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CEANOTHUS CUNEATUS Nutt. Wild lilac. 
While not our commonest species, the white flowers of this 
may be detected here and there on our hillsides near the end of 
the month always a component part of the chaparral. The 
branches are stiff and rigid, somewhat spine pointed; the leaves 
are thick and leathery, pale beneath, an inch or less in length. 
SANICULA BIPINNATIFIDA Dougl. 
Rather common on grassy hillsides, the lower leaves rest- 
ing on the ground. ‘The flowers are collected in dense heads, 
and look like little brown balls. This does not much resemble 
any of the eastern species when in flower, and when one sees it 
for the first time he is liable to consider it anything but a Saz- 
tcula. 
SANICULA BIPINNATA H. & A. 
Near the end of March this species may be found, with us 
growing in open grassy places. Much less common than 5S. éz- 
pinnaiifida, but usually a number of plants in close proximity. 
The plant is slender, a foot or two high, the leaves cut into nar- 
row segments, the flowers pale yellow, small and inconspicuous. 
y PHACELIA DIVARICATA (Benth.) Gray 
Observed for the first time this spring in a neighbor’s or- 
chard, and possibly introduced, as it was found only about trees 
which had been manured last year. The plants were six or 
eight inches high, usually with severa] branches from near the 
base. The pale violet blue flowers are several in a cluster, from 
a half to three-quarters of an inch across, the short tube filmy 
and transparent-looking, as are also the spaces between the veins 
on the petals. The appendages of the petals extend from the 
base of the ovary to the top of the tube, and consist of a thin 
membrane, the edges raised and curved inward, almost touching 
each other. The stamens are as long as the petals, hairy at the 
middle, the anthers greenish. The style is a little shorter than 
the stamens, hairy except at the two-cleft apex. 
