PHACETJA FAMILY. 3 L3 



or the lowermost and radical pinnately divided; racemes slender and lax, 2 or 



3 in. long, often geminate at the ends of the branches; sepals linear; corolla 

 2 to 2iA lines long; filaments glabrous, not exserted; capsule ovate, mostly 

 1 -seeded. 



High dry slopes of the South Coast Eanges: Mt. Diablo; Mt. Day, Dr. IL J. 

 Smith; Mt. Hamilton; Coyote Creek westerly to Santa Cruz and south to 

 Monterey (Erythea, i, 93). 



5. EMMENANTHE Benth. 



Annuals. Corolla cream-color or yellow, campanulate, persistent; not other- 

 wise differing in technical character from Phacelia. (Greek emmeno, to abide, 

 and anthos, flower, the corolla not deciduous.) 



1. E. penduliflora Benth. Whispering Bells. Erect, usually much 

 branched from the base, 8 to 14 in. high, villous-pubescent and somewhat 

 viscid; lobes of the pinnatifid leaves numerous, short, toothed or incised; 

 racemes loose, straight, ascending, panicled at summit of the. stem; pedicels 

 filiform, as long as the flowers, these soon pendulous; calyx with ample ovate 

 divisions; corolla broadly campanulate, 4 to 5 lines long, the filaments adnate 

 to the very base; style deciduous; placentae conspicuously dilated in the axis; 

 seeds conspicuously pitted in somewhat regular lines. 



Higher slopes of the Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada, in open places or in 

 chaparral, and southward to Southern California. Common. June- July. 



6. ROMANZOFFIA Cham. 



Low and delicate perennial herbs with the aspect of some species of Saxi- 

 fraga. Stems somewhat scape-like, loosely racemose. Leaves mostly radical 

 (the cauline alternate), round-cordate, crenately lobed, long-petioled. Flowers 

 white. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla broadly funnelform, destitute of appendages, 

 deciduous. Stamens unequal, inserted on the base of the corolla-tube. Style 

 filiform, entire; stigma small. Capsule 2-celled or nearly so, with narrow 

 placentae. Seeds numerous. (Count Eomanzoff, promoter of the Eussian 

 voyage of Kotzebue; dedicated to him by Chamisso, the German poet, who ac- 

 companied the expedition as botanist.) 



1. R. sitchensis Bong. Filiform rootstock bearing tubers; stems slender, 

 4 to 9 in. high; pedicels spreading, much longer than the flowers; calyx-lobes 

 linear or lanceolate, not more than % as long as the corolla and exceeded by 

 the capsule. 



On moist rocks in shady places near the coast : San Mateo Co. and Mt. Tamal- 

 pais northward to southeastern Alaska. Eare within our limits. 



7. ERIODICTYON Benth. 



Low shrubs. Leaves alternate, pinnately veined, finely reticulated, coriaceous, 

 dentate, and petiolate. Inflorescence a terminal, usually naked, panicle of 

 scorpioid cymes. Sepals narrow, not dilated above. Corolla funnelform to 

 campanulate, its tube without appendages. Filaments more or less adnate 

 to the tube of the corolla, little or not at all exserted, sparsely hirsute. Ovary 

 nearly or quite 2-celled by the meeting of the dilated placentae in the axis; 

 styles 2, distinct. Capsule 2 lines long or less, first loculicidal, then septicidal, 

 thus 4-valved, each valve with a short beak or acumination and closed on one 

 side by the adherent dissepiment or half-partition. (Greek erion, wool, and 

 diktuon, a net, by reason of the netted woolly under surface of the leaves.) 



1. E. californicum (H. & A.) Greene. Xebba Santa. Mountain Balm. 

 Shrub, commonly 3 to 4 ft. high; leaves oblong to oblaucoolate, tapering below 



