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5-20 mm. long, glandular, calyx 10-12 mm. long, glandular-puberulent, teeth subulate about as 

 long as the tube; corolla pink, salverform, 3.5-4.5 cm. long, limb 1.5-2 cm. broad, lobes oblong- 

 obovate; style capillary, 2.5-3 cm. long. 



Dry slopes in open pine forests, Arid Transition Zone; San Bernardino Mountains, California. Type 

 locality: Bear Valley, San Bernardino County, as first delimited by Brand, Pflanzenreich 4^: 67. 1907. May- 

 July. 



5. Phlox speciosa Pursh. Showy Phlox. Fig. 3915. 



Phlox speciosa Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 149. 1814. 



Stems 2-4 dm. high, the foliose branches few to many from the branched woody base, erect, 

 more or less crisped-puberulent and glandular above, glabrous or nearly so below. Leaves 

 thinnish, linear-lanceolate, acuminate or long-acuminate, 2.5-5 cm. long, 2-5 mm. wide, the 

 lower nearly or quite glabrous, the upper glandular-puberulent with crisped hairs ; cymes few- 

 flowered, lower flowers leafy-bracted, pedicels 1^ cm. long; calyx 7-10 mm. long, glandular- 

 puberulent, the lobes linear, shorter than the tube; corolla bright pink, tube 1-1.5 cm. long, 

 limb 1.5-2 cm. broad, lobes obcordate or deeply 2-lobed ; style 2-4 mm. long. 



Grassy slopes. Arid Transition Zone; east of the Cascades, from Chelan County, Washington, to Wasco 

 County, Oregon, east to Montana. Type locality: "On the plains of the Columbia." Collected by Lewis, "prob- 

 ably on the Clearwater below Kamiah, Idaho." (Piper, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. U: 458. 1906.) May-June. 



Phlox speciosa subsp. lanceolata (E. Nels.) Wherry, Proc. Acad. Phila. 90: 133. 1938. (.Phlox lanccolata 

 E. Nels. Rev. W.N. Amer. Phloxes 29. 1899.) Stems usually 20-30 cm. high, rather stout, with short inter- 

 nodes, glandular-puberulent; leaves on flowering stems firm, lanceolate, only the upper acuminate, 2-6 cm. long, 

 S-10 mm. broad; corolla commonly white. On sagebrush or yellow pine slopes, Upper Sonoran and Arid Tran- 

 sition Zones; central Washington from Chelan County to Yakima County. Type locality: Ellensburg, Kittitas 

 County, Washington, 



Phlox speciosa subsp. occidentalis (Durand) Wherry, Proc. Acad. Phila'. 90: 133. 1938. (Phlox divari- 

 cata var. occidentalis Durand, op. cit. 3: 97. 1855.) Leaves a little thicker, somewhat coriaceous, and rather 

 short-acuminate, and the plants generally not as tall, averaging about 25 cm. This variant ranges from the 

 Cascades of northern Oregon to the Siskiyou Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, California. Type locality: 

 vicinity of Nevada City, Nevada County, California. 



Phlox speciosa subsp. nitida (Suksd.) Wherry, Proc. Acad. Phila. 90: 134. 1938. (Phlox speciosa var. 

 nitida Suksd. Deutsch. Bot. Monatss. 18: 132. 1900.) Plant glabrous or nearly so throughout, strongly woody 

 below, erect or spreading; leaves narrowly linear-lanceolate, 5-8 cm. long; pedicels almost filiform, 2.5-5 cm. 

 long; corolla-limb 2.5-3 cm. broad. Cascades of southern Washington to the Siskiyou Mountains, California. 

 Type locality: Klickitat County, Washington. 



Phlox speciosa subsp. lignosa Brand, Pflanzenreich A'^": 73, 74. 1907. (Phlox Whitedii E. Nels. Erythea 

 7: 167. 1899.) Plants lower and more compact, the stems usually about 20 cm. high with strong internodes; 

 leaves many, linear to lanceolate, mostly 1-1.5 cm. or rarely up to 3 cm. long. East of the Cascades from 

 Chelan County, Washington, to Wasco County, Oregon. Type locality: Wenatchee, Washington. 



6. Phlox aculeata A. Nels. Needle-leaved Phlox. Fig. 3916. 



Phlox aculeata A. Nels. Bot. Gaz. 52: 270. 1911. 



Stems compactly branched and tufted on the short-branched woody root crown, 5-15 cm. high, 

 glabrous and shining below, glandular-pubescent above. Leaves very narrowly subulate, 1.5-3 

 cm. long, barely 1 to 2 mm. wide, glabrous or sparsely villous on the margins, especially near 

 the base ; pedicels mostly about 5 mm. long, glandular-pubescent ; calyx 1 cm. long, glandular- 

 pubescent, lobes 4-5 mm. long, attenuate at apex, tube about equaling the lobes or shorter, the 

 scarious membrane between the ribs prominently carinate ; corolla lilac or blue, tube about 12 

 mm. long, limb 12-15 mm. broad, lobes blunt or emarginate at apex. 



Dry plains and bench-lands, LTpper Sonoran and Arid Transition Zones; eastern base of the Cascades, 

 Oregon, east to Idaho. Type locality: dry bench-lands near New Plymouth, Idaho. April-June. 



7. Phlox austromontana Coville. Western Mountain Phlox. Fig. 3917. 



Phlox austromontana Coville, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 4: 151. 1893. 



Phlox Douglasii var. austromontana Jepson & Mason in Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 786. 1925. 



Phlox austromontana subsp. vera Wherry, Journ. Wash. Acad. 29: 518. 1939. 



Plants cespitose with a woody caudex, 5-10 cm. high, the leafy branchlets canescent with 

 short spreading pubescence, not glandular. Leaves mostly 10-15 mm. long, acerose, ascending or 

 spreading in age, pubescent above, often glabrate below ; flowers solitary at the ends of the 

 branches; pedicels 4-8 mm. long; calyx 6-10 mm. long, the teeth acerose, a little longer than 

 the tube, strongly ribbed, villous on the margins, tube glabrous or /learly so, the thin membrane 

 between the ribs replicate; corolla white or purplish, tube 11-14 mm. long, lobes obovate, 5-7 

 mm. long ; styles shorter than the calyx. 



Dry gravellv flats and rocky ridges. Arid Transition Zone; San Gabriel Mountains to the Santa Rosa 

 and Cuvamaca Mountains, southern California; also southern Nevada, northern Arizona and southern Utah, and 

 San Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower California. Type locality: "in the nut-pine belt of the Beaverdam Moun- 

 tains, Utah." May-July. 



8. Phlox Douglasii Hook. Douglas' Phlox. Fig. 3918. 



Phlox Douglasii Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 2: 73. 1840. 



Plants rather loosely cespitose, 8-20 cm. high, the branches woody at base, spreading, herb- 

 age glandular-pubescent throughout. Leaves 8-12 mm. long, linear-subulate to narrowly sub- 

 ulate, firm with prominent midrib, pungent at apex ; flowers 1-3, terminating the branches, sessile 

 or short-pedicelled ; calyx 7-10 mm. long, the lobes about equaling the tube, spreading, glandu- 

 lar-villous, sinus narrow, ribs prominent; corolla pale pink to lilac or sometimes white, tube 



