phacelia HYDROPHYLLACE.E 469 



base : spikes slender, often solitary, short and rather loosely flowered : calyx 

 of 4 spatulate and 1 larger obovate sepals: corolla obovate 2 lines long, 

 whitish : stamens and style included ; seeds small, alveolate. In shady 

 places along streams, southern Oregon to California. 



+-*«-■*- Leaves from simple and pinnately dentate or lobed to pin- 

 nately compound : flowers crowded in the scorpioid spikes. 



P. ramosissima Dougl. Hook. Fl. ii, 80. Stems rather stout and 

 branching, 1-3 feet long, spreading or ascending from a perennial root, 

 leaves pubescent, 5-9-lobed or divided into oblong or narrower pinnatifid 

 or incised divisions: inflorescence hispid; spikes glomerate, short and 

 dense, but little elorgated in age: flowers subsessile and in fruit ascending 

 on the rachis : calyx-lobes entire, linear-spatulate to obovate: corolla fun- 

 nelform, but little exceeding the calyx; the appendages within with a 

 truncate free apex: tilaments exserted, glabrous: capsule ovate or short- 

 ovoid, much shorter than the calyx; seeds oblong, rounded on the back. 

 On rocky hills and banks, eastern Oregon and Washington to California. 



P. ciliata Benth. Linn. Trans, xvii, 280. More or less pubescent: 

 stem erect or ascending, scabrous, 3-12 inches high, from an annual root: 

 leaves 1-3 inches long, pinnately parted or the lower divided and the upper 

 merely cleft; the oblong divisions or lobes pinnatifid-incised : spikes rather 

 short "and in fruit rather loose: pedicels short or hardly any ascending: 

 calyx-lobes from lanceolate to ovate, accrescent and becoming venose-reti- 

 culated in age, then sparingly ciliate with short rigid bristles, 4-5 lines long : 

 corolla but little surpassing the calyx, its appendages short and broad, 

 near the base of the tube : filaments not exceeding the corolla : capsule ovate, 

 mucronate, half as long as the fruiting calyx : seeds oval smoothish. Eas- 

 tern Oregon to California. 



§ Eutoca Gray Man. ed. 2, 329. Appendages of the mostly 

 campanulate corolla in the form of 10 vertical salient lamellae. 

 Capsule ovate or oblong. Ovules and seeds 6-50 on each placenta; 

 the testa areolate-reticulated or favose-pitted, but 'not transverse- 

 ly rugose. 



P. Bolanderi Gray Proc. Am. Acad, x, 322. Hispid with slender 

 bristles, also viscid-pubescent, especially above: stems several, from a peren- 

 nial root, stout, erect or ascending, 1-2 feet high, freely branching: radical 

 and lower cauline leaves lyrate, and oblong in outline, with 1 or 2 pairs of 

 small and incised lateral divisions: the terminal division and upper leaves 

 ovate or oval, coarsely incised or lobed, truncate or subcordate at base: 

 calyx-lobes hispid, at length spatulate, 3 or in fruit 4 lines long: corolla 

 nearly rotate when expanded, 8-12 lines in diameter, white or blue; its 

 appendages semi-ovate, almost as broad as long, distinctly connected at 

 base m front of the adnate and sparingly bearded filaments : stamens 

 about equalling the corolla; anthers oblong: style cleft nearly to the mid- 

 dle: capsule broadly ovate, acute, shorter than the calyx: seeds about 50 

 on each dilated placenta. Southern Oregon to California, near the coast. 



P. procera Gray Proc. Am. Acad, x, 323. Stems several from a 

 perennial root, erect, 3-7 feet high, minutely soft-pubescent; the summit 

 of the simple stems glandular but not hispid : leaves green and membran- 

 aceous, 2-5 inches long, ovate-lanceolate and ovate, acute, mostly laciniate- 

 pinnatifid or cleft; the lobes 2 to 4 pairs and acute : spikes of the glom- 

 erate or bifid cyme somewhat lengthened in age: calyx-lobes oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, minutely hispid : corolla ochroleucous, the semi-cordate oblique 

 appendages united over the base of the sparsely bearded filament: stamens 

 exserted : anthers oblong, style 2 cleft above the middle : capsule globular- 



