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to broadly elliptical, 1-5 mm. long, glandular-pubescent; inflorescence a compact cyme; pedicels variable, but 

 commonly shorter than the calyx; bracts entire to pinnatifid, glandular-pubescent; calyx campanulate, 4-8 mm. 

 long, the lobes equaling the tube, glandular-pubescent; corolla campanulate to rotate-campanulate, 8-11 mm. long, 

 almost as broad, the rotund, obtuse, blue lobes subequaling the yellow tube; stamens inserted half way up the 

 tube, pubescent at the base, equaling or slightly exceeding the corolla; ovary and style shorter than the corolla. 

 Cascade and Olympic Ranges, from 5,000 to 9,500 feet altitude. Type locality: Goat Mountain, Washington. 



7. Polemonium elegans Greene. Elegant Polemonium. Fig. 3893. 



Polemonium elegans Greene, Pittonia 3: 305. April 8, 1898. 

 Polemonium bicolor Greenm. Bot. Gaz. 25: 262. April 15, 1898. 



Perennial, dwarf, cespitose, 5-12 cm. high, the basal leaves half as high, densely glandular, 

 pubescent. Leaflets crowded, obovate to rotund, rarely lobed, and then the sinuses not to the 

 base, 2-4 mm. long; inflorescence a subcapitate cyme; pedicels shorter than the calyx; bracts 

 pinnatifid, glandular-pubescent; calyx narrowly campanulate, 5 mm. long, the lobes slightly 

 shorter than the tube, densely glandular-pubescent; corolla funnelform, to 14 mm. long, the 

 obovate, blue lobes rounded at the apex, half as long as the yellow tube; stamens inserted half 

 way up the tube; filaments pubescent at base, shorter than the corolla; ovary and style shorter 

 than the corolla. 



Mountain slopes, 7,000 to 9,000 feet altitude, Arctic-Alpine Zone; Cascade and Wallowa Mountains, Wash- 

 ington and Oregon. Type locality: Mount Rainier, Washington. July-Aug. 



8. Polemonium eximium Greene. Sierra Polemonium or Sky-Pilot. Fig. 3894. 



Polemonium eximium Greene, Pittonia 3: 305. 1898. 



Polemonium confertum var. eximium Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 783. 1925. 



Perennial, 10-27 cm. high, cespitose from a woody caudex. Leaves mostly basal, few on 

 the floriferous branches ; petioles expanded at the base, but not chartaceous, rachis rigid in age ; 

 leaflets small, 3-5-parted, from 0.5-5 mm. long, the lobes spatulate to oblanceolate, glandular- 

 ciliate ; inflorescence subcapitate in flower, also in fruit ; pedicels shorter than the calyx ; bracts 

 lobed to entire; calyx narrowly campanulate, 5-10 mm. long, lobes slightly shorter than the 

 tube, narrowly elliptical, rounded at apex, densely glandular-pubescent; corolla narrowly 

 funnelform to cylindrical, with rotate limbs, 12-15 mm. long, 10-15 mm. broad, the blue 

 spreading rounded lobes from one-third to one-half the length of the tube ; stamens inserted one- 

 quarter the way up the tube, pubescent at the base, slightly exceeding the tube but shorter than 

 the corolla ; ovary and style shorter than the corolla. 



Rocky ledges, Hudsonian and Arctic-Alpine Zones- high peaks of the Sierra Nevada from Mount Conness, 

 Tuolumne County to Mount Whitney, Tulare County, California. Type locality: Mount Conness, altitude 12,000 

 feet. June-July. 



9. Polemonium viscosum Nutt. Skunk Polemonium. Fig. 3895. 



Polemonium viscosum Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. II. 1: 154. 1848. 

 Polemonium confertum A. Gray, Proc. Acad. Phila. 15: 73. 1863. 



Perennial, 1-5 dm. high from a persisent rhizome. Leaves mostly basal, few on the florifer- 

 ous branches, petioles expanded at the base, chartaceous, the rachis rigid and persistent in age; 

 leaflets 3-5-parted appearing verticillate, the lobes elliptic, 1-10 mm. long and 0.5-4 mm. wide, 

 glandular-ciliate to glabrous on the margin; inflorescence subcapitate at anthesis, becoming a 

 spicate raceme in fruit; pedicels shorter than the calyx; bracts pinnatifid; calyx narrowly 

 campanulate, 8-16 mm. long, the lobes one-third the length of the tube, lanceolate, acute, densely* 

 glandular-pubescent; corolla narrowly funnnelform with subrotate limbs, 17-35 mm. long, 

 10-20 mm. broad, blue or occasionally white, the rotund lobes about one-third the length of the 

 tube; stamens inserted half way up the tube, pubescent to glabrous at the base, slightly 

 exceeding the tube, but shorter than the corolla. 



Rocky ledges, Arctic- Alpine Zone; Cascade and Rocky Mountains, British Columbia, south to the Cascades, 

 Washington, and to the Wallowa Mountains, northeastern Oregon, and in the Rocky Mountains to Idaho, Utah, 

 and Colorado. Type locality: "towards the sources of the Platte." June-Aug. 



10. Polemonium chartaceum H. L. Mason. Mason's Polemonium. Fig. 3896. 



Polemonium chartaceum H. L. Mason in Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 783. 1925. 



Perennial, 10-30 cm. high, from a woody caudex, stems several, erect, cespitose, leafy; 

 petioles with a broad sheathing chartaceous base, rachis not rigid in age. Leaflets small, 3-5- 

 lobed, the lobes spatulate, 0.5-3 mm. long, glandular-pubescent; inflorescence subcapitate, 

 pedicels about half the length of the calyx ; bracts pinnatifid, glandular-pubescent ; calyx narrowly 

 campanulate, 6-8 mm. long, the rounded obtuse lobes shorter than the tube, glandular-pubescent ; 

 corolla funnelform. lobes rotate, 11-13 mm. long, about as broad, the rounded, obtuse, blue lobes 

 one-third the length of the white tube; stamens inserted one-quarter of the way up the tube, 

 pubescent at the base, subequaling the corolla, much exceeding (4 mm.) the tube; ovary and 

 style subequaling the stamens. 



„,, .Rocky ledges, Hudsonian and Arctic-Alpine Zones; Mount Eddy, altitude 6,000 feet. Siskiyou County, and 

 White Mountain Peak, altitude 14,000 feet. Mono County, California. Type locality: White Mountain Peak, 

 14,230 feet. June-Aug. 



2. COLLOMIA Nutt. Gen. 1: 126. 1818. 



Erect, spreading, decumbent, prostrate or rhizomatous annuals or perennials. Stems 

 simple or branched. Leaves linear or lanceolate and entire or variously lobed, toothed or 



