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commonly branching and leaves less dissected; corolla bluish or lavender; 
appendages wholly adnate.—Plains and valleys. 
5. P. malvaefolia Cham. Stinging Phacelia. Stems 4 dm. high, 
hispid-bristly throughout, the bristles with a conspicuous swollen base; 
leaves broadly ovate, truncate or cordate at base, slightly lobed and 
toothed; corolla white.—San Francisco Bay to S. Cal. 
6. P. californica Cham. Roc*k Phacelia. Stems erect, stout, 2.8 to 
5.7 dm. high, from a depressed leafy caudex; herbage hairy or hispid; 
leaves with a large terminal lobe and 1 to several pairs of much reduced 
lobes or leaflets below; spikes dense, usually in a cluster at the end of 
the stem; corolla purple or white, 16 mm. long; stamens exserted.— 
Rocky points and ledges. 
4. EMMENANTHE Benth. 
Leaves mostly alternate. Flowers bell-shaped, yellow or cream color, 
persistent. (Greek emmeno, to abide, and anthos, flower, the corolla not 
deciduous.) 
1. E. penduliflora Benth. Whispering Bells. Bushy plants 2 to 2.8 
dm. high; herbage somewhat sticky and soft hairy; leaves pinnatifid; 
flowers pendulous, 1.2 cm. long.—Montane, open slopes or in chaparral. 
5. ERIODICTYON Benth. 
Low shrubs with alternate leathery dentate leaves. Flowers in a ter¬ 
minal panicle, the branches coiled in the bud. Corolla funnelform, blue 
or white, without internal scales. Pod nearly or quite 2-celled by the 
meeting of the 2 placentae, 4-valved, the valves shortly beaked. (Greek 
erion, wool, and diktuon, a net, by reason of the netted woolly under¬ 
surface of the leaves.) 
L E. calif ornicum (PL & A.) Greene. Verb a Santa. Commonly 8 
to 12 dm. high; leaves very glutinous, oblong to oblanceolate, dentate ex¬ 
cept below, glabrous on the upper surface, the areas between the veins on 
the under surface with a close dense felt.—Dry mountain slopes and 
ridges, abundant and widely distributed. 
2. E. tomentosum Benth. Whole plant, even to the flowers, densely 
white woolly or in age rusty.—Mesas and hills, S. Cal. 
BORAGINACEAE. BORAGE FAMILY 
Herbs. Leaves simple, commonly entire, mostly alternate. Flowers 
regular, the parts in 5s, except the superior ovary which is 4-lobed, borne 
chiefly in 1-sided coiled spikes or racemes. Style 1. Fruit splitting into 
4 one-seeded nutlets.—Species 1500, temperate and tropical zones. 
Nutlets erect; annuals. 
Flowers white. 
Lowest leaves opposite. 1. Allocarya. 
Leaves mostly in a basal tuft.2. Plagiobothrys. 
Flowers yellow.-. 3. Amsinckia. 
Nutlets broad, depressed, covered all over with short barbed prickles : flowers blue ; 
perennials.-•.4. Cynoglossum. 
1. ALLOCARYA Greene 
Ours annuals with linear or narrow leaves, the lowest always opposite. 
Calyx persistent. Corolla white, with yellow throat, salverform with 
