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Mountain slopes and canons, 1000 to 3000 feet : desert slopes San Gabriel Mts. ; 

 west side of the Colorado Desert. South into Lower California, east to Arizona 

 and Utah. Apr.-May. 



Locs. — San Gabriel Mts.: Arrastre Caiion, Peirson 410. Eastern San Diego Co.: Grapevine 

 Spr., T. Brandegee ; San Felipe Valley, Jepson 17,126; Jacumba, T. Brandegee. 



Eefs.— Phacelia atfinis Gray, Syn. Fl. ed. 2, 2:417 (1886), type loc. mts. of n. L. Cal., 

 Orcutt; Jepson, Man. 829 (1925). P. rugnlosa Lemmon; Greene, Pitt. 1:175 (1888), type from 

 L. Cal., Lemmon (near Ensenada per Lemmon Herb.). 



60. P. fremontii Torr. (Fig. 405.) Stems few to many from the base, diffuse 

 or ascending, 6 to 12 inches high ; herbage rather densely pubescent, the inflores- 

 cence and calyces glandular; leaf-blades oblong in 

 outline, ^ to 2i/^ inches long, the divisions or lobes 

 oblong or obovate, entire or sometimes few-toothed or 

 few-cleft, y^ to 4 lines long, often with smaller lobes 

 between ; basal leaves long-petioled, upper short- 

 petioled or almost sessile ; flowers in spike-like racemes, 

 the pedicels % line long; corolla broadly funnelform 

 or campanulate, lilac-blue or violet, with yellow throat, 

 5 to 7 lines long, 2 times as long as the spatulate calyx- 

 lobes ; scales narrow, wholly adnate to corolla and free 

 from the filaments or none ; filaments glabrous ; seeds 

 transversely or somewhat spirally ridged and with 

 longitudinal reticulations. 



Sandy soil of plains, caiions and desert mesas, or 

 on alkaline flats, 200 to 7400 feet : inner South Coast 

 Range from western San Joaquin Co. to northeastern 

 Santa Barbara Co. ; San Joaquin Valley from Fresno 

 Co. to Kern Co. ; Tehachapi Mts. ; southern Sierra Ne- 

 vada in Kern Co. ; Inyo Co. ; Mohave Desert and its 

 bordering ranges on the west ; northern Colorado Des- 

 ert. East to Utah and Arizona. Mar.-June. 



Locs. — Inner South Coast Eange: Corral Hollow, w. San 

 Joaquin Co., Hoover 3032 ; Alcalde, sw. Fresno Co., T. Brande- 

 gee; Elkhorn Scarp, Temblor Eange, se. San Luis Obispo Co., 

 Jepson 16,225 ; Cuyama Valley, ne. Santa Barbara Co., Afvm 

 13,620. San Joaquin Valley: Kerman (9 mi. s.), Hoover 1778; 

 Mendota plain (6 mi. s. of Mendota), Jepson 16,990; Huron, 

 Fresno Co., T. Brandegee ; Bakersfield, Allison Krames. Te- 

 hachapi Mts.: Keene sta., K. Brandegee. Southern Sierra Ne- 

 vada in Kern Co.: Long Tom Mines, Greenhorn Mts., C. N'. 

 Smith 253; Piute Mts., C. N. Smith 169. East side of Sierra 

 Nevada: Honey Lake, Lassen Co., T. Brandegee ; Red Rock, se. 

 Lassen Co., BlanhinsMp ; near Mono Lake, Ottley 1051 ; Bishop, 

 Almeda Nordytce; Alabama Hills, near Lone Pine, Renner 57; 



pass betw. Inyo Mts. and Coso Mts., Jepson 19,540; Darivin, Renner 30; Hanaupah Canon, Pana- 

 mint Mts., Jepson 6973a ; Gold Valley, Black Mts., L. Saylor 274. Mohave Desert and its westerly 

 bordering ranges: Frazier Mt. (3 mi. se.), n. Ventura Co., Nordstrom 433; Arrastre Creek, San 

 Gabriel Mts., Peirson 400; Lancaster, Clokey 4" Templeton 4655; Cajon Pass, Jepson 17,166; 

 Byrne's Spr., San Bernardino Mts., Parish 2960; Eandsburg, Eeller 7687; Red Rock Canon, w. 

 end El Paso Mts., Allison Krames; Hawes sta., Jepson 15,550; Barstow, Jepson 5378; Coolgardie 

 Tucca Mesa (n. of Calico Mts.), Jepson 6628; Ord Mt., Jepson 5887; Old Dad Mts. (mesa near), 

 Jepson 20,506; Cedar Caiion, Mid Hills, Providence Mts., Jepson 18,333 ; New York Mts., Jepson 

 5449. Northern Colorado Desert: Dead Indian TraU (15 mi. w. of Indio), ConchiUa Desert, Clary 

 861; Deep Caiion, Santa Rosa Mts., Yates 6474. 



Refs. — Phacelia rREMONTil Torr. Bot. Ives 21 (1860), type loc. Tampai Valley, Coconino 

 Co., Ariz., Ives; Jepson, Man. 829, fig. 793 (not P. "douglasii"), (1925). P. hallii Brand, Beitr. 

 Hydroph. 8 (1911), type loc. Swartout Canon, San Antonio Mts., Ball 1264; Jepson, Man. 830 

 (1925) ; this is the equivalent of the small-flowered form of P. fremontii which is common in Nev. 

 and Utah; the type. Hall 1264 (Swartout Canon), in every detail of pubescence, leaves, racemes 

 and flowers, is exactly like Hall 1494 (true P. fremontii, Swartout Canon), save in size of corolla; 



Fig. 405. Phacelia tremon- 

 Tii Torr. a, habit, X 1 ; 6, 

 stamen and scales, X 5 ; c, 

 cross-sect, of ovary, X 6. 



