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Ref . — Phacelia nashiana Jepson ; type loc. Nine-mile Canon, sw. Inyo Co., Charlotte Nash 

 Smith 160 (typ. in Herbario Jepsoniano). 



55. P. longipes Torr. Stems erect or ascending, branching at or above the 

 base, hirsute or hirsutulous with spreading haii-s, 3 to 15 inches high; herbage 

 densely glandular throughout ; leaf -blades ovate or orbicular, cordate at base, usu- 

 ally rounded at apex, coarsely and obtusely crenate, V2 to 1% inches long ; petioles 

 mostly much longer; racemes loose, the pedicels subhorizontally spreading and 

 curved, becoming 2 to 7 lines (or even to 2i/4 inches) long ; calyx-lobes linear, 2 to 



3 lines long; corolla sordid- white, open-campanulate, usually parted to the middle, 



4 to 6 lines long ; scales none; stamens slightly pilose at or near the base, little longer 

 than the corolla ; filaments nai-rowly deltoid-dilated or ovately dilated at base ; style 

 pilose, deeply 2-clef t ; ovules about 5 to 8 to each placenta ; seeds thickly punctate. 



Gravelly slopes or rock slides in the mountains, 3000 to 7500 feet : coastal South- 

 ern California from Santa Barbara Co. to the San Gabriel Mts. May-Aug. 



Loes. — Santa Barbara Co., Torrey. Northern Los Angeles Co. : Eiehardson Canon near Saw- 

 mill Mt., Davy 2492. San Gabriel Mts.: Eock Creek, Parish 1979; Pacoima Canon, Feirson 381; 

 Mt. Wilson, Davidson; Cucamonga Peak, Parish 441 ; Coldwater Canon, San Antonio Mts., Abrams 

 2711 ; Lytle Creek Canon, Sail 900. The above cited collections appear to be of two races, one 

 (a) with coarse stems, very glandular herbage and thick leaves (represented by mts. n. of Clare- 

 mont, C. F. Baker 5318), the other (b) with slender stems, less glandular herbage and thin leaves 

 (represented by Icehouse Caiion, San Antonio Mts., Parish 11,950). 



Kefs. — Phacelia longipes Torr.; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10:322 (1875), type loc. Santa 

 Barbara Co., Torrey; Jepson, Man. 818 (1925). P. oordifolia Wats.; Brand in Engler, Pflzr. 

 4=51:72 (1913). 



56. P. minor Thell. California Blue Bells. Stem erect, simple or branching, 

 hispid with short spreading hairs, % to 2 feet high; herbage glandular-viscid 

 throughout; leaf -blades broadly or round-ovate, cordate or truncatish at base, 

 coarsely and sometimes doubly serrate, strigose, 1 to 2% inches long, the lower long- 

 petioled, the upper short-petioled or nearly sessile; racemes elongated; pedicels 

 horizontally or sub-horizontally spreading, the lower i/4 to li/i inches long, usually 

 curved ; caljrx-lobes linear, 4 lines long ; corolla blue or purple, broadly long-tubular, 

 the tube a little ventricose, rounded at base, as broad or even a little broader below 

 than above (that is at the throat) , % to li/i inches long, 3 to 5 lines broad, the limb 



5 lines to 12 lines broad ; stamens usually exceeding the corolla ; filaments with an 

 oblong hairy dilation at base. 



Loamy or gravelly soil of valley flats, mesas and arid foothill slopes, 800 to 3000 

 (or 5250) feet : coastal Southern California from the Santa Monica Mts. to the San 

 Jacinto Mts. and south to San Diego Co. ; northwest arm of the Colorado Desert. 

 Apr.-May. 



Locs. — Coastal S. Cal. : Mandeville Canon, Santa Monica Mts., CloTcey 4" Templeton 4532; 

 San Gabriel Canon, San Gabriel Mts., C. E. Eutchinson; San Bernardino Valley (e. end), Jepson 

 556G; Riverside, Jepson 1213; Chalk Hill, Mt. San Jacinto, C. V. Meyer 754; Anaheim plain, 

 Orange Co., Alice King ; Trabuco Caiion, Santa Ana Mts., Wolf 1830; Elsinore (hUls 5 mi. n.), 

 Jepson 12,435; Aguanga, sw. Riverside Co., Jepson 17,158; Fallbrook, nw. San Diego Co., Cleve- 

 land; Oak Grove Valley, e. San Diego Co., Jepson 17,152. Colorado Desert: Mission Creek, nw. 

 arm of ConchiUa Desert, Clary 1611 ; Andreas Canon, San Jacinto Mts., Neivlon 444. 



Refs. — Phacelia minoe Thell., Berichte Bayer. Bot. Gesell. 14:79 (1914) ; Jepson, Man. 819 

 (1925). Whitlavia minor Harvey; Hook., Lend. Jour. Bot. 5:312, t. 12 (1846), type from Cal., 

 Coulter 493. P. whitlavia f. minor Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4=''':71 (1913). Whitlavia grandiflora 

 Harvey, I.e. 5:312, 1. 11 (1846), type from Cal., Coulter 492; not P. grandiflora Gray. P. whitlavia 

 Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10:322 (1875) ; Brand in Engler, Pflzr. 4=5i:69 (1913) ;" Jepson, Fl. W. 

 Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 341 (1911). P. minor var. whitlavia Mcbr., Contrib. Gray Herb. 49:24 (1917). 

 P. whitlavia var. jonesii i. heterostyla Brand, I.e. 71, type loc. Pasadena, Jones 3031 ; f . gracillima 

 Brand, I.e., type loc. FaUbrook, San Diego Co., Jones 3099. 



57. P. campanularia Gray. Desert Blue Bells. Stem branching from the 

 base, 1 to 2 feet high, glandular-hispid with spreading liairs and puberulent (as 

 also the racemes) ; leaf-blades round-ovate, dentate, cordate or truncatish at base, 



