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PRIMULACEAE 



Plants mostly % to l^/i feet higli; umbels mostly 8 to 15-flowered; anthers 2 lines 



long, the connectives strongly rugose; mostly S. Cal. (cismontane) 



5. D. clevelandU. 

 Plants mostly 3 to 5 inches high; umbels 2 to 7-flowered; anthers 1 line long, the 

 connectives delicately rugulose ; mostly Great VaUey and bordering foot- 

 hill ranges 6. D. patulum. 



Root-crown with rice-grain bulblets ; herbage usually glabrous ; Coast Range and Sierra 

 Nevada foothills ; San Bernardino Mts 7. D. hendersonii. 



1. D. alpinum Greene. Alpine Shooting Star. (Fig. 318.) Scapes slender, 

 3 to 13 inches high; leaves 1 to 4 (or 5) inches long, the blades narrowly spatulate 

 or linear-oblanceolate, narrowed below to margined petioles; flowers mostly 4-mer- 

 ous; petals pink-crimson, the base whitish with a yellow zone edged beneath by a 



purple baud; anthers 3 to 4 lines long; style ex- 

 ceeding the anthers i/i to % line; capsule ex- 

 ceeding the calyx, valvate from the very apex. 

 High montane meadows, 7000 to 10,900 feet : 

 San Jacinto and San Bernardino mountains; 

 northern Veutura Co.; Sierra Nevada from 

 western Inj^o Co. and Tulare Co. to Modoc Co. ; 

 high North Coast Ranges from northern Hum- 

 boldt Co. to Siskiyou Co. North to Oregon. July. 

 Loes. — San Jacinto Mts. : Tahquitz Valley, Con- 

 dit; Round Valley, C. V. Meyer 560. San Bernardino 

 Mts.: Blufe Lake, Parish 3337; Bear Valley, Parish 

 3726 ; South Fork Mdws., Santa Ana Canon. Ventura 

 Co.: Sawmill Peak near Mt. Pinos, Hall 6520. Sierra 

 Nevada: Cottonwood Lakes, w. Inyo Co., W. P. Taylor; 

 East Fork Mdw., upper Kern Canon, Jepson 5046 ; un- 

 der West Vidette, Bubbs Creek, Jepson 821 ; Sonora 

 Pass, A. L. Grant 165; Pacific Valley, Alpine Co., Jep- 

 son 10,163 ; Fallen Leaf Lake, Eldorado Co., Ottley 870 ; 

 Squaw Peak, Placer Co., C. J. Fox; Brokeofif Mt. near 

 Lassen Peak, J. Grinnell; High Grade, Warner Mts. (n. 

 end), L. S. Smith 958. North Coast Ranges: South 

 Fork Mtn., Humboldt Co., Tracy 8930 ; Trinity Summit, 

 Manning ; Marble Mt., Chandler 1572. 



Refs. — DODECATHEON ALPINUM Greene, Erythea 

 3:39 (1895). B. meadia var. aXpinum Gray, Bot. Cal. 

 1:467 (1876), type loc. high Sierra Nevada; Syn. Fl. 

 2:57 (1878). V. jefreyi var. alpinum Gray, Bot. Gaz. 

 11:232 (1880). D. alpinum f. nanum Hall, Univ. Cal. 

 Publ. Bot. 4:205 (1912), type loc. Mt. Dana, Hall f 

 BabcocJc 3618 (typ. vidi), a dwarf alpine form, Mari- 

 posa Co. to Tulare Co. D. tetrandrum Suksd., Erythea 

 3:40 (1895), "throughout eastern Wash, and Ore.," Suksdorf et alii. D. jeffreyi var. tetrandrum 

 Jepson, Man. 754 (1925). D. suhalpinum Eastw., Lflts. W. Bot. 2:37 (1937), type loc. Silliman 

 Crest, Tulare Co., Derby {typ. vidi). 



2. D. Jeffrey! Moore. Sierra Shooting Star. (Fig. 319.) Scapes 9 to 15 

 (or 19) inches high; herbage glabrous or microscopically glandular-hirsutulose; 

 leaves 3 to 6 (or 11) inches long, the blades oblong-oblanceolate, gradually nar- 

 rowed below to a winged petiole % to i/4 as long; peduncles, pedicels and calyx 

 short-pubescent and somewhat viscid-glandular; flowers mostly 4-merous; corolla 

 8 to 12 lines long, the petals pink-crimson, a yellow zone at base edged below by a 

 purple band; anthers 4 lines long; style equaling the anthers or exceeding them lA 

 line; capsule broadly oblong, shorter than, rarely exceeding the calyx, valvate- 

 dehiscent from verj' apex, or from a circle just below the enlarged base of the style. 



High montane, along streams and in moist meadows : Sierra Nevada, (4700 or) 

 7000 to 10,000 feet, from Tulare Co. to Tuolumne Co.; White Mts.; North Coast 

 Ranges, 3500 to 7000 feet, from the Yollo Bolly Mts. to Siskiyou Co. North to 

 "Washington. June-Aug. 



Fig, 

 Greene. 



318. DODECATHEON ALPINUM 



a, base of plant, X % ; b, fl. 

 stem, X V2; c, stamen circle with as- 

 serted style, X 2; d, long. sect, of 

 ovary, X 2. 



