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198 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [sepetmber 



Santa Barbara CO., Brewer no. 396 ; Casitas pass, Ventura co.. Hall no. 



3136; Santa Cruz island, Bra7idegee ; Fort IAo^sly^, Lemvion ; Los Angeles, 



Hasse ; Santa Monica canon. Barber no. 53; Fallbrook, San Diego co., Hall 



no. 515 ; Del Mar, San Diego co., Brandegee, 



Arizona: Diamond creek canon, Norman C, Wilson, 



The type was probably raised from seed sent by Douglas, who collected 



principally at San Francisco and Monterey, and is most likely in the herba- 

 rium at Kew or at the British Museum. 



2. N. RACEMOSA Nutt., in Gray Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 315. 

 1875. — Near A^. aurita, but less prickly: cotyledons with orbicu- 

 lar blade and lon^ petiole: the leaves shorter and broader in 

 outline and with fewer divisions, these more often toothed or 

 lobed ; petioles never broadly winged nor auriculate-clasping : 

 flowers less than i^'" across, more plainly racemose: corolla- 

 scales narrow, often half free, sometimes obsolete. 



Southern and Lower California. 



Specimens examined : California: Santa Cruz island, j9r^/;///<^^^; San 

 Clemente island, Nevin &^ Lyon; Cajon heights, San Diego co., Easiivood ; 

 Del Mar, San Diego co., Brandegee ; San Diego, Alderson no. 1007, Brande- 

 gee^ SetchelL 



Lower California: Guadalupe island, Anthony no. 254, Brandegee, 

 Francheschi no, 32, Greene ; Cedros island, Brandegee ; San Martin island, 

 Anthony no. 229, Brandegee ; Estaban, Brandegee, 



Type locality, ** California/ San Diego, NuttalL Island of Catalina, Dall 

 & Baker." 



3. N. phacelioides Nutt., Jour. Acad. Philad. 2:179. 1822. — J 



Plant weak: branches 2 to 6*^"" long, spreading- or retrorse- 

 hirsute : cotyledons not seen : all but the earliest leaves alter- 

 nate, pinnately divided into 3 to 9 oblong, oval, or obovate, 2 to 

 5-cleft divisions, the upper three divisions confluent, the others 

 often distant: lower flowers terminal (though apparently axil- 

 lary), the upper loosely racemose: calyx-lobes lanceolate or 

 oblong, 5 to 10 '""^ long; appendages ovate or oblong, about half 

 as long, not reflexed : corolla pelviform, I to S"""" across, blue; 

 scales broad, sometimes part free, fimbriate : style twice as long 

 as the ovary, cleft for a third its length : capsule about 5 to 9"""° 

 in diameter: seeds 4 per capsule, ** obscurely compressed-punc- 

 tate," according to Gray. 





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