; differs in the stout and axillary r.-^.cemcs Howe 

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base barely surpassing the leaves and simple ; pubesce: 

 all viscid; pedicels mostly refiexed in fn 



]es lon.e: calyx lobes lanceolate; llowcrs mmute, 

 barclv 1 line longf. white, with broad lobes, included stamens 

 and style cleft n^early to the base. P. pachvphylla has soft- 

 pubescent leaves, is very viscid-glandular throuirhout. has a 

 more erect habit with terminal and geminate peduncles more 

 or less evident and inflorescence greatly surpassing the leaves ; 

 pedicels erect; pods 1^1 lines long with linear sepals: flowers 

 blue, about 4 lines long and three times as long as the 

 sepals, companulate and very broad (about 4 lines wide) ; 

 stamens as long as the lobes ;'style 2-cleft to the middle. This 

 latter species abounds from Death Valley to the Mojave. while 

 P. neglecta is so far found only at the Needles on the Colorado 

 river. Both these species by their seeds belong to the sec- 

 tion Microgenetes, but in habit belong with P. demissa. and 

 differ from both in the styles, and approach P. pulchella. It 

 is a significant fact that we have so many long flowered spe- 

 cies with their corresponding short-flowered relations, which 

 seem to be distinct from each other such as caerulea and 

 invenusta, pulchella and demissa, pachyphylla and neerlecta, 

 Emmenanthe glaberrima and pusilla. P. neglecta was found 

 at the Needles. California. May 3, 1884, No. 3792. 



F.mmenanthe glaberrima forrey in Bot. King. 2.v' (18/1). 



This would appear to belong to section Microgenetes ot 

 Hiacelia and probably does. Nearly prostrate, weak and deli- 

 cate, annual, a few inches long, with filiform stems, peduncles 

 and pedicels; minutely hirsute throughout, except the pe- 

 duncles and pedicels, not glandular nor viscid; leaves oblance- 

 olate to spatulate, 6 lines to 2 inches long, normally 1 incn 

 long, the lower occasionally 6-toothed in the middle, other- 

 wise entire, obtuse, the petiole as long as the blade ; pedun- 

 cles at every node, 2-4 inches long, laxly racemose nearly to 

 the base, 4-6-flowered ; pedicels 5^ line long in flower and I/2 

 hues long in fruit, ascending; calyx in flower about 1 line long 

 with broadlv linear and obtuse lobes which in fruit become 2 

 lines long and rather spatulate, corolla at first nearly as long 

 as the calyx, white with oblong lobes and included stamens, 

 persistent at length not over one-half to one-third the calyx 

 and half as long as the capsule; capsule oval, V/2 hnes long, 

 very obtuse, 6-seeded; seeds deeply favose and cross-wnn- 



