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the spreading filiform pedicels longer than the fruiting calyx : corolla light blue or nearly 

 white, 4 to lines in diameter : calyx-lobes linear or lanceolate, in fruit nearly twice the 

 length of the capsule (this only a line and a half long). — Yl. 1.140; Gray, Man. I.e. 

 (Pluk. t. 245, fig. 5.) Polemoniam dubium, L. Eutoca parcijlora, R. Br. in Richards. App. 

 Frankl. Journ. 36 ; Benth. 1. c. Cosmanthus parvijiorus, A.DC. 1. c. Phacelia pusilla, Buck- 

 ley, 1. c, ex char. — Shaded jDlaces, Pennsylvania and Ohio to Carolina, Missouri, and Texas : 

 the south-western and also Virginian forms passing into 



Var. hirsuta, Gray. More hirsute and the stems less slender, apparently growing 

 in more open or dry soil : corolla larger, 5 to 7 lines in diameter. — Proc. Am. Acad. 1. c. 

 P. hirsuta, Nutt. 1. c. 191. — Prairies and barrens, south-western part of JNIissouri to eastern 

 Texas. Also similar forms from Giles Co., Virginia, and Stone Mountain, Georgia, 

 Canhy. Well developed capsule 2 lines long. Ovules only 4 in some flowers, 8 in others. 



* * Ovules (and commonly the seeds) about 8 on each placenta: plants stouter, with less divided 

 leaves ; vestiges of appendages to ttie corolla sometimes manifest, in the form of very narrow 

 lamellcB approximate in pairs between the stamens. 



P. patuliflora, Gray. Rather softly cinereous-hirsute or pubescent, and the inflorescence 

 somewhat glandular, branched from the base, a span to a foot high, erect or diffuse : leaves 

 obovate or oblong (an inch or two long) ; the lowest lyrate-pinnatifid ; the upper commonly 

 only pinnatifid-incised, sessile : racemes lax, at length elongated : pedicels spreading or 

 nodding, especially in fruit, 4 to 7 lines or more long : corolla deep blue with yellow base, 

 from half to three quarters inch in diameter ; the lobes somewhat erose-denticulate : calyx- 

 lobes lax or spreading, linear or somewhat lanceolate, occasionally becoming spatulate or 

 obovate, sometimes twice the length of the rather thin-walled capsule. — Proc. Am. Acad. 

 X. 321. Eutoca patulijiora, Engelm. & Gray, PI. Lindh. i. 45. Phacelia hispida, Buckley in 

 Proc. Acad. Philad. 1861, 463. — Low prairies and thickets, Texas along and near the 

 coast, Berlandier, Lindheimer, Wrir/ht, Buckley, &c. Capsule 2^ lines long : placentEe at 

 length deciduous : seeds apparently as in the next. 



P. strictiflora, Gray, I. c. Shorter and stouter than the preceding, more cinereous-hir- 

 sute : leaves rather more pinnatifid (an inch or so long) : racemes in fruit strict and mostly 

 dense, with pedicels erect and not longer than the capsule : corolla similar or rather larger : 

 calyx-lobes usually becoming spatulate : capsule firm-coriaceous (3 lines long) : seeds 

 round-oval, minutely alveolate-reticulated and coarsely more or less tuberculate-rugose ! — 

 Eutoca strictiflora, Engelm. & Gray, 1. c. — Sand-hills, San Felipe and Austin, Texas, Drum- 

 mond, Lindheimer, E. Hall. Also Mississippi, Spillman. Perhaps a variety of the last, 

 growing in more exposed soil. Capsule of firmer texture ; the placentce inclined to be 

 adnate. In the seeds alone there is some approach to the character of the Microymetes 

 section. 



§ 4. Gymnobythus, Gray. Ovules and seeds very numerous on the dilated 

 placentae, descending or nearly horizontal ; the testa favose-pitted : appendages of 

 the rotate-campanulate corolla wholly absent : capsule ovate and pointed : stjde 

 2-parted: very glandular and viscid Californian annuals, with ovate dentate leaves, 

 simple or sometimes geminate loose racemes, and very slender filaments (usually 

 a little bearded at base) about the length of the corolla. — Proc. Am. Acad. 

 X. 321. Cosmanthus § Gymnobythus, A.DC. 



P. viscida, Torr. A foot or two high, branching, hirsute at base, very glandular above : 

 leaves ovate or obscurely cordate, doubly or incisely and irregularly dentate (an inch or 

 two long) : corolla deep blue with purple or whitish centre, from half to nearly an inch in 

 diameter. — Bot. Mex. Bound. 143; Gray, I.e. & Bot. Calif, i. 513. Eutoca viscida, Benth. 

 in Bot. Reg. t. 1808 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3572. Cosmanthus viscidus, A.DC. 1. c. 296. — Open soil, 

 along the coast of California, from Santa Barbara southward. Calyx-lobes linear or be- 

 coming obscurely spatulate, about tlie length of the abruptly cuspidate-pointed capsule ; 

 the firm placentae of which persist on the valves. 



Var. albiflora, Gray, 1- c, differs only in its white corolla. — Eutoca albiflora, Nutt, 

 PI. Ganib. 158. — Same range. 



P. grandiflora, Gray, 1. c. Very like the preceding, or disposed to be more hispul : 

 corolla light blue or sometimes white, an inch to an inch and a half in diameter. — Eutoca 



