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No. 5558. Helianthemum scoparium Nutt. var. vulgare Jepson. Petals 5, yellow, cuneate-deltoid. Stamens all turned to one side of corolla. -- Waterman Canon. No. 5559. Solanum Douglasii Gray. Waterman Canon. Perennial. No. 5560. Phacelia ramosissima Dougl. San B. valley. No. 5561. Gilia virgata Stend., var. dasyantha (Brand.) San B.val. east end. No. 5562. Gilia latiflora Gray. San B. val. east end. No. 5563. Eriogonum thurberi Det. O.K. S.G.S. Santa Ana River bottom, San B. val. east end. No. 5564. Dicentra chrysantha H. & A. Slender, 4 to 5 ft. tall. Fls. lemon-yellow. Sepals saccate at base, the spreading tips with corrugate involute edges. Petals with the spoon-shaped tips and ridge-like crests down middle of back Fils united in sets of 3, widened at base into a corky sac. Stigma flattened between the spoons, so: [see image for drawing] = stigma
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No. 5565, Chorizanthe staticoides. [Benth.] San B. valley, Santa Ana River bottom. No. 5566. Phacelia whitlavia Gray. San B. valley, east end. = P. minor Thell. No. 5567. Ceanothus crassifolius Torr. Santa Ana River bottom, east end San B. valley. No. 5568. Ceanothus divaricatus Nutt. [oliganthus Nutt.] [leucodermis Gr.] Shrubs 4 to 6, abundant in Mill Creek Canon, forming one of the most important constituents of the chaparral. Blue-flowered and white-flowered. The former mostly on the sunnier slope, the slopes mostly blue or mostly white. In places the flowering was at its height and exquisitely beautiful, the shrubs being covered with thousands of soft-blue racemes.
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