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sions rounded and tube as long as the calyx. Stamens and style 

 much exserted, the former clothed with white hairs. Pod hispid, 

 ovate-acuminate ; seeds 4, brown, deeply pitted. 



Near this is another form with canescent foliage, strongly 

 veined, acuminate leaves, which are densely clustered at the 

 base of the stem ; spikes terminal and axillary of closely imbri- 

 cated flowers, smaller in all their parts than the preceding ; calyx 

 divisions densely hispid and acute, equaling the tubular corolla, 

 surpassing the rounded pod. The flowers are sessile and the 

 spikes elongate but little ; otherwise the same as the preceding. 

 These were both collected on Bubbs Creek trail. 



Phacelia sp. Leaves all simple, elliptical, acute, forming a 

 tuft at base ; petioles equaling the blade, together 1-3 in. long. 

 Stems almost without leaves ; spikes panicled, peduncled. 

 Flowers crowded on pedicels half as long as the calyx, slender. 

 Divisions of the calyx elliptical ovate, not veiny, pubescent and 

 hispid with long, stiff, marginal bristles. Corolla whitish, veiny, 

 tubular, surpassing the calyx ; the divisions rounded. Bubbs 

 Creek. 



Phacelia sp. Leaves all basal, the upper leaflet elliptical, 

 acute, the lateral lobes adherent for their entire length and 

 tapering, so that they are cordate wedge-shaped in outline, ca- 

 nescent and hispid ; panicle with 2-3 spreading branches. Flowers 

 on short pedicels ; calyx with ovate, lanceolate divisions, veiny 

 and hispid, surpassing the whitish corolla and the pod. Bubbs 

 Creek. Phacelia viutabilis as well as the form that follows 

 might all be included under P. circinata. The material is not 

 sufl&cient for satisfactory determination. It is very desirable that 

 all the forms of this exceedingly variable group of species be 

 collected in ample specimens. 



Phacelia stimulans Eastwood. Stinging Phacelia. 

 Stems tall, from a branched caudex, becoming 2-3 feet high ; 

 erect, with few leaves on the stem, those at base in a tuft ; viscid 

 pubescent throughout and clothed with stinging hairs. Spikes 

 loosely panicled, simple or forked, horizontally spreading. Divi- 

 sions of the calyx oblong-spatulate, hispid, net-veined, shorter 

 than the whitish corolla, surpassing the pod. Corolla tubular, 

 with the lobes coming together in fruit and persisting, held 

 to the calyx by the tangled stamens and style which are long 

 exserted and the latter conspicuously white woolly. Pod ovate, 

 pointed, hispid ; seeds pitted, not glossy, brown, ovate. Kings 

 River Canon. 



