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specimen was referred provisionally to P. hispida; but as to 
habit and inflorescence it is much more like P. sanacetifolia, 
while in its pinnated and sharply cut foliage it recalls, as does 
no other of our Phacelias such a plant as Erodium cicutarium. 
P. HETEROSEPALA. Annual, a foot high, freely branching and 
perhaps reclining, but with nearly the foliage and the hispid- 
hairiness of P. hispida; the racenes more nearly spicate, both 
flowers and fruiting calyces subsessile, the latter appearing in 
one rank instead of two: four sepals very narrowly linear, the 
fifth in all the upper flowers twice as wide and notably longer, 
but in the lower flowers developed as an oblanceolate, or even a 
cuneate-obovate toothed leaf: capsules oval instead of globose, 
puberulent and sparsely bristly, the seeds of twice the size of 
those of P, hispida, of a darker color and more deeply and dis- 
tinctly favose pitted. 
Iron Cafion, foothills of the mountains of Butte Co., Cali- 
fornia, Mrs. R. M. Austin, May, 1896. Also apparently the same 
in Amador Co., Geo. Hansen, A fine northeastern and moun- 
tain analogue of the south Californian and coastward plant, 
P. hispida. 
P. CRYPTANTHA. P. hispida var. brachyantha, Coville, Contr., 
U.S. Herb, iv, 158. In his description of this, as a variety of 
P. hispida, Mr. Coville has pointed out its distinguishing pecu- 
liarities as compared with the type of that species, and with a 
fulness that equals, in value, a specific character. There is 
therefore no need of another specific character here. The geo- 
graphical range of the plant is totally separate from that of 
P. hispida, which belongs to the Californian seaboard. It is, 
moreover, a much smaller plant, as to stature; the spikes and 
calyces are almost the same, while the very small corolla of 
P. cryptantha, not exserted at all beyond the calyx, would of 
itself be enough to mark the rank of the plant as a species. 
P. commixta. Annual, allied to P. tanacetifolia, but foliage 
not dissected, scarcely eyen once pinnate, the lobes broad and 
ample, incised ; spikes many, elongated and strict, mostly in 
