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4. P. brachyloba Gray. Branched at the base, the branches erect or 

 ascending, 12 to 15 in. high; herbage pubescent and glandular, very sweet- 

 scented; leaves elliptic to oblong, coarsely and sometimes doubly toothed, 1 

 to 2 in. long, on petioles nearly as long; racemes solitary or in pairs, dense; 

 sepals spatulate. entire, in fruit much exceeding the capsules; corolla pale blue, 

 3 lines broad, the tube yellowish, 4 lines long, devoid of scales or crests; 

 stamens unequal and unequally coherent with tube; capsule 12 to 16-seeded; 

 seed oval, the coat pitted like a honeycomb. — (P. suaveolens Greene.) 



North Coast Ranges (Yaca Mts., Mt. Hood Range, Mt. Tamalpais) ; Mon- 

 terey and Southern California. A rare plant within our limits. 



P. whitlavia Gray. Loosely branching, hirsute glandular annual, ^ to 

 1 ft. high; corolla violet-purple, broadly cylindraceous, 9 or 10 lines long, its 

 lobes % to V-2 the 

 the filaments hairy 



P. bolaxderi Gray. Stoutish 1 to 2 ft. high; leaves oblong with 1 or 2 

 pairs of small divisions at base; inflorescence at length geminate-racemose; 

 corolla nearly rotate, very pale blue or white, y 2 to 1 in. wide; stamens some- 

 what exserted, sparingly hairy; style cleft to middle or below. — Rocky soil or on 

 cliffs: Hubbard's Station near main Eel River south to Signal Ridge (Men- 

 docino Co.). Odor disagreeable. Imparts a brown stain to paper in drying. 



5. P. ciliata Benth. Branched from the base with rather simple ascending 

 branches, 9 to 14 in. high; herbage scabrous, otherwise glabrous; leaves pin- 

 nately divided, the divisions oblong, toothed or incised; spikes in terminal 

 clusters or geminate or solitary; sepals in fruit oblong to broadly ovate, char- 

 taceous, 3 to 4 lines long, with thickened margins and prominent midrib and 

 reticulations, sparsely bristly-ciliate ; corolla blue; capsule ovate, mucronate; 

 sepals in fruit twice as long, arched over the capsule, their tips meeting; seeds 

 broadly oblong, over 1 line long, the surface with regular or honeycomb-like 

 pits. 



Valley fields: Sacramento Valley; South Coast Ranges (Newark, Belmont, 

 Monterey) ; Southern California. Sometimes locally abundant. Apr.-May. 



6. P. ramosissima Dougl. Perennial, somewhat diffuse; herbage some- 

 what glandular; hispid throughout and soft-pubescent (or only the leaves 

 hispid) ; leaves pinnately divided into 5 to 9 oblong and serrate or incised 

 divisions, the lower distinct, the upper more or less confluent; stamens and 

 style somewhat exserted; corolla yellowish white or bluish; calyx-lobes linear- 

 spatulate to obovate, twice the length of the capsule or longer; seeds oblong, 

 1 line long. 



Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada, south to Southern California and north to 

 Washington. 



P. hispida Gray. Caterpillar Phacelia. Diffusely branched Borage-like an- 

 nual with long slender white bristles ; corolla pale blue, campanulate, the stamens 

 not or scarcely exserted. — Santa Barbara to San Diego. 



7. P. distans Benth. Vervexia. Erect and strict, or branching and dif- 

 fuse, 8 to 13 in. high; herbage with scattered hispid hairs and close fine 

 pubescence; leaves pinnately divided, the divisions commonly linear, once or 

 twice pinnately and (for the most part) finely dissected; spikes scattered, 

 solitary or geminate; sepals unequal, narrowly obovate to spatulate, rarely 

 linear; corolla 3 to 4 lines long, rotate-campanulate, sordid white or violet ; 

 internal appendages semi -ovate with free tips; stamens little or not at all 

 surpassing the corolla-lobes; capsule globose. 



