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glandular ; leaf-blades broadly oblong or ovate, pinnatifid, 5 to 12 lines long, nar- 

 rowed to a petiole; racemes short (V2 to 1% or 2 inches long), the flowers a little 

 crowded ; pedicels % to I/2 as long as the cah-x ; corolla orange, 2% to 3 lines long, 

 1% to 2 times as long as the calyx, minutely hirsutulous outside. 



Sandy clay soil of valleys and plateau plains, 4000 to 5000 feet : Lassen Co. 

 Western Nevada to eastern Oregon. June-July. 



Locs. — Earendale, Keck 4' Clausen 3736; Madeline Plains, C. C. Bruce 2198; Secret Valley, 

 Applegate 8912. 



Refs. — MiLTiTZiA LUTEA A. DC, Prodr. 9:296 (1845). Eutoca luiea H. & A., Bot. Beech. 

 373 (1840), type loc. "Snake Fort, Snake Country," Ida., Tolmie. Emmenantlie lutea Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. 10:329 (1875). Emmenanthe glanduHfera Torr. ; Wats., Bot. King 257 (1S71), type 

 loc. Virginia Jits., Nev., Watson 885. U. glandulifera Hel., Muhl. 8:20 (1912) ; Jepson, Man. 

 830 (1925). M. glandulifera var. californica Brand, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 4:224 (1912), type 

 loc. Madeline Plains, Lassen Co., Bruce. 



2. M. inyoensis Mcbr. Stems few from the base, diffuse or trailing, 1 to 2% 

 inches long; herbage and calyces minutely spreading-liispidulous; leaf-blades ob- 

 long, 2 to 5 lines long, usually sinuately 5-lobed, the lobes obtuse, on petioles 1 to 3 

 times as long ; racemes loose, % to II/2 inches long, the pedicels filiform, i/o to as 

 long as calyx, retrocurved ; calj'x 1 to II/2 lines long, nearty as long as the corolla 

 (in early anthesis) ; fruiting calyx 2 to 2% lines long; corolla yellow. 



Dry peat bogs in the foothills, 4500 to 5500 feet : western Inyo Co. May. 



Locs. — Bishop ; Big Pine, K. Brandegee. 



Refs. — MiLTiTZiA INYOENSIS Mcbr., Contrib. Gray Herb. 49:41 (1917), type loc. Bishop (foot- 

 hills w.), Inyo Co., Eeller 8324; Jepson, Man. 831 (1925). 



8. EMMENANTHE Benth. 



Annuals, similar to Phacelia. Leaves pinnately cleft to divided (rarely merely 

 toothed). Flowers soon pendulous, borne on filiform pedicels about as long. Corolla 

 cream-color or yellow, campanulate, persistent ; scales none. Stamens included. 

 Ovary 2-celled by the meeting of the placentae in center, the placentae wing-like or 

 lamellate and borne on the half-partitions at right angles ; ovules 4 to 8 to each cell, 

 attached beneath the placental wings. Style shortly cleft at apex, deciduous. Cap- 

 sule compressed, 2-celled or by reason of the placental wings imperfectly 4-celIed. — 

 Species 1. (Greek emmeno, to abide, and anthos, flower, the corolla not deciduous.) 



1. E. penduliflora Benth. "Whispering Bells. (Fig. 406.) Stem erect, usu- 

 ally much branched from the base, 8 to 21 inches high ; herbage villous-pubeseent 

 and somewhat viscid ; leaf-blades % to 4 inches long, sessile or subsessUe, only the 

 lower petioled, the lobes numerous, short, entire or sometimes toothed ; racemes 

 loose, straight, ascending, panicled at summit of the stem ; corolla 4 to 5 lines long, 

 the glabrous filaments adnate to the very base ; ovary short-bristly and stipitate- 

 glandular ; seeds conspicuously pitted in somewhat regular lines. 



Open or chaparral slopes, frequent on "burns," 10 to 6000 feet : Coast Eanges 

 from Tehama Co. to San Luis Obispo Co. ; Tehachapi Mts. ; Sierra Nevada foothills 

 from Amador Co. to Kern Co. ; Inyo Co. ; Mohave and Colorado deserts ; cismon- 

 tane Southern California. South to Lower California, east to Arizona. Mar. -July. 



Geog. note. — Widely distributed in a great variety of climatic and physical areas, Emme- 

 nanthe penduliflora is found almost throughout the mountain region of cismontane California, 

 and in both of the large deserts and in the transmontane deserts of Inyo County and in those of 

 Arizona. In the North Coast Range of Mendocino County it grows within five miles of the borders 

 of the Redwood belt near Ukiah, a coastal climate ; it inhabits the west slopes of the Sierra Nevada 

 in Amador county, a dry interior climate; and in favorable seasons it develops luxuriantly in the 

 arid wastes of the western Colorado Desert, and also in the Granite Mountains, which lie to the 

 south of the Avawatz Mountains in the northeastern Mohave Desert. Notwithstanding its vride 

 range, it is remarkable for its constancy in habit and in morphological features. Throughout all 

 these many habitats and varied combinations of topography and climate it preserves its charac- 

 ters with remarkable uniformity, because as an annual it adapts itself rather readily to the moisture 



