472 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



0. Phacelia glandulifera, sp. nov. 



Annual, branched from the baso, 5 to 30 cm. high, hispid, and glandular throughout; leaves 

 oblong, pinnately parted into 11 to 15 narrow divisions, these acutish and mostly 2 to 6- 

 lobed; calyx lobes spatulate-oblanc*olate, obtuse, entire or rarely bearing a single lobe, 

 hispid and glandular, about 6 mm. long in flower, becoming twice as long and remainmg 

 erect in fruit; corolla pale violet, campanulate-funnelform, 6 mm. long, barely exceedmg 

 the calyx, 15-'nerved, its rounded lobes 1.5 mm. long, the crests very obscure or wanting: 

 stamens included, the slender filaments subulate, unequally inserted toward the l>ase, the 

 whit* anthers cordate-reniform ; style 2-cleft at apex; stigmas capitate; capsule oblong, 

 5 to 6 mm. long, obtuse, sparsely hispidulous; .seeds about 12, angular, lanceolate-oblong, 

 beautifully tuberculat* in transverse rows, 1.7 mm. long. 



This plant has long lHH«n confused with P. iivxiana Torr. of the Great Basin region south- 

 ward though attention was called to its di.sfinctness long sinc«.« P. ivesiana differs m 

 having its herbage more hispid and nearly glandless, and in having broader, obtuse, mostly 

 entire leaf loU^s. glandle.ss» calyx, and more deeply corrugated seeds. 



Specimens ex.\minei>: Washington— Junction Crab and Wilson creeks, Douglas County, 

 Sandberg d- Leiherg :m, June, 18ft3: Pasco, Piper 29.'>4, May 25, 1899 (type) ; same locality, 

 Hendermn 2SW: Morgan's Ferry, Yakima County, Suhsdorf 398. Oregon-Sage Plams, 

 Howen, June 16, 1885; Ontario, Leiberg 2015; Guano Ranch, Ctmlle <& Leiherg 5, July 24, 

 1896; i^astern Oregon, Cufdck 1670. Idaho-without locality, Hayden in 1872; Big Butte 

 Station, Palmer 590: Blue Lakes, Palmer 65. 



Zonal disteibution: Upper Sonoran. 



CONANTHUS. 



1. Conanthus parviflonis Greenman, Erythea 7: 117. 1899. 



GUia hispida Piper, Erythea 6: 30. 1898, not Cominihus hisjndus Heller nor Nama 

 hvtjnda A. Gray. 1862. . 



T^PE ixxJALm-: " Oregon in sandy .soil of the Malheur." Collected by Cusick. 



Range: Eastern Washington and eastern Oregon. 



Specimens examined: Near Morgan's Ferry, SuMorf 390: Wallula, Braiulegee 978; 

 Pasco, Piper 2968; Hind..haw, May 25, 18t)6; Hender^ov 2402; Pijyer, July 10, 1897. 



Zonal distribution : Upper Sonoran. 



Washington specimens referred to Nama demissum A. Gray ^nd Coruinthus arehaules 

 Wats, belong to this species. 



BORAGINACEAE. Borage Family. 



Ovary undivided, sometimes 2 to 4-grooved; style terminal. 



Style entire; stigma peltate Heliotbopium(p 473). 



Style 2-cleft ; stigmas capitate Coldenia (p. 474) . 



Ovary 4-parted; the style arising from between the parts. 

 Nutlets armed with barted prickles. 



Nutlets erect, prickly on the margins and sometimes 



ontheback Lappula (p. 474). 



Nutlets spreading, prickly all over Cynoglossum (p. 476). 



Nutlets not armed with barbed prickles. 



Calyx much enlarged and membranous in fruit. ..... Asperugo (p. 476). 



Calyx not much enlarged nor membranous in fruit. 



Corolla tubular or tubular-funnelform, blue .... Mertensia (p. 476). 



Corolla funnelform or rotate. 



Nutlets erect attached by the very base. 

 Racemes bractless; corolla rotate; roots 

 slender Myosotis (p. 486). 



oOoville, Contr. Nat. Herb. 4: 159. 1893. 



