106 University of California Puhlications . [botany 



Phlox austro-montana Cocille, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. iv. 151 



(1893). 



Collected only in Thomas Valley ; very common on Santa Rosa 

 Mt., the sontheastern continuation of the San Jacinto Range. 

 (No. 553.) 



HYDROPHYLLACE.^ . 



Eriodictyon Parryi {Gray) Greene, Pitt. ii. 22 (ISSO). Noma 



Parry i Gray. 

 A good-sized patch of this grows in the upper end of Straw- 

 berry Valley, where it puts out its first blossoms early in July. 

 (Nos. 332, 859, 972, 2502.) 



Since no complete description of this species has ever been 

 published the following field notes are added: Perennial and 

 somewhat woody below, where the stems are often 2 in. in 

 diameter and beset with undeveloped branches ; herbaceous above, 

 with numerous ascending branches; viscid-pubescent and ill- 

 scented: leaves 4-8 in. long, passing into bracts above, lanceo- 

 late, remotely sinuate-toothed, acute, tapering to the sessile base, 

 sometimes re volute: inflorescence a scorpoid cyme, varying from 

 a few inches to a foot and a half in length ; pedicels short : calyx 

 densely glandular- pubescent with long hairs; lobes linear from a 

 deltoid base, much longer than the shallow tube: corolla puple, 

 slightly and gradually expanding upward; lobes short and 

 rounded, not widely spreading; tube pubescent externally: 

 stamens inserted on lower half of tube, unequal, two being shorter 

 than the other three, all included: style 2-parted to the hairy 

 base, included; ovary hispid at summit; at maturity there is a 

 splitting of l)oth the valves and the placentae, so that a 4-valved 

 capsule is formed; seeds normalh' 16, ])ut many often fail to 

 develop, black, oval, transversely ridged. 



There are specimens of this plant now in the Herbarium of 

 the University of California as follows: San Jacinto Mt., as 

 given above; northern slope San Bernardino Mts., altitude 4000- 

 6000 ft. (S. B. Parish, no. 3691); Swarthout Cafion, San 

 Antonio Mts., altitude 6000 ft. (H. M. Hall, no. 1258) ; Palomar, 

 San Diego Co., altitude 5000 ft. (W. L. Jepson and H. M. Hall, 



