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ciliate, otherwise glabrous or sparingly gland alar-rougliened, mostly revolute 
on the margin ; tube of the white corolla a little exceeding the calyx, the 
lobes obovate, entire, 3" long ; ovules solitary. — From Colorado to Montana, 
Oregon and the Sierras. Clover Mountains, Nevada ; 10,000 feet altitude ; 
September. (890.) 
Var. EiGiDA, Gray. Depressed ; the ace rose-subulate leaves at length 
recurved -sjjreading, sjiaringly glandular- roughened. — Oregon, (Douglas.) 
Found on the highest peak of the Clover Mountains, Nevada; 11,000 feet 
altitude; September. (891.) A more pubescent form, coming near to P. 
Douglasii, was also collected on peaks of the East Humboldt Mountains, Ne- 
vada ; 9,000 feet altitude ; July. (892.) 
Phlox Douglasii, Hook. Grmj, I. c, p. 254. Resembling the last ; 
csespitose and very much branched, pubescent or nearly glabrous ; leaves 
rather rigid, acerose, usually spreading, less dense, the margins either naked 
or hirsutish-ciliate at the base ; flowers subsessile ; corolla purple or white, 
the tube more or less exceeding the calyx, the lobes obovate, entire, 3" long ; 
ovules solitary. — From the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Montana to the 
Sierras and Washington Territory. In canons near Carson City, Nevada ; 
April, at 5,000 feet altitude, with the ciliation on the calyx and at the base 
of the leaves more than usually webby ; also at the head of Provo Caiion in 
the Uintas, at 9,000 feet altitude ; July. (893.) 
Var. LONGiFOLiA, Gray. Branches usually erect from a prostrate rhi- 
zoma ; leaves very narrowly or acerose-linear, 5-8" long, less fascicled. — Ap- 
proaching P. longifolia, and occurring " east of the Rocky Mountains and in 
Utah." Not in the collection. 
Phlox longifolia, Nutt. Graij, I c, p. 255. Perennial, woody only at 
base, glabrous or pubescent ; stems erect or ascending, 2-12' high ; leaves 
slightly rigid, not fascicled, spreading, very narrowly or narrowly linear or 
sometimes lanceolate, 1-3' long; flowers solitary or subcymose, long-pedun- 
cled ; calyx-tube usually angled to the base by the infolding of the scarious 
intercostal membranes ; corolla white or pink, the tube exceeding the narrow- 
subulate calyx-teeth, the lobes obovate- or obloug-cuneate, entire or refuse ; 
style elongated and frequently equaling the tube ; ovules almost always soli- 
tary. — From the Rocky Mouutains of Colorado to Wa.-<hinirtou Territory and 
the Sierras. A smooth form was collected in the East Humboldt Mountains ; 
8-9,000 feet altitude ; July. (894.) 
