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spatulate, nearly or quite 6 lines long, twice or thrice the length of 

 the capsule, hirsute or hispid with long spreading hair.-, especially 

 toward the base; corolla dull white (?), narrowly funnelform, 2 J bo 

 3 lines long; capsule ovate, acute or nmcronate, 6 to lti-seeded; seeds 

 scrobiculate. 



Mt. Hamilton; near the summit of Mt. Diablo; Mariposa Co.. ace 

 to Brandegee; the only reported stations. 



3. P. divaricata (Benth.) Gray. Dift'usely branched from the 

 base, the branches 3 to 10 in. long or more; herbage both pubes- 

 cent and hirsute; leaves from ovate to broadly oblong, 1 to 2 in. 

 long, equaling or exceeding the petioles, entire or rarely with a pair 

 of supplementary lobes at summit of the petiole; pedicels about a 

 line long; sepals in fruit linear, 4 to 6$ lines long, sparsely hispid- 

 ciliate, with somewhat thickened margins and prominent midnerve 

 and cross-veins; corolla blue, broadly open-campanulate, 6 to 9 line- 

 broad; style 2-cleft at apex; seeds 7 to 10, somewhat pitted. 



Common on open hillsides in the Coast Ranges of middle Califor- 

 nia: Mt. Diablo, Brewer, McLean; Oakland Hills, Setchell, Davy; 

 Crystal Springs, Bolander; Sausalito. Kellogg and Harford; Mt. 

 Tamalpais. Mar. -Apr. 



4. P. suaveolens Greene. Branched at the base, the branches 

 erect or ascending, 12 to 15 in. high; herbage pubescent and glandu- 

 lar, very sweet-scented; leaves elliptic to oblong, coarsely and some- 

 times 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 un- 

 equal and unequally coherent with tube; capsule 12 to 16-seeded: 

 seed oval, the coat pitted like a honeycomb. 



North Coast Ranges, uncommon: Mt. Tamalpais. Jepson, 1891; 

 Petrified Forest, Sonoma Co., Greene, 1888; Vaca Mountains. Piatt. 

 1898. June. Closely allied to the southern P. brachvloba Gray, 

 acc. to Mrs. K. Brandegee. 



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

 ascending branches, 9 to 14 in. high; herbage scabrous, otherwise 

 glabrous; leaves pinnately divided, the divisions oblong, toothed or 

 incised; spikes in terminal clusters or geminate or solitary; sepals in 

 fruit oblong to broadly ovate, chartaceous, 3 to 4 lines long, with 

 thickened margins and prominent midrib and reticulations, sparsely 

 bristly-ciliate; corolla blue; capsule ovate, nmcronate; .-epals in fruit 

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

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

 comb-like pits. 



Plains and valleys: AVillows; Solano Co.; Antioch and southward; 

 abundant on grain farms near Newark, imparting a blue color to the 

 fields, the odor very noticeable, Miss Crocker; Belmont. Apr. -May. 



6. P. ramosissima Dougl. Perennial (?), somewhat diffuse; 

 herbage somewhat glandular; hispid throughout and soft- pubescent 



