PHACELIA HYDROPHYLLACE^E *471 



EMMENANTHE 



stem 6-10 inches high, diffusely branched from the base : leaves pinnately 

 parted into 7-15 linear or oblong and entire or incisely few-toothed lobes 

 rarely bipinnatifid: racemes loose, 6-20 flowered: sepals linear, minutely 

 ciliate, 2 lines long: corolla white or pale purple, slightly longer than the 

 calyx, its appendages adnate to the filaments only at base, vertical, long and 

 narrow: style hairy below: capsule oblong, 16-24-seeded: seeds strongly 

 corrugated. Dry plains eastern Oregon and Washington to California 

 and Utah. 



P. Wcolor Torr. Watson Bot. King 255. Viscid-puberulent : stem 

 frj-8 inches high, diffusely much branched : leaves pinnately parted and the 

 divisions again irregularly pinnatifid into small nearly linear lobes : racemes 

 spiciform, loosely 10-20-flowered : calyx divided to the base, the lobes 

 linear-spatulate, 3-4 lines long, often unequal: corolla nearly funnelform, 

 6-8 lines long, with violet lobes yellow throat and white tube; its appen- 

 dages long and narrow, united for more than half their length with the fil- 

 ament forming a long tubular cavity behind it : capsule ovate oblong: 

 seeds about 16; minutely corrugated. Under Junipers, southeastern Oregon 

 to Nevada and California 



4 EMMENANTHE Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii, 281. 



Low annual herbs with alternate, pinnatfid or entire leaves 

 and yellow flowers in simple circinate raoemes. Calyx 5-parted, 

 the sinuses naked. Corolla yellow, campanulate, 5-cleft, without 

 appendage persistent. Stamens included, inserted at the very 

 base of the corolla, with slender filaments and elliptic anthers. 

 Nectary or disk annular, surrounding the base of the ovary, rather 

 thick, free or adnate to the ba?e of the corolla. Ovary ovoid or 

 oblong, compressed, 2-celled. by the union of the placentae in the 

 axis, many .ovuled: style 2-lobed at the summit, subpersistent: 

 stigmas capitellate. Capsule ovoid or oblong, incompletely 2-cell- 

 ed. Seeds 2-20 reticulated, or pitted and transversely rugose, 

 pendent, 



E. parviflora Gray Pac. R. Rep. iv, 85, t. 15. Densely pubescent 

 and viscid; depressed annual : leaves deeply pinnatifid : flowers crowded in 

 short spikes or racemes, on very short pedicels : corolla bright yellow, 

 2-3 lines long, merely 5-lobed, not 'longer than the linear obscurely spatu- 

 late calyx-lobes, withering persistent and enclosing the capsule ; the tube 

 within furnished with 10 narrow appendages : style hardly longer than the 

 ovary, persistent : ovules 20-40 ; seeds 15- 20. Shores of Klamath Lake 

 Oregon. 



E. Intea Gray Proc. Am. Acad. x, 328. Somewhat canescent with a 

 fine pubescence, and viscid above : stem ascending or depressed, much 

 branched from the base : leaves oblong in outline, 1-2 inches long, petioled, 

 subpinnately parted, the 5-9 lobes entire, oblong or obovate, 1-3 lines 

 long: flowers crowded, on very short pedicels: sepals linear, obtuse, be- 

 coming 3 lines long : corolla bright yellow, narrowly campanulate, merely 

 5-lobed, equalling the calyx, persistent at the base of the capsule, the tube 

 within furnished with 10 narrow appendages : style filiform, much longer 

 than the ovary, persistent : ovary densely hairy, about 11-ovuled : capsule 3 

 lines long acutish, 8-10-seeded : seeds oblong, finely reticulated as well as 

 rugose. Southeastern Oregon to Nevada and Calif or ilia. 



E. pusilla Gray Proc. Am. Acad. xi, 87. Pubescent: stem 1-2 inches 

 high, at length diffusely branched: leaves spatulate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 entire or nearly so, 2-5 inches long, tapering into a petiole of equal length: 



