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narrow-campanulate blue corolla, exceeding the globular sparsely hirsute-pubescent cap- 

 sule : stamens and at length deeply 2-parted style included : appendages at base of fila- 

 ment short: seeds alveolate-reticulated. — Proc. Am. Acad. x. 317, & Bot. Calif, i. 506. 

 Naina racemosa, Kellogg, Proc. Acad. Calif, v. 51. — California, in the Sierra Nevada from 

 Calaveras to Nevada Co., at Cisco, Summit Station, &c., Bolander, Kellojrj. Corolla and 

 capsule a line long. 



* * Leaves (as in the rest of the genus) all alternate : pubescence or some of it hispid or hirsute : 

 spikes ov branches of the cyme scorpioid and dense: pedicels short or hardly any (except in P. 

 pedicell'iffi) : appendages of tlie corolla broad and salient, usually more or less united at the base 

 of the fdament. 



•i— Leaves all simple and entire, or some of the lower pinnately 3-5-parted or divided; the segments 

 or leaflets entire : capsule ovate, acute : seeds densely alveolate-punctate, upper end acutish. 



P. circinata, Jacq. f . Hispid and the foliage strigose, and either green or canescent, a 

 span to 2 feet high from a perennial or biennial root : leaves from lanceolate to ovate, 

 acute, pinnately and obliquely straight-veined ; the lower ta^iering into a petiole and com- 

 monly some of them with one or two pairs of smaller lateral leaflets : inflorescence hispid ; 

 the dense spikes thyrsoid-congested : corolla whitish or bluisli, moderately 5-lobed, longer 

 than the oblong-lanceolate or linear calyx-lobes : filaments much exserted, si^aringly 

 bearded. — Eclog. lo-j, t. 91 ; Benth. 1. c. ; A. DC. Prodr. 1. c, where see the older synonymy. 

 (Ahlea c(rc(>itt/fl, Willd. Enum.) P. heterophi/Ila, Pursh, Fl. i. 1-40. P. Culi/uruiai, Cham, in 

 Linn. iv. 495. P. hastata, Dougl. in Hook. Fl. ii. 80. P. leucophijlla, Torr. in Frem. Rep. 93. 

 P. ctiuf'scens, Nutt. PI. Gamb. 159, a dwarf very canescent state. — Dry ground, Dakota to 

 British Columbia, New Mexico, and California. (S. to the Straits of Magellan.) Very 

 variable : dwarf forms sometimes with a naked scape-like stem. 



Var. calycosa, Gray, 1. c. Divisions of the calyx m(n-e foliaceous and ample, and 

 in fruit with narrowed base, oblong to obovate-spatulate, reticulated. — California ; not rare 

 in tlie western part of the State, under otherwise varying forms. 



P. Breweri, Gray, 1- c. Resembling the preceding but smaller .and slender, from an 

 annual root: corolla blue or violet, more broadly campanulate, nearly twice the length of 

 the linear calyx-lobes : filaments glabrous, a little shorter than the corolla. — Monte Diablo,. 

 California, on dry and soft sandstone, Brewer. Leaves seldom an inch long, exclusive of 

 the petiole of the lowermost ; many of them 3-5-parted ; the lanceolate lobes ascending. 

 Corolla barely 3 lines long. 



P. humilis, Torr. & Gray. Annual, diffusely branched from the base, a span high, 

 pubescent, or the inflorescence often hirsute : leaves spatulate-oblong or oblanceolate, 

 rather obtuse ; the lower rarely with one or two lateral ascending lobes, the veins branch- 

 ing : spikes loosely paniculate or solitary, in age rather slender : pedicels either all very 

 short, or the lower sometimes almost as long as the calyx : corolla indigo-blue, rather 

 deeply lobed, surpassing the usually linear calyx-lobes : filaments moderately exserted, 

 glabrous or sparingly bearded above. — Pacif. R. Rep. ii. 122, t. 7 ; Watson, Bot. King, 250. 

 — Sierra Nevada, California, from Siskiyou to Mariposa Co., and E. Nevada. Leaves an 

 inch or two in length. Corolla 2 or 3 lines long. 



Var. calycosa, Gray. A strict and slender form : corolla apparently pale : calyx- 

 lobes larger and spatulate, as in the similar variety of P. circinata. — Proc. Am. Acad. & 

 Bot. Calif, i. 507. — E. side of the Sierra Nevada, near Mono Lake, Bolander. 



•i- H— Leaves simple, all petioled, rounded-cordate, somewhat palmately lobed or incised, the lobes 

 serrate. 



P. malvsefolia, Cham. Rather tall and stout, from an annual ? root, hispid with spread- 

 ing or reflexed stinghig bristles, and the foliage more or less pubescent: leaves (1 to 3 

 inches in diameter) green and membranaceous, round-cordate, incisely 5-9-lobed, acutely 

 toothed : somewhat palmately ribbed at base : spikes solitary or geminate : corolla (3 or 4 

 lines long) white, longer than the unequal linear and spatulate calyx-lobes : stamens ex- 

 serted : seeds alveolate-scabrous. — Linn. iv. 494; Gray, 1. c. — California, Bay of San 

 Francisco, Chamisso, Kellorjg, G. R. Vasey. 



-(—-)— -1— Leaves oblong or narrower in outline, pinnately toothed, lobed, or compound, and the 

 lobes or divisions toothed or incised: capsule globular or ovoid, obtuse : seeds with excavated 

 ventral face divided by a salient ridge: annuals, or rarely biennials (or one perennialV ), mostly 

 with cymosely or umbellately or thyrsoid congested spikes. 



•H- Calyx, &c., not setose-hispid : stamens and style more or less exserted. 



