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Diego Co., Jepson 8496; Escondido, San Diego Co., C. V. Meyer 226; San Pasqual Valley, San 

 Diego Co., Jepson 19,179 ; La Junta near Jamul, Newlon 341. 



Refs. — Phacelia cicutaria Greene, Pitt. 5:20 (1902), type loc. Knights Ferry, Stanislaus 

 Co., F. W. Bancroft (typ. vidi). P. hispida var. cicutaria Mebr., Contrib. Gray Herb. 49:28 

 (1917); Jepson, Man. 823 (1925). P. hispida subvar. cicutaria Brand, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 

 4:215 (1912); Engler, Pflzr. 42":87 (1913). P. heterosepala Greene, Pitt. 5:21 (1902), type 

 loc. Iron Canon, Butte Co., Austin. P. hispida subvar. heterosepala Brand, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 

 4:215 (1912). P. hispida var. heterosepala Voss, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 33:173 (1935). Var. helio- 

 phila Jepson. P. hispida var. heliophila Mcbr., Contrib. Gray Herb. 49:29 (1917), type loc. 

 Sunset, Kern Co., Heller 7730. P. vallis-mortae var. heliophila Voss, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 33:176 

 (1935). Var. HISPIDA Jepson. P. ramo^issima var. ?(isp!(/a Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10:319 (1875), 

 based on material from "Santa Barbara to San Diego." P. hispida Gray, Syn. Fl. 2:161 (1878), 

 "Santa Barbara to San Diego," Nuttall; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 341 (1911), Man. 823 

 (1925) ; not P. hispida Buckley, Proc. Acad. PhUa. 1861:463 (1862). P. eximia Eastw., Bull. 

 Torr. Club 32 : 304 (1905), type "loc. Mt. Wilson, Grinnell. P. hispida var. eximia Voss, Bull. S. Cal. 

 Acad. 33:172 (1935). 



26. P. cryptantha Greene. Limestone Phacelia. Stems widely branched 

 from the base, diffusely decumbent and forming a low rounded plant 4 to 9 inches 

 high and 2 to 3 times as broad, rather dense and of "soft" appearance; herbage 

 thinly set with spreading bristles; leaf-blades li/4 to 2% inches long, piunately 

 divided into 5 to 7 divisions or leaflets, these elliptic to round-obovate, crenate, 4 to 

 9 lines long, the lower ones discrete and distinctly petiolulate ; petioles i/o to mostly 

 as long or longer than the blade ; upper leaves similar to the lower, or small and 

 merely toothed or 3-lobed or -divided ; racemes 3 to 4 inches long in fruit, not very 

 dense, the pedicels 1% to 21,^ lines long; calyx-lobes narrow-oblanceolate or spatu- 

 late, rather densely set with long white spreading bristles or in early anthesis often 

 tufted with bristles on lower part, accrescent in fruit and 4 to 5 lines long ; corolla 

 white or pale lavender, tubular-campanulate, 2 lines long, shorter than or not ex- 

 ceeding the cah'x ; scales semi-ovate, wholly adnate, inserted in upper part of tube 

 proper, at base narrowly joined in pairs to filament ; stamens esserted from the 

 corolla-throat, a little shorter than the corolla-lobes ; capsule globose, % as long 

 as fruiting sepals ; seeds 4, irregularly foveolate. 



Arid mountain slopes, mostly desert ranges, 4000 to 5000 feet : southern Sierra 

 Nevada in Fresno Co. ; Inyo Co. ; western Colorado Desert. East to Arizona. May. 



Field note. — Phacelia cryptantha was discovered in the Panamint Range by the Death Valley 

 Expedition. The botanist of the expedition, F. V. Coville, described it as Phacelia hispida var. 

 brachyantha. In its prevailing and most characteristic form it is shortly branched, low and dense, 

 always very much broader than high, the herbage tender. It is, thus, in aspect and habit, as a 

 distinctive desert type, remotely different from the tall erect sparingly branched plant, Phacelia 

 hispida Gray, of cismontane California, which is now, by reason of a prior homonym, to take the 

 name, P. cicutaria var. hispida (Gray). 



In Phacelia cryptantha the corollas are shorter than the calyx or only equaling it. Excised 

 promptly after anthesis, and aging sordid or sometimes purplish, they cling to the ealjx for a 

 period and thus give an appearance of exceeding the calyx in length. The calyces at base are so 

 densely hispid that such tufts of hairs appear, in the field, like woolly spots. 



Locs. — S. Sierra Nevada: Tehipite Vallev, Fresno Co., Hall 4" Chandler 481. Inyo Co.: Lone 

 Pine Creek, Alabama Hills, EaJl ^ Chandler 7182 ; Cottonwood Caiion, Death Valley, Gilman 4056 ; 

 Hanaupah Caiion, Panamint Range, Jepson 7079; Johnson Caiion, Panamint Range, Jepson 

 19,591. Eastern Mohave Desert : Granite Mts., s. of Avawatz Mts., Jepson 17,304 ; Willow Springs 

 Canon, Old Dad Mts., Jepson 20,441 ; Chukar Caiion, Providence Mts., Mary Beal 804. Western 

 Colorado Desert: Indian Caiion, Collins Valley, ne. San Diego Co., Jepson 8852. 



Refs.— Phacelia cryptantha Greene, Pitt. 5:21 (1902) ; Jepson, Man. 824 (1925). P. his- 

 pida var. brachyantha Cov., Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4:158 (1893), type loc. Surprise Canon, 

 Panamint Mts., Funston 607. P. cryptantha var. derivata Voss, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 33:174 (1935), 

 type loc. Shepherd Caiion, Argus Range (not "Panamint Range"), Jones. P. eremica Jepson, 

 Man. 823 (1925), type loc. Collins Valley, ne. San Diego Co., Jepson 8852. 



27. P. ciliata Bentli. (Fig. 404.) Stem branched at and above the base, 9 to 

 14 inches high, the branches few, rather simple, stout, ascending ; herbage scabrous- 

 pubescent ; leaf -blades oblong or ovate in outline, 1 to 3 inches long, pinnately di- 



