56 HYDROPHYLLACE^:. 



very broad and open, and of a lavender color. Its calyx is less unequal than that of 

 P. leptostachya. " (In P. tanacetifolia the sepals are equal.) 



4. Eutoca. 



P. verna, Howell. Annual, softly ashy with soft hairs, 4-10 inches high, branching 

 from the base and decumbent: leaves obovate to spatulate, entire or rarely the lower 

 most incisely toothed, abruptly contracted into a winged petiole or the upper sessile: 

 corolla pale blue but little exceeding the calyx: calyx lobes linear-lanecolate, 2-3 lines 

 long: seeds 8 to 12. Umpqua Val., Or. 



P. leucantha, Lemmon. Annual, viscid, 1-2 feet high: leaves lanceolate, pinnatifid, 

 the segments entire or coarsely toothed: racemes ternate, dense: corolla limb rotate 

 nearly an inch broad pure white, the short throat and tube yellow: stamens very short: 

 seeds 20 to 25. Del Mar, San Diego Co., and with smaller flowers in San Luis Obispo Co. 



5. Micro genet es. 



P. Cooperse, Gray. Branched from the base 5-15 inches high, densely hairy viscid: 

 leaves oblong obtuse, crenately sub-pinnatifid, petiolate: corolla narrow, funnelform 2- 

 3 times longer than the calyx, the limb pink or violet, the throat and tube yellow: ovules 

 7 or 8. Flood beds of streams, Santa Barbara and Ventura Go's. 



Under 3 of the Key to Genera in this order belongs, 



LEMMONIA, Gray. 



L. Californica, Gr. A depressed annual, hairy: stem branched from the base 

 dichotomously: leaves rosulate at the base and crowded at the ends of the branches, 

 entire, spatulate, 3-5 lines long: flowers sessile, solitary in the forks, closely cymose at 

 the ends of branches: calyx white-hairy: corolla white or whitish, a line long: styles 

 distinct. Mojave River. Recently found on Uncle Sam Mt., Lake Co., by Jepson. 



EBIODICTYON. 



E. Calif ornicum, Greene, is E. glutinosum of this book. 



NAMA. 



N. stenocarpum, Gray. Annual (our other species perennial), hairy and slightly 

 viscid: diffusely branched, at length procumbent: leaves oblong or narrower, sessile, 

 entire. Los Angeles. 



N. Liobbi, Gr. Woolly-hairy, resinous-viscous. This alpine species appears to 

 be near Eriodictyon, and is placed in that genus by Greene. 



