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Phaceua tanacrtikolia Benth. 



No. 8178, collfected April 14, near Tracy, Contra Costa 

 county along the Niles branch of th^ rs^ilroad. It is abundant 

 for some distance along the railroad^s well a^ in adjacent fields. 

 The type perhaps came from this region. The bright violet 

 purple flowers lose much of their beauty in drying. 



Phaceua cryptantha Greene, Pittonia, 5: 21. 1902. 



Phacelia hupidd brachyantha Goville, Cont. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 4: 15^: 1893. 



No. 6255, collected May 14, on the Red Hill west of Bishop, 

 Inyo county, growing about low shrubs in gravel and sand. It 

 is rather common in the vicinity. The leaf divisions are often 

 but not always acute, and the corollas ia little longer than the 

 calyx, in which it differs from the type, collected in "Surprise 

 Catiyon, Panamint Mountains,, Iriyo County, California." The 

 name brachyantha is rib doubt preoccupied in the genus, since 

 it is not used by Greene. ., 



PiiACEtiA gicutaria Greene, Pittonia,! 5; 20. 1902. 



No. 8146, collected April 11, in'Madera county, at the old 

 river bridge above Pollasky. This is not altogether typical, but 

 is referred here for the present. The same thing was distrib- 

 uted last year under the nanife P. hispida^ no. 761 1, although at 

 the time I considered it distinct. It may be found in various 

 collections as P. hispida^ but that is a very different plant. 



Phaceua cuRViPESTorr,Bot. King Rep. 252. 1871. 



No. 8228, collected May 10, along the 1>ase of the Sierra 

 foothills about three miles south of Bishop. Plentiful, as it is 

 at other places in the vicinity. The original is described as 

 "soft pubescent and somewhat pilose," while ours is distinctly 

 hispid. The type was collected on "foot-hills near Carson and 

 Washoe Cities," Nevada. ,;v 



