300 HYDROPHYLLACEAE. 



14. P. davidsonii macrantha Parish. Stems branched from the 

 base, decumbent, ascending or erect, 2-4 dm. long, rather soft 

 pubescent and villous; leaves deeply pinnatifid into 2-4 triangular 

 entire lobes and a much larger terminal one, the evident veins ot 

 which are nearly parallel, the upper leaves commonly entire and 

 slender petioled; pedicels shorter than the fruiting calyx-lobes; 

 calyx-lobes narrowly spatulate, fully twice the length of the ovate 

 capsule; corolla 1 cm. high or more, the lobes dark purple, the 

 throat and tube yellowish. 



Frequent in the pine belt of the San Gabriel and San Bernardino 

 Mountains. May-August, 



15. P. fremontii Torr. Much branched from the base, 1.5-3 

 dm. high; leaves pinnatifid into 7-15 oblong or obovate entire 

 or obtusely 2-3-lobed divisions; flowers crowded in the at length 

 elongated spiciform racemes; corolla broadly funnelform, twice the 

 length of the spatulate calyx-lobes; the long and narrow appendages 

 united below with the filaments or almost free from them; capsule 

 oblong; seeds 20-30, oblong, strongly and somewhat evenly corru- 

 gated. 



Los Angeles River; Wilson's Peak, Davidsoji. Summit of Santi- 

 ago Peak. 



4. EMMENANTHE Benth. 



Annuals with the habit of Phacelia and differing from 

 that genus only by its yellow or cream-colored persistent 

 corollas, destitute of appendages. 



1. E. penduliflora Benth, (Whispering Bells.) Erect, usually 

 much branched from the base, 2-4 dm. high, villous-pubescent and 

 somewhat viscid; lobes of the pinnatifid leaves numerous, short- 

 toothed or incised; racemes loose, straight, ascending; pedicels fili- 

 form, as long as the flowers, these soon pendulous; calyx-lobes 

 ovate, 6-8 mm. long; corolla cream-colored, campanulate, about 1 

 cm. long; filaments adnate to the base of the corolla; seeds about 16, 

 pitted. 



Common throughout the chaparral belt of all the mountains, 

 April-June, 



5. CONANTHUS Wats. 



Low herbs or sufTrutescent plants with entire leaves 

 and purple bluish or white flowers. Calyx deeply 5- 

 parted. Corolla funnelform or somewhat salver-shaped, 

 the tube destitute of internal appendages. Stamens 

 often unequal and unequally inserted, included. Styles 

 2, distinct to the base or rarely united; stigmas some- 

 what capitate. Capsule thin, completely or incompletely 

 2-celled by the meeting of the 2 thin and dilated placentae, 

 2-valved, the valves entire. Seeds usually numerous. 



1, C. demissus (Gray) Heller. Annual; stems much branched 

 from the base and erect-spreading, 5-15 cm, high, pubescent, hir- 



