326 Hydrophyllaceae 



of the ovate capsule; corolla 1 cm. high or more, the lobes dark 

 purple, the throat and tube yellowish. 



Frequent in the pine belt of the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Moun- 

 tains. May-August. 



-<- *- Seeds strongly corrugated transversely; style cleft only at apex. 



15. P. Fremontii Torr. Much branched from the base, 1.5-3 

 dm. high ; leaves pinnatifid into 7-15 oblong or obovate entire 

 or obtusely 2-3-lobed divisions; flowers crowded in the at 

 length elongated spiciform racemes ; corolla broadly funnelform, 

 twice the length of the spatulate calyx-lobes ; the long and nar- 

 row appendages united below with the filaments or. almost free 

 from them; capsule oblong; seeds 20-30, oblong, strongly and 

 somewhat evenly corrugated. 



Los Angeles River; Wilson's Peak, Davidson. Summit of Santiago Peak. 



4. EMMENANTHE Benth. 



Annuals with the habit of Phacelia and differing from 

 that genus only by its yellow or cream-colored persist- 

 ent corollas, destitute of appendages. 



1. E. penduliflora Benth. (WHISPERING BELLS.) Erect, 

 usually much branched from the base, 2-4 dm. high, villous- 

 pubescent and somewhat viscid ; lobes of the pinnatifid leaves 

 numerous, short-toothed or incised; racemes loose, straight, 

 ascending; pedicels filiform, as long as the flowers, these soon 

 pendulous; calyx-lobes ovate, 6-8 mm. long; corolla cream- 

 colored, campanulate, about 1 cm. long; filaments adnate to the 

 base of the corolla; seeds about 16, pitted. 



Common throughout the chaparral belt of all the mountains. April-June. 



5. CONANTHUS Wats. 



Low herbs or suffrutescent plants with entire leaves 

 and purple, bluish or white flowers. Calyx deeply 

 5-parted. Corolla funnelform or somewhat salver-shaped, 

 the tube destitute of internal appendages. Stamens 

 often unequal and unequally inserted, included. Styles 

 2, distinct to the base or rarely united ; stigmas some- 



