PHAOELIA FAMILY. 



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Gaviote Pass, Santa Barbara Co., Brewer, 1861; Monterey. McLean^ 

 1875. Infrequent northward: Oakland Hills. Also in the Sierni 

 Nevada. Not recorded from the region north of San Francisco Bay. 



3. ELLISIA L. 



Similar to Nemophila, but the leaves pinnately parted or bi- or tri- 

 pinnately dissected and the bractless flowers in axillary peduncled 

 racemes. Calyx without appendages at the sinuses, and usually much 

 enlarged under the fruit. Corolla white, campanulate, shorter or 

 little longer than the calyx, the internal appendages minute or none. 

 Anthers oval or oblong. Ovules 4 to 8. Seeds not carunculate. 

 (John Ellis, English botanist of the 18th century, whom Linnaeus 

 called a "bright star of natural history.") 



Leaves once pinnately parted; ovules 4, borne on the front of the placenta?. 



1. E. membranacea. 



Leaves twice to thrice pinnatifid; ovules 8, 2 on the front and 2 on the back 

 of each placenta 2. E. chrysanthemifolia. 



1. E. membranacea Benth. Stems procumbent, 1 to 2 ft. long; 

 herbage glaucous, the leaves with a few short scattered stiff hairs, the 

 stems with minute prickles on the angles; leaves pinnately divided 

 into 3 to 5 (or sometimes as many as 9) entire mostly broad divisions, 

 which are obtuse at apex and broadest at base; petiole wing-margined: 

 flowers racemose, few or many on the peduncles; calyx without 

 appendages, its lobes ciliate-bristly; corolla white with a small lance- 

 shaped purple spot in the center of each lobe, 2 lines broad, no scales 

 in the throat but with 10 glandular elevations; capsule with several 

 muricate prickles, 1 or 2-seeded; seed globose, reticulated. 



Shady places in the foothills: Antioch and Evergreen, Santa Clara 

 Co., southward to Southern California. Mar.-Apr. In vegetative 

 habit strikingly similar to Nemophila aurita. 



2. E. chrysanthemifolia Benth. Stem erect, freely branching, 1 

 to 2 ft. high; leaves tri-pinnatifid; flowers loosely racemose; corolla 

 open-campanulate, surpassing the oval calyx-lobes; the placenta? line 

 and exactly conform to the valves; two roughened seeds are borne on 

 the front of each placenta, and smooth ones are concealed behind 

 each placenta, that is, between the placenta and the valve. 



Shady ground: San Francisco Bay southward to Southern Cali- 

 fornia. Mar.-Apr. 



4. PHACELI A Juss. 



Perennial or annual herbs of marked aspect, with alternate leaves. 

 Flowers blue or white, in scorpioid spikes or racemes. Calyx chori- 

 sepalous or nearly so, commonly accrescent. Corolla from nearly 

 rotate to campanulate, tubular or funnelform, promptly deciduous, 

 the tube commonly with internal lamellate projections or appendages. 

 Stamens inserted on the base of the corolla. Style 2-cleft. Capsule 

 1-celled, 2-valved, the thin septa-like placenta 3 adherent. Seeds 

 reticulate-pitted or favose. (Greek phakelos, a cluster, many species 

 with crowded flowers.) 



P. namatoides Gray has mainly opposite leaves. — Sierra Nevada. 



