Macbride — Notes on the Hydrophyllaceae 29 
Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. iv. 215 (1912); subvar. topnalesles er 
except as to Austin specimen which is P. heterosepala Greene! — 
California, in the interior from Butte to San Pernitling Coane 
also Utah. — Utran: Diamond Valley, May 16, 1902, Goodding, no. 
823. Ca LIFoRNIA: Oroville, April 5, 1913, Heller, no. 10709; Cold 
Cafion, Butte Co., June, 1879, Mrs. R. M. Austi tin; Eldorado Co., 
April 6, 1911, Heller, no. 12283: Polasky, Madera, Co., April 11 
1906, Heller, no. 8146; Red Hill, Inyo Co., May , 1906, Heller, 
no. 8255: Caliente, Kern Co. , April 7 1905, Heller, no. 761 
var. heliophila, var nov., ‘divergenti-ramosa; corolla mene 
purpurea. — CALIFORNIA: gravelly open slopes, growing in clumps, 
Sunset, Kern Co., April 20, 1905, Heller, no. 7730 (Typr, Gray 
cant : 
Hubbyi, var. nov., annua, superne dense hirsuto-hispida; 
ocinie densissimis, pedicellis fructiferis fere erectis. — CaALI- 
FORNIA: Ojai Valley, May 20, 1896, Frank W. Hubby, no. 31 
(Typr, Gray Herb.); also nos. 35, 36; Santa Clara er. Ventura 
Co., May, 1885, Gray; 1884, Nevin, no. 8. 
The hirsute rather than hispid inflorescence with suberect pedi- 
cels suggests strongly P. tanacetifolia. Brand has written on the 
herbarium sheet of Mr. Hubby’s no. 35 “ this is nothing else than 
the genuine form of P. hispida!” a statement which serves to 
emphasize his misinterpretation of that species. Mr. Hubby 
called attention in a letter to the annual duration of his plant (for- 
bidding its reference to P. ramosissima) and to its apparent relation 
to P. hispida which he could not call it however because of the 
‘‘ much softer hairiness.” 
Ge ae uMBROSA Greene, Eryth. ii. 191 (1894). P. hispida 
ray, var. wmbrosa (Gree ne) B Brand, Pflanzenreich iv. 251. 88 
meee var. brachyantha Coville, Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. iv. 158 
(1893). P. cryptantha Greene, Pitt. v. 1 (1902). 
This plant seems to be se constantly from P. hispida 
by its very small flowers. Brand maintains the varieties cited on 
the degree of dilation of the sepals at apex. I fail to see even a 
varietal distinction in this variation. 
PHACELIA RAMOSISSIMA Dougl. ex Lehm. Pug. ii. 21 (1830). 
Examination of the ample material in the Gray Herbarium of this 
widely distributed perennial has disclosed the fact that several 
noteworthy variations of the typical form of the species occur and 
that these variations are coed with rather definite range- 
isolations. The clearest and simplest expression of this phenome- 
on may be had by the employment of a key to the several 
