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LEPTOSIPHON ANDROSACEUS Benth. 
A beautiful species with lilac-purple flowers, rather coms 
mon on our hills in April and May, growing on grassy slopes, 
often in large patches. It ascends to an elevation of nearly 
2000 feet, and is found in both the Santa Cruz mountains and 
in the Mt. Hamilton range. Leféosiphon has been merged with 
both Gzlza and Linanthus. 
LEPTOSIPHON BICOLOR Nutt. 
A small plant with small purplish or yellowish flowers, not 
infrequent on grassy slopes. Nuttall’s type came frem near 
Portland, Oregon, but our Californian plant is said to be the 
same, and is widely distributed in the State. 
LEPTOSIPHON PARVIFLORUS Benth. 
Common on grassy slopes at medium elevations, the flowers 
either yellowish or almost white. It is not so small flowered as 
L. bicolor, but smaller than axdrosaceus and some of the other 
species. 
EMMENANTHE PENDULIFLORA Benth. 
Very abundant in 1904 on the burnt over area on the ridge 
southwest of Los Gatos, the plants large, many of them two feet 
high. It is a widely distributed species, occurring over much 
of California, common in the dry regions in the southern and 
eastern parts of the State. 
NEMOPHILA PLASKETTII Eastw. 
Common about thickets on moist northerly slopes, one of 
the first plants to bloom in April. A small, rough, somewhat 
prostrate plant, the flowers very small, white. 
NEMOPHILA NEMORENSIS Eastw. 
Abundant under trees in rich soil in the hills back of Alum 
Rock Park, and in the woods between Alima and Wright’s. A 
rather weak plant, the flowers large for this group, nearly a 
quarter of an inch in diameter. 
