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to 24 cm. high; corolla bright blue, or center white, or whole corolla pale 
and often dotted, 1.2 to 2.4 cm. wide.—Moist places in the valleys and on 
the hills. (N. insignis of authors.) 
3. N. parviflora Dough Small-Flowered Nemophila. Stems slen¬ 
der and weak, trailing or procumbent; leaves mostly pinnately 3 to 5- 
lobed but variable; corolla white or whitish, 4 to 10 mm. in diameter.— 
Wooded hills. 
2. ELLISIA L. 
Leaves pinnately 1 to 3 times parted or dissected. Flowers in axillary 
peduncled racemes. Calyx without appendages at the sinuses. Corolla 
white, campanulate, shorter or little longer than the calyx, the internal 
apoendages minute or none. (John Ellis, English botanist of the 18th 
century.) 
Leaves once pinnately parted: ovules 4, borne on the front of the placentae. 
1. E. membranacea. 
Leaves twice to thrice pinnatifid ; ovules 8, 2 on the back and 2 on the front of 
each placenta..2. E. chrysanthemifolia. 
1. E. membranacea Bentb. Stems procumbent, 2.8 to 5.7 dm. long; 
leaves pinnately parted into 3 to 9 broad divisions; corolla 4 mm. broad.— 
Shady places in the foothills, San Francisco Bay to S. Cal. 
2. E. chrysanthemifolia Benth. Stem erect, freely branching, 2.8 to 
5.7 dm. high.—Shady ground, San Francisco Bay to S. Cal. 
3. PHACELIA Juss. 
Leaves alternate or basal. Flowers blue or white in coiled spikes or 
racemes. Calyx of nearly distinct sepals. Corolla from rotate to tubular, 
with internal appendages at base. (Greek phakelos, a cluster, many 
species with crowded flowers.) 
Annuals. 
Ovules usually more than 2 to each placenta; style bifid or cleft near the 
apex. .1. P. divaricata. 
Ovules always 2 to each placenta. 
Stamens not or scarcely exserted. 
Capsule ovate, mucronate; corolla blue.2. P. ciliata. 
Capsule globose ; corolla sordid white.3. P. distans. 
Stamens exserted. 
Leaves divided ; racemes 7.5 to 10 cm. long, ascending and approxi¬ 
mate.......4. P. tanacetifolia. 
Leaves simple ; spikes solitary or geminate.5. P. malvaefolia. 
Perennial or biennial; petioles long; spikes short-peduncled.6. P. californica. 
1. P. divaricata (Benth.) Gray. Stems diffusely branched, 7.2 to 
24 cm. long; leaves ovate to oblong, entire or rarely with a pair of sup¬ 
plementary lobes at base ; corolla blue, open-campanulate, 1.2 to 1.8 cm. 
broad.—Open hillsides about San Francisco Bay. 
2. P. ciliata Benth. Branched from the base; herbage scabrous; fruit¬ 
ing sepals chartaceous, oblong to broadly ovate, twice as long as the 
pod; seeds with honeycomb-like pits.—Valleys. 
3. P. distans Benth. Vervenia. Erect or diffuse, 1.4 to 3.3 dm. high; 
herbage hispid and pubescent; leaves finely dissected; corolla rotate-cam- 
panulate, 6 to 8 mm. long ; appendages with free pointed apex.—Hillsides. 
4. P. tanacetifolia Benth. Fiddle-neck. Similar to the last, but less 
