son, Erythea 1:15. Putah can- 

 northward. 



:. SBer (Parish 459) to Baja! 

 ASCLEPIAS MEXICANA Cav. 



dm hi, giabrous or sparsely 

 pubcrulent; Ivs in whorls of 3-6 or the 

 and uppermost opp, linear to 

 linear-lanceolate, 6-15 cm long, 4-12 

 mm broad. short-petioled; umbels 

 many, corymbose, densely many-fid, on 

 ped longer than the pedicels; fls g'ish- 

 .--lobes 4 mm long-; hoods broadly 

 ovate, entire, shorter than the anth, 

 exceeded by the stout subulate incurv- 

 ed horn. Ore. Baja! Nev. 



Abrams. PI LA 307. Frequent on the 

 mesas and in the foothills. 

 Cav. Ic PI 1:42 (1791). 

 TypA locality: "prope Mexico." 

 Coville. CXH 4:149. 

 Hall. U 103. 



-pias fascicularis Decaisne, of Bot 



Ha U 103. Oregon to Baja! Nevada. 

 Genus PHII.IBERTELLA Vail. 



"Cx sm. 5-parted, lobes acute; cor 

 campanulate or rotate, deeply 5-parted, 

 lobes acute or obtuse, with a shallow 

 entire or undulate ring forming an 

 outer crown in its throat, the inner or 

 staniineal crown consisting of 5 turgid 

 fleshy or hard scales, or flattish ap- 

 pendages, attached in a circle at the 

 base of the sessile or slightly stalked 

 gync=tegium (column), forming a hol- 

 low entire or undulate spreading sur- 

 face near the level of the conical stig; 

 follies naked, slender, attenuate at 

 both ends or obtuse at the base. Twin- 

 ing herbs, or partly shrubby plants, of 

 warm regions, with opp glabrous pub- 

 escent or woolly Ivs and umbellate 

 sometimes fragrant and showy fls." 

 vail Torr cl b 24:305 (Je 1897). 

 PHILIBERTELLA HARTWEGII Vail. 

 Variety HETEROPHYLLA Vail. 



-lender, twining, glabrous, pub- 

 erulent or somewhat pubescent above; 

 m long, 2-4 mm wide, vari- 

 able, some tapering into the petiole, 

 others with rounded and more with 

 dilated or auriculate-cordate or trun- 

 cate base*, cor scarcely puberulent, 1 

 cm broad, its lobes acute; column ses- 

 sile. Growing over low shrubs or 

 herbs. 



rams, Fl LA 306. 

 ERYTHRAEA DOUGLASII A. Gray. 



--, Bot Gal 1:480 (1876). "Mostly 

 slender, from 2-12 i hi, loosely panicu- 

 late: Ivs lanceolate or linear-lanceo- 

 late and acute, or the lower ones nar- 

 rowly oblong (from % to nearly 1 i 

 long- > peds long and filiform, common- 

 ly strict and the earlier or central ones 

 1 i long or more, lobes of the pink cor 

 oblong (barely 2 li long): sds globu- 

 lar, hardly 14 li long." 



Erytraea tenella Uuttall, 1 ms, Gray, 

 Bot Cal 1:480. 



Erythraea elata Nuttall, ms, Gray, 

 Bot Cal 1:480. 



Erythraea Nuttallii Watson, Bot 



King Exp 276, in part. 



Erythraea exaltata Coville, CNH, 4:150, 



Panamint mts. 



Cicendia exaltata Grisebach, in 

 Hooker, Fl Bor Am 2:69 (1838), wrong- 

 ly characterized fide Gray. 



Type locality: between the Kettle 

 Falls and Narrows, of the Columbia 

 river, N. W. C." 

 Oregon; Idaho ; Utah; Baja! 



Genus NE3IOPHIL.A Nuttall. 



Low diffuse slender or fragile more 

 or less hirsute an herbs, with alt or 

 opp mostly pinnatifid or lobed Ivs, and 

 mostly showy fls, solitary and pedun- 

 cled, lateral or terminal: ex deeply 

 5-parted or cleft, with a reflexed or 

 spreading appendage in each sinus: cor 

 campanulate or rotate-campanulate, 

 usually with 10 small appendages 

 within at base: sta included, inserted 

 near base of cor-tube; anth o^ate or 

 oblong: ova 1-celled; sty more or less 

 2-cleft; ovules 4-20: cap 2-valved: sds 

 carunculate. 

 NEMOPHILA INSIGNIS Dougl. 



Sts much branched, spreading, 1-3 

 dm long, nearly glabrous or somewhat 

 pubescent with more o> less retrorse 

 hairs; Ivs mostly bipinnatifld, pubes- 

 cent with spreading hairs, 2-5 cm long, 

 lobes elliptic-ovate; ped mostly 25-45 

 mm long; ex-lobes ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute; cor 15-25 mm broad, rotate- 

 campanulate, tube scarcely % the 

 length of lobes, usually deep bl, slight- 

 ly hairy toward the base; scales rather 

 broad, "ciliate; sds usually 12, corru- 

 gate-roughened. 



Abrams, Fl LA 320. 



Davidson, PI LA Co 11. 



Babv-eyes, fls cyanine blue. 



SBer Co (Parish, Or). Temecula 

 valley, Riverside Co (Cleveland). Com- 

 mon 'nearly throughout Cal. 

 NEMOPHILA IXTEGRIFOL.IA Abrams. 



Abrams Fl LA 321, based on N. Men- 

 ziesii integrifolia Parish, which see 

 for description. 

 NEMOPHILA PEDUXCULATA Douglas 



Washington to Baja! (Or 1128 in 



NEMOPHH^A SPATULATA Coville. 



Sierra Nevada mts, Tulare Co; San 

 Jacinto mts (Hall 2406). 



Hall, U 107. 



Coville, U S Na Hb cont 156. 

 PHACELIA TANACETIFOLIA Benth. 



?arish, Erythea 6:90. SBer valley, 

 he plants usually referred here are 

 P distans, which this much resembles, 

 but this is usually much stouter, erect, 

 sparsely branching or simple; Ivs larg- 

 er and less finely dissected; spikes ter- 

 minating the branches, approximate, 

 6-9 cm long; sep linear, beset with 

 rigid bristles, in fr little exceeding the 

 oval cap; cor open-campanulate, 6-8 

 mm long, lavender, the lobes blunt, not 

 rounded; internal appendages entirely 

 adnate, tip rounded. 



Abrams, Fl LA 323. "Monica mts 

 between Cahuenga Pass and Encino. 



