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Dorrington, Calaveras Co. 4800 ft. Corolla essentially glabrous (obscurely and minutely pubescent outside, the palate weakly and obscurely hairy) Dry flats or somewhat moist soil. Lower pair st. [stamens] exserted, upper much exserted! No. 10,052. Pleuricosphora fimbriolata Gray. Roots apparently very deeply seated. Petals 4, distinct or essentially so. Sepals 4, distinct. Stamens 8. Petals and sepals a little laciniate toothed, saliently and remotely so but rather inconspicuously so. Plants white, the stems in clusters. Placentae 8. No. 10,053. Lappula velutina Piker. Cor. [corolla] purple-blue; corona at throat of 5 distinct conspicous [sic] white 2-lobed crests. Nutlets spiny over back and especially the marginal angles; spines hooked-barbed at tip. Stamens 5, spreading horizontally!in tube, on very short filaments. Cont. p. 44.
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Aug. 7, 1923 No. 10,054. Phacelia griseophylla (Brand). This form remarkable for its few simple erect and rather short stems. Opens on borders of forest, sandy soil. No. 10,055. Sidalcea glaucescens Greene. This form is remarkable for the number of leaves with nearly distinct divisions which it bears. The flowers are very scattered, very loose; they look quite unlike, not at all like S. malvaeflora. The stems are decumbent or ascending, many from a branched but very compact root-crown which is marvelously though and hard, especially hard. It ranges as high Silver Valley. - Gayophytum ramosissimum Cont. no. 10,049. It is very wonderful to see a slope covered with this plant burst into flower from closed buds
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