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lines long; corolla lilac or pale purple, turbinate-canipanulate, 3 to 6 lines long, 

 4 to 7 lines broad ; scales semi-ovate or semi-lanceolate, widest near the middle and 

 wholly adnate ; style 2-eleft at apex, hairy below ; ovary densely clothed with long 

 straight erect yellowish hairs; ovules 12 to 24 to each dilated placenta; capside 

 ovate, mucronate ; seeds retieulate-foveolate. 



Sandy soil of valleys, low hills or coastal dunes, 20 to 2000 (or 4000) feet : Coast 

 Ranges from San Francisco and Contra Costa Cos. to San Luis Obispo Co. ; San 

 Joaquin Valle.y; southern Sierra Nevada footliills from Tnlare Co. to Kern Co.; 

 Tehachapi Mts. ; cismontane Southern California from Santa Barbara Co. to Santa 

 Catalina Island and tlie San Gabriel and San Bernardino valleys. Mar. -May. 



Field note. — The habit and aspect of this species are suggestive of Nemophila meuziesii. The 

 flowers are sometimes showy, sometimes small, a variability frequently characteristic of Phacelia 

 annuals. In general the leaves are rather finely (though often unequally) pinnately lobed or 

 divided, but sometimes, as in the inner Coast Range, they are very large and merely coarsely 

 toothed (Alcalde, sw. Fresno Co., T. Brandegee). 



Locs. — South Coast Ranges: Lake Merced, San Francisco Co., Michener 4" Bioletti; Castro- 

 ville, n. Monterey Co., K. Brandegee ; Seaside sta., Monterey Bay, Heller 6566; Mission Soledad, 

 Salinas Valley, Jepson 8434; North Fork Lewis Creek (n. of Priest Valley), se. Monterey Co., 

 Jepson 2677 ; Cholame, San Luis Obispo Co., Jepson 16,188 ; Paso Robles, Barber; Arroyo Grande, 

 San Luis Obispo Co., Alice King; Cuyama Valley, se. San Luis Obispo Co., Ferris 9136; Midoil 

 (2 mi. sw.). Temblor Range, Johannsen. San Joaquin Valley: Oakley, ne. Contra Costa Co.; 

 Chowchilla (8 mi. w.), Madera Co., Hoover 526; Huron, Fresno Co., T. Brandegee ; Tulare, Davy 

 3104; Porterville, Tulare Co., L. Donnely ; Bakersfield, Davy 1743. Sierra Nevada foothills in 

 Tulare and Kern Cos. : Success, South Fork Tule River, Kech 4" Clausen 3202 ; Poso Creek, Green- 

 horn Mts., C. N. Smith 297; Cottonwood Creek, ne. of Bakersfield, Allison Krames. Tehachapi 

 Mts.: Caliente, K. Brandegee; Tejon Hills, Keclc 4" Clausen 3178. Cismontane S. Cal. : Santa 

 Maria, n. Santa Barbara Co., Jepson 19,099; Elizabeth Lake, n. Los Angeles Co., Hall 3063; 

 Santa Catalina Isl., K. Brandegee ; Playa del Rey near Los Angeles; San Bernardino, Lemmon; 

 Wineville, near Riverside, Mnnz 4' Harwood 3834. On account of the broad calyx-lobes and small 

 corollas the last four stations represent intergrades to var. cryptantha. 



Var. petrophlla Jepson. Leaf -blades entire or some with 1, rarely 2, coarse teeth on each 

 side below the middle; coroOa scales almost obsolete. — Corral Hollow, Mt. Hamilton Range. 



Var. cryptantha Brand. Stems diffuse or spreading, leafless or nearly so (the leaves all 

 or mostly basal), bearing flowers from near the base or above the middle, the flowers distant; 

 pedicels short, Yi to 1 (or 3) lines long; calyx-lobes broadly spatulate, inclined to curve outward; 

 corolla small, equaling the calyx or little exceeding it (1 to 1% times as long). — Cismontane 

 Southern California: Los Angeles coast (Redondo, Geis) to the San Bernardino Valley (Riverside, 

 C. M. Wilder 873) and western San Diego Co. (San Diego River, Cleveland). South to Lower 

 California. 



Refs.— Phacelia douglash Torr., Bot. Mex. Bound. 143 (1859); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 

 436 (1901), ed. 2,340 (1911), Man. 826, excluding fig. 793 (1925). Euloca douglasHBenth., Trains. 

 Linn. Soc. 17:276 (1835), type from Cal., Douglas. P. douglasii f. modesta Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 

 4-^^:114 (1913), type loc. North Fork Lewis Creek, se. Monterey Co., Jepson 2677 (a small- 

 flowered form, more common southward). Var. petkophila Jepson, Man. 826 (1925), type loc. 

 Corral Hollow, w. San Joaquin Co., Mt. Hamilton Range, Jepson 9583. Var. cryptantha Brand, 

 I.e., tj'pe loc. San Diego, Jones 3085; Jepson, Man. 826 (1925). P. palmeri Vasey & Rose, Proe. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. 11:532 (1888), type loc. San Quentin, L. Cal., Palmer; not P. palmeri Wats. 

 (1871). P. stellaris Brand, I.e. 123, a new name for P. palmeri Vasey & Rose. 



35. P. curvipes Torr. Stems few to many from the base, diffuse or ascending, 

 11/^ to 5 (or 7) inches high ; herbage pubescent ; leaf-blades obloug-obovate to oblong, 

 oblong-oblanceolate or linear, mainly entire (or sometimes a few basal coarsely and 

 ineisely few-toothed), 14 to % (or II/2) inches long, the petioles i/4 to as long; 

 racemes simple, rather lax ; pedicels 1 to 2 lines long, curved or retrocurved in age ; 

 corolla blue (sometimes lavender or white), campanulate, 2 to 3 or 5 lines long, 

 shorter than or exceeding (sometimes twice as long as) the linear or (in fruit) 

 ligulate-spatulate calyx-lobes ; corolla-scales narrow, wholly adnate, truucatish at 

 apex, joined in pairs at base of filament and diverging upward; stamens half as 

 long as the corolla, a little hairy ; ovary densely hairy with erect hairs ; style cleft 

 % to %, a little hairy below ; capsule ovate, acuminate, erect upon the spreading or 

 deflexed pedicel ; seeds 6 to 16, areolate with a deep pit in center of each areola. 



