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1906] ELMER—NEW WESTERN PLANTS 323 
sule 12™™ long, ovoid, sharply pointed, coriaceous, loculicidal: 
seeds many, orbicularly compressed or somewhat elongated,. with 
reticulate wings. . 
Type specimen no. 4761, collected on the trail between Spring Valley Lake 
and San Pedro, San Mateo County, California, July 1903. 
It is a uniquely distinct subglandular species easily recognized by its abun- 
dant foliage, densely flowered elongated spikes, and broadly linear unequally 
3-segmented leaves. Named for W. F. Wicurt, a former student of botany and 
classmate at Stanford University. 
Phacelia flaccida, n. sp.—Delicate annual, 3 to 6% high: stems 
sparingly but widely branched from the middle, rather weak 
and more or less reclining, rarely. erect, beset with stinging white 
hairs: leaves few, alternate, usually subtending the branches, the 
larger ones 5°™ wide and 7°™ long, ovate to elliptic in outline, very 
thin and flaccid, only sparsely setigerous on both surfaces, 3 to 5- 
pinnately nerved, obscurely lobulate, the margins with irregular 
low roundly obtuse teeth, base rounded or obscurely and unequally 
subcordate; longer petioles 4°™ in length, setose, the younger ones 
cinereously pubescent: inflorescence usually dichotomously branched; 
flowers secund, not crowded, upon short ciliate pedicels: calyx of +5 
persistent herbaceous distinct segments, the 4 smaller ones oblanceo- 
late and in the mature state 7™™ long, bristly ciliate: corolla barely 
exceeding the calyx, 3™™ long, blue or pale white; the 5 segments 
short-ovate and comparatively very broad: stamens well included 
within the tube, alternating with the segments and inserted near the 
base of the tube; anthers short- elliptic, versatile; ‘filaments nearly 
equal, glabrous, usually curved above the middle, subtended by 
small hyaline entire membranous folds: ovary persistent, pubescent; 
style persistent, equaling the anthers, cleft almost to the base, each 
division bearing a minute terminal stigma: capsule ovoid, 1-celled, 
divided into 2 valves, 1-seeded in each; seeds es flattened, 2™™ 
long, obscurely pitted. 
cimen no. 4404, collected at Wright’s Station, Santa Clara County, 
Type s 
California, June 1 
delicate eis + was discovered in a damp deeply shaded nook on the 
banks of Los Gatos Creek. Otherwise not known. 
Leptosyne Hamiltonii, n. sp.—Glabrous acaulescent annual: 
leaves tufted, all radical, mostly erect, rather thick, 2 to 3°™ long 
