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Phacelia pratensis 



■' Annual, branched from the base, the branches curved- 

 ascending, I dm. high and as broad across the top, all parts 

 pilose except the corolla lobes: leaves entire, oblanceolate, the 

 few basal ones 5 cm. long, the blade half that length, 6 mm. 

 wide; those of the stem half as long as the basal ones, but little 

 reduced in width, all sub-acute: racemes 3 or 4 cm. long, rather 

 looge, lower pedicels 8 mm. long, the upper a little more than 

 half that length: calyx 6 mm. long, the lobes linear-oblong, i mm 

 wide, very slightly narrowed at base, the apex sub-acute: corol- 

 las large for the plant, i cm, high, broadly open campanulate, 

 12 or 13 mm. across, the throat white, the lobes bright violet 

 blue, broad and rounded, 4 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, ' glabrous ex- 

 ternally and internally; stamens equaling the corolla tube, the 

 filaments bearded for t^vo-thirds their length; anthers oblong, 

 purplish:, style two-cleft to the middle, a little shorter than the 

 stamens. 



The type is no. 8273, collected May 18, 1906, in the Sierra 

 foothills west of Bishop, Inyo country California, at the lower 

 end of "McGee's meadows," in moist grassy places on the banks 

 of Birch creeki:: . It'is more: or less related to P, m^^:^£^ whic)^ 

 grows in the vicinity in dry sandy p^ces, but is d!jstingu%hed. 

 by the larger, longer, palerr flower, and t^e absence of curved 

 pedicels. v. _,^^^^ .... 



Emmenanthe PENbuuFLOKA Bf^th; ■'^'■'- '*■ ' '-'^ 



No. 8339, collected May ^^, ofli; the slope north of Sily(^r 

 canyon opposite Xaws^ Inyo county,,. growing about rocks. A 

 widely distributed species, equally at home on the desert moun- 

 tains as well as in the more humid coast region. 



MiLTiTzrA LUTEA (H. & A.) A.- DC. Pr€)dr. 9t 296. 

 '"Eutocir}lzffeaIl:8iA.B<3tBe€ch.^'/^. 1840. 



Emmenanthe lutea Gray, Syn. Fl. 2«: Part i, 170. 1878. 

 No. 8324, collected May 23, in the foothills west of Bishop, 

 Inyo county, in a small dry peat bog among the granite sands. 



