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10. P. breweri Gray. (Fig. 401.) Stem simple and erect or diffusely branch- 

 ing from the base, 4 to 9 inches high, the branches slender and with rather long inter- 

 nodes ; herbage pallid, the stems hirsute and microscopically puberulent, the leaves 

 strigose ; leaf -blades oblong-lanceolate, entire or cleft towards the base, or the lower- 

 most and basal pinnately divided, V2 to 1^/2 inches long, on petioles 1 to 5 lines long ; 

 racemes slender, lax or sometimes dense, 1 to 3 inches long, often geminate at the 

 ends of the branches; calyx-lobes linear, bristly-hirsute; corolla blue or whitish, 

 2 to 21/^ lines long, its scales narrow, acute at apex, wholly adnate ; stamens gla- 

 brous, included; style cleft %; capsule ovate, short-acuminate, mostly 1-seeded. 



Dry slopes, often on land slides, 600 to 

 4000 feet: inner South Coast Range from 

 eastern Contra Costa Co. to San Benito Co. 

 Apr. -July. 



Locs. — Mt. Diablo, Jepson 9656 ; Hospital Ca- 

 iion, w. Stanislaus Co., Hoover 3074; Mt. Day, E. J. 

 Smith; Mt. Hamilton, Jepson 4207; Panoche Pass, 

 e. San Benito Co., KecTc ^ StocTcwell 3357; New 

 Idria, San Benito Co., Eastwood. 



Eefs. — Phacelia bkeweri Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. 10:317 (1875), type loc. Mt. Diablo, Brewer 

 1058; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 439 (1901), ed. 2, 

 342 (1911), Man. 821, fig. 788 (1925). 



Fig. 401. Phacelia breweri Gray, a, fl. 

 branchlet, X 1 ; b, leaf, X 1 ; c, long. sect, 

 of fl., X 3 ; d, long. sect, of ovary, X 6. 



11. P. lobata (Dav.) Jepson comb. n. 

 Stems erectly branched from the base, lyn 

 to 4 inches high, or sometimes diffuse!}^ 

 branched with branches 10 inches long; 

 herbage hirsute with spreading or ascending 

 more or less glandular hairs; leaf -blades 

 lanceolate, 4 to 7 lines long (or to II/2 inches 

 long) , entire or the lower ones incised or few- 

 toothed towards the base ; racemes slender, 

 terminal and also on axillary peduncles from 

 near the base, Y2 to 1 inch long ; pedicels 14, 

 to 2% lines long, in fruit a little cur\'ed or 

 even retrocurved; calyx-lobes linear-oblan- 

 ceolate, hirsute, unequal ; corolla white, cam- 

 panulatp, I14 lines long, slightly exceeding 



the calyx-lobes ; scales linear-oblong, diverging from base of filament and approxi- 

 mating scale of contiguous pair, these two scales then becoming vertical and 

 connivent, truncatish at apex; stamens included, glabrous; style cleft i/^ to %, 

 slightly hairy at base ; ovules 2 to each placenta ; capsule 4-seeded, the seeds pitted- 

 foveolate. 



Dry montane slopes, 4000 to 7000 feet : San Gabriel Mts., mostly north slope; 

 Sierra Nevada in Kern Co. May-June. 



Locs. — San Gabriel Mts. : near Rock Creek divide, Feirson 2486 ; Icehouse Canon, San Antonio 

 Mts., Feirson 506 ; Lytle Creek Caiion, BaU 1459. Kern Co. : Erskine Creek, Furpus 5292. 



Refs. — Phacelia LOBATA Jepson. P. hnmilis var. lobata Dav., Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 5:61 (1907), 

 type loc. Lowell Mine, head of Rock Creek, San Gabriel Mts., Basse # Davidson 1941. 



12. P. eisenii T. Bdg. Stems slender, branched from base (or sometimes 

 simple), erect or diffuse, lYo to 7 inches high; herbage short-hirsute and somewhat 

 glandular; leaf-blades lanceolate to oblong to elliptic, entire or serrate or incisely 

 few-lobed, 4 to 8 lines long, narrowed to a petiole half to as long; racemes loose, 

 not scorpioid. the flowers on slender spreading pedicels Y^ to lYo lines long; calj^s- 

 lobes narrowly spatulate, moderately unequal. 1 to 1^,^ lines long; corolla blue' or 

 dull white, hairy at base inside, % to 1% lines long, the scales short, wholly adnate 



