Phacelia. HYDROPHYLLACEJE. .",11; I 



+- +- Perennials, with soft and not bristly pubescence : corolla short-campanulate, with 

 very large and broad internal appendages united in pairs to or across the base of 

 the filament : leaves all petioled : stems nearly simple: flozvers cymost clustered. 



11. P. hydrophylloid.es, Torr. A span or two high from a thickened root or 

 rootstock, canesccntly pubescent, above hirsute and glandular: leaves silky-pubes- 

 cent both sides, ovate or rhombic (an inch or two long), obtuse, incisely few-toothed 

 or lobed, or the lowest lyrate, having one or two nearly separate small basal lobes : 

 flowers in a glomerate pedunculate cyme, the short spikes of which hardly lengthen : 

 corolla violet or whitish : anthers short-linear : style almost 2-parted : capsule about 

 the length of the slightly hispid calyx, short-pointed, C-8-seeded. — -Gray, Proe. 

 Am. Acad. vii. 400, & x. 323. 



Dry sandy or gravelly soil, in the higher sierras, from Mariposa to Sierra Counties, Brewer, 

 Bolander, Le/rmrum, &c. Has the aspect of a Hydrophyllwm, whence the name. 



12. P. procera, Gray, 1. c. Several feet high, minutely soft-pubescent, glan- 

 dular at summit : leaves green and membranaceous, 2 to 5 inches long, ovate- 



Iau ilate and ovate, .cute, mostly ineised-pinnatitid or cleft; the lobes 2 to 4 pairs 



and acute : spikes in a 2-parted or crowded cyme, somewhat lengthened when old : 

 corolla white or bluish: anthers oblong: stylo cleft hardly to the middle: calyx not 

 at all hispid : capsule nearly blunt, 10— 18-seeded. 



Mountain meadows of the Sierra Nevada, at 4,000 to 5,000 feet, in Nevada and Sierra Counties, 

 Bolander, Lemmon. 



+■ +■ +■ Annual, bristly hispid, branching. 



13. P. loasacfolia, Torr. A foot high, very hispid with long and spreading 

 bristly hairs (as in P. malvcefolia, which it resembles), also viscid-pubescent : leaves 

 ovate or oblong, or the lower almost cordate, more or less pinnatirid and the lobes 

 incisely toothed : spikes rather crowded : corolla whitish, a little longer than the 

 calyx-lobes; the semi-cordate broad internal appendages anriculate-inflexed at the 

 base, where they are united with the base of the filament, free and pointed at the 

 apex: ovules 12 to IS.- - Kiitora t,,u.<,i/o/i,i, lienth. 1. e. 



Near Monterey, Dour/his, Parry. Seldom collected and little known ; in aspect between /'. 

 malvcefolia and 1'. ramosissima. 



* * Stamens equalling or slightly exceeding the rotaie-campanulati corolla. 



+■ Appendages of the corolla large, semirobovate, tin pairs united at bast before th* 

 base of the filament : runt perennial? 



14. P. Bolanderi, Gray. Hispid with slender bristles, above viscid-pubescent: 



Stem stout, a foot or two high, loosely branched : lower and radical leaves lyrate 



and oblong in outline, at base usually with one or two pairs of small and incised 

 lateral divisions ; the terminal division and the short-petioled upper leaves ovate or 



oval (2 or .'! inches long), coarsely lobed or toothed, truncate or sul rdate at base : 



cymes once to thrice forked, the divisions racemose : corolla large (almost an inch 

 in diameter), white; its internal appendages al si as broad as long: anthers ob- 

 long: style clefl I ar the middle: ovules to or 50 on each dilated placenta: 



cap nl.' ovate, acute, many - led. - Proc. Am. Acad. \. 322. 



Mendocino Co., on Cottonoby Creek, 20 miles north of Noyo, A striking and pe- 

 culiar species, allied in mosl respects i" No. 10 and II. in others t>> /'. loasmfolia; but tie' 



il ins and stylo slightly if al -ill longer than the Lobes of the ample and almost rotate 1 1 



hi uncertain il I lie rool i perennial. 



+- -t- Appendages of tin corolla long "»./ narrow, if" from tlie fit calyx-lobes 



linear: style 2-cleft ot a/n.r; annuals, " span to afoot high*. 



15. P. Franklinii, Gray. Soft hirsute or pubescenl : stem simple ■ >r corymbose 

 . ai summit: leaves :e or twice pinnately divided or parted into numerous short 



