PHACELIA FAMILY. 



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ascending or erect, 1 to 2 in. long, mostly rather short-peduncled, 

 usually in a paniculate cluster at the end of the stem; sepals oblong; 

 corolla purple or white, 3 lines long; filaments exserted, long-hairy 

 at the middle. 



Very common throughout our district on rocky points and ledges, 

 in typical form on the San Francisco Peninsula and in Marin Co. 

 May-June. Remarkable in its variability. 



Var. imbricata (P. imbricata Greene). Taller, often 2$ ft. high; 

 racemes 2 to 4 in. long, scattered in a looser panicle, less commonly 

 in 2's and 3's, and mostly on longer peduncles; corolla dingy white; 

 fruiting calyces ovate, conspicuously imbricated. — St. Helena; foot- 

 hills of the Vaca Mountains. 



12. P. nemoralis Greene. Stems 1 or few, simple below, panicu- 

 lately branched above, \\ to 3 ft. high, very bristly with stinging- 

 hairs; herbage light green; leaves elliptical to oblong, 1 to 4 in. long, 

 simple and entire or with a pair of small leaflets at base; radical and 

 lower leaves on petioles 2 to 3 in. long, uppermost short-petioled or 

 sessile; fully developed spikes 2 in. long or more, slender, in twos or 

 threes, terminating the stems or lateral branches; corolla whitish, 2 

 lines long, the flower otherwise as in no. 11, to which it is very closely 

 related; capsule 2-seeded. 



Shade of open woods: Forest Grove; Oakland; Berkeley; Petaluma. 

 June. 



13. P. Breweri Gray. Four to 7 in. high, diffusely branching at 

 the base, the stems slender and with rather long internod'es; herbage 

 harshly pubescent with rather short hairs; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 entire, cleft towards the base, 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 2£ lines long; 

 filaments glabrous, not exserted; capsule ovate, mostly 1-seeded. 



Confined to the Mt. Diablo Range: high dry slopes of Mt. Diablo, 

 ttn'irrr, Parry, Jepson; Mt. Hamilton, Miss Hblden ; May-June. 



5. EMMENANTHE Benth. 



Annuals. Corolla cream-color or yellow, campanulate, persistent; 

 not otherwise differing in technical character from Phacelia. (Greek 

 emmeno, to abide, and anthos, flower, the corolla not deciduous.) 



1. E. penduliflora Benth. Whispering Bklls. 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; placenta? conspicuously dilated in the axis; seeds 

 conspicuously pitted in somewhat regular lines. 



Higher slopes of the Coast Range Mountains in open places or in 

 the chaparral: Lower Lake Grade to Kelseyville; Vaca Mountains; 



