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HYDROPHYLLACE^E. 



(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 

 ochroleucous or bluish; calyx-lobes linear-spatulate to obovate, twice 

 the length of the capsule or longer; seeds oblong, 1 line long. 



Colusa and Lake Cos. southward to Santa Cruz; Sierra Nevada. 

 June- July. 



7. P. distans Benth. Hill Vervenia. Erect and strict, or 

 branching and diffuse, 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-cam panulate, sordid white or violet; internal appendages seini- 

 ovate with free tips; stamens little or not at all surpassing the corolla- 

 lobes; capsule globose. 



Higher hills of the Coast Ranges from Napa Valley to Mt. Tamal- 

 pais. the ocean at Bodega (where first collected), and southward. 

 Apr. 



8. P. tanacetifolia Benth. Valley Vervenia. Stouter than 

 P. distans, erect, less frequently branching, the leaves similar but 

 commonly less finely dissected; racemes 3 or 4 in. long, ascending and 

 approximate; sepals linear, beset with rigid bristles, in fruit little 

 exceeding the oval capsule; corolla open-campanulate, 3 to 4 lines 

 long, lavender-color or bluish; internal appendages entirely adnate 

 by the inner margins; stamens much exserted. 



Plains and valleys: Marysville Buttes; Sacramento Valley; Vallejo, 

 Greene, 1874; Tracy. Apr. 



9. P. malvaefolia Cham. Stinging Phacklia. About H ft. 

 high, hispid-bristly throughout, the bristles with a conspicuous pustu- 

 late base; leaves simple, petiolate, round- or elliptic-ovate with broad 

 and frequently truncate or cordate base, slightly 5 to 9-lobed, toothed. 

 1 to 3 in. long; spikes solitary or geminate; corolla longer than the 

 unequal linear-spatulate sepals; stamens exserted; capsule 2-seeded; 

 seeds pitted. 



Near the coast: Oakland; Angel Island; San Francisco and south- 

 ward. 



10. P. Rattani Gray. Similar but the spikes more slender and 

 elongated; four of the sepals spatulate, one obovate and longer; 

 corolla but 2 lines long. 



Russian River, near Ukiah, Rattan, June, 1884; northern Sonoma 

 acc. to Greene. 



11. P. Californica Cham. Erect, stout, 1} to 2 ft. high, from a 

 branched but depressed leafy woody caudex; stems and petioles with 

 scattered hispid hairs; the foliage strigose, either green or canescent; 

 leaves pinnate or pinnatifid, the large terminal lobe elliptic to 

 lanceolate, with 1 to several pairs of smaller or much reduced leaflets 

 or lobes below, or entire; petioles commonly long; spikes dense, 



