CATALOGUE OF SPECIES. 151 



Swertla perennis L. Sp. PI. i. 226 (1753). Type locality European. 

 Whitnoy Meadows, Sierra Nevada (No. 1629). 



Frasara tubulosa Coville, Proe. Biol. Soc. Wash. vii. 71 (1802). Type locality as 

 given below. PLATE XIII. 



"Plant a biennial or short-lived perennial, in our specimens about 60 ciu. high; 

 stem stout, terete, glabrous, glaucous, about 6 mm. thick at the base; radical leaves 

 iu a dense rosette, lincar-obhinceolate, obtuse, mucronate, reaching 1 cm. in width 

 and 9 cm. in length, usually conduplicate and the apex recurved, thick, minutely 

 scabro-pubcrulent, glaucous in appearance, its margin white, cartilaginous, entire; 

 stem leaves similar, becoming smaller above, in whorls of 5 or 6; inflorescence a 

 narrow, spicate panicle 30 to 40 cm. long, interrupted below, its branches reaching 

 f> cm. in length, mostly shorter, erect; pedicels 2 to 20 mm. long, erect; sepals 4, 

 linear-subulate, 6 to 8 mm. long, often spinalose-denticuhite toward the base; petals 

 4, white, oblong-obovate, acuminate, 9 to 11 mm. long, slightly gibbous at the base; 

 eland on the face of the petal none, but represented by a tube of the same texture 

 and half as long as the corolla, inserted over the gibbosity at the base of the petal, 

 split about halfway to the base in a direction tangential to the axis of the flower, 

 the posterior lobe slightly larger and both lacerate-fimbriate; stamens 4, filaments 

 about as long as the sepals, anthers oval, 2 mm. long; ovary compressed, oblong- 

 lanceolate, tapering into 2 subulate, appressed styles, the whole equaling the sta- 

 mens; placenta; at the edges of the ovary, not intruded; ovules 6 to 10, oblong, very 

 Thin and fiat; stigmas reeurved-spreading, flat, hardly broader than the style; cap- 

 sule very flat; valves obovate-obloug, with callous, thickened margins and 1 median 

 nerve continued into the stiff, subulate, persistent style, the whole 12 to 14 mm. long; 

 seed single, lamelliform, oblong, minutely cellular-muricnlate, about 5 to 7 mm. long. 



" This plant differs from all other species of the genus in the apparent absence of 

 the petaline gland and in the presence of the tubular nectary described above. The 

 leaves are very similar to those of F. albomartjinata, while the form of the inflores- 

 cence resembles that of F. nilida and F. albUfiulis, 



•'Type specimen iu the United States National Herbarium, No. 1598, Death Valley 

 Expedition; collected August 17, 1891, in dry soil under Finns jeffreyi in the north- 

 east corner of the enclosure at Soda Springs, on the North Fork of Kern River, Sierra 

 Nevada, Tulare County, California." 



POLEMONIACE.51. 



Phlox austromontana sp. nov. 



Plant perennial, sufi'rutesrent, cespitoso, 5 to 10 cm. high, the stem, leaves, and 

 calyx minutely canescent-pubescent with glandless hairs; leaves acerose, commonly 

 1 to 1.5 cm. long, divergent at maturity ; calyx 6 to 9 mm. long, the tube oblong-tur- 

 binate slightly longer than the acerose lobes, the intercostal spaces occupied by a 

 replicate membrane; corolla white, or sometimes purplish, the tube 11 to 14 mm. 

 long, the lobes obovate, 5 to 7 mm. long; ovules 1 in each cell; capsule oblong, mucro- 

 nate, abont 5 mm. long, maturing only a single seed, this half surrounded by the 

 enlarged placental axis. 



Type specimen in the United States National Herbarium, No. 1944, Death Valley 

 Expedition; collected May 10, 1891, in the nut-pine belt of the Beaverdam Moun- 

 tains, Utah, by Vernon Bailey. 



This species resembles in form P. douglasii, but the pubescence and the marked mem- 

 branaceous replication of the calyx distinguish it. Specimens have been collected 

 near the summit of Cuyamaca Mountain by the Parish Brothers (No. 424, of 1880); 

 in Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mountains, at 7,000 feet altitude, by S. B. Parish 

 (No. 1839, of 1886) ; and by H. C. and C. R. Orcutt at Hanson's ranch, a short dis- 

 tance south of the national boundary, in Lower California l in 1884. The last speci- 

 men has more decidedly purplish flowers and glabrescent herbage. 



