NOVITATES 0CCIDENTALE8. 191 



P. distans, Bentli. But my counsellor had been misled. It 

 is not that species, as an examination of Bentham's specimens 

 has shown me; nor is it even what Gray himself sent out as 

 representing P. distans after he had come to recognize that 

 species. True P. distans is one of the commonest and most 

 widely dispersed of Californian Phacelias. Nuttall collected it 

 at San Diego, and had it named as new in his herbarium, i. e. 

 " P. florihunda:' The bulk of the specimens extant in her- 

 baria will probably be found bearing the name P. tanaceU- 

 folia, with which much less common species it has been con- 

 fused; though I had remarked its manifest peculiarities long 

 ago. 'its stem is more densely, and quite retrorsely hispid. 

 Its spikes are short, and collected at and near the ends of the 

 many branches in pairs or several together. Its corolla is 

 very broad and open, and of a lavender color. Its calyx is 

 less unequal than that of P. leptosfachya. The new species 

 is abundant in sandy soil, under oak trees, and even along the 

 less frequented and newer streets of Alameda, California; a 

 station that yields a goodly number of well marked and very 

 local species in other genera. A marked variety of it, or 

 possibly a distinct species, with larger and almost white cor- 

 ollas, the whole plant smaller, and the spikes less scattered, is 

 common on sandy or rocky hills at San Francisco, and in 



Marin 



uml)rosa 



^^^^^ _ Allied to the preceding, but only 



spIrTngly'hispTdulous and not viscid or glandular, very 

 slender, amply leafy throughout: foliage thin, the segments 

 not deeply cut, scarcely more than crenate-toothed: sepals as 

 unequal, but thinner, ampler and longer: corolla with much 

 longer and narrower tube and smaller limb, bluish-lilac, or pale 

 violet: stamens not exserted. 



sula 



Orcutt, 1885. 

 Amsinckia microcarpa. Erect, a foot high or more, 



rather slender, sparingly hispidulous: cauline leaves broadly 

 lanceolate: racemes not bracted, short and rather dense: 



