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2. E. micrantha Eel. Stems erect, slender, branching from the base, slightly 

 glandular-pubescent or subglabrous, 3 to 10 inches high ; leaf -blades oblong in out- 

 line, 1/2 to 1 inch long, pinnately parted, the lobes entire or rarely 1-toothed ; lower 

 leaves "petioled, the upper auriculate-dilated at the sessile base; racemes several- 

 flowered, sub-paniculate ; corolla white or purple, deeply bowl-shaped, 1 to l^/^ 

 lines long, the lobes orbicular or transversely quadratish, obtuse or emarginate, the 

 throat with a yellowish spot between the filaments ; stamens unequal, 3 longer ; 

 seeds 6 to 21, transversely corrugated, mostly 

 borne on the face of the placentae, usually 1 

 or 2 behind each placenta. 



Moist rock crevices or under scrub in des- 

 ert caiions, 300 to 7500 feet : Inyo Co. ; eastern 

 Mohave Desert; Colorado Desert. East to 

 Utah and Texas, south to Mexico. Apr.-May. 



Locs. — Inyo Co.: Argus Eange (n. end), Jepson 

 19,556 ; Johnson Canon, Panamint Range, Jepson 

 19,603; Bradbury Well, s. end Black Mts., Peirson 

 7785. Mohave Desert: near Bicycle Lake, Tiefort 

 Mt., Jepson 20,344; WDlow Spring Caiion, Old Dad 

 Mts., Jepson 20,444; Goffs, Newlon 534. Colorado 

 Desert: Palm Caiion, San Jacinto Mts., Newlon 453; 

 La Quiuta Caiion, Coachella (7 mi. w.). Clary 1615; 

 Vallecito, e. San Diego Co., Jepson 8581. 



Eef s. — Edcbypta micrantha Hel., Muhl. 2 : 163 

 (1906). Phacelia micraniha Torr., Bot. Mex. Bound. 

 144 (1859), type loc. El Paso, Tex., Bigelow. Ellisia 

 micrantha Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 42°i:42 (1913) ; Jep- 

 son, Man. 815 (1925). Macrocalyx micrantlnis Cov., 

 Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4:157 (1893). Nyctelea 

 micrantha Woot. & Sta., Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 

 19:535 (1915). 



5. DRAPERIA Torr. 



Fig. 398. Draperia systtla Torr. 

 a, portion of fl. stem, X V2 ; b, long. sect, 

 of fl., X IVa ; c, capsule, X 2. 



Low diffuse perennial herb with slender 

 stems and opposite entire leaves. Flowers in a 



terminal cyme, its branches consisting of unilateral racemes. Calyx-segments 

 linear, elongated in fruit. Corolla pale lavender, tubular-funnelform, without 

 scales. Stamens unequal and unequally inserted low on the corolla-tube, included. 

 Ovary 2-celled, the ovules in each cell 2, pendulous. Style long, filiform, 2-cleft at 

 apex. Capsule subglobose. — Species 1. (J. W. Draper, American historian.) 



1. D. systyla Torr. (Fig. 398.) Stems few or several, 4 to 7 (or 16) inches 

 long, arising from the horizontal rooting branches of a large root-crown ; herbage 

 silky-hirsute; leaf-blades ovate, entire, % to 1% inches long, shortly petioled; 

 corolla pubescent outside, 5 to 6 lines long; filaments slightly hairy on lower half; 

 ovary densely hairy. 



Loose loam soil of pine woods and crevices in rocky walls or on talus drift, often 

 forming colonies a few feet broad, 3500 to 6000 feet : Sierra Nevada from eastern 

 Siskiyou Co. to Tulare Co. ; North Coast Ranges in Trinity Co. June-July. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada: Shasta Sprs., Siskiyou Co., Jepson 20,995; Blue Caiion, Placer Co., 

 H. A. Walker 1361; HetchHetchy, A. L. Grant 810; Nevada Fall, Yosemite, Jepson 3138a; 

 Sequoia Lake, near Millwood, H. P. Kelley ; Giant Forest, W. Fry 328 ; Cedar Creek, Tulare Co., 

 Jepson 602; Garfield Forest, South Fork Kaweah Kiver, Jepson; South Fork Middle Tule Eiver, 

 Jepson. Trinity Co. : Noble's ranch, New Eiver, Jepson; Devils Backbone, betw. Salmon Summit 

 and Trinity Summit, Jepson 2070. 



Eefs. — Draperia systtla Torr.; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7:401 (1868); Jepson, Man. 815 

 (1925). Nama systylum Gray, I.e. 6:37 (1866), type from Cal., Lobb 164. T). systyla var. minor 

 Brand, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 4:214 (1912), type loc. Coffee Creek, Trinity Co., Eall 8545. 



