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Locs. — Sierra Nevada : Hockett Mdws., Tulare Co., Culbertson 4380 ; Round Mdw., Giant 

 Forest, Jepson 674 ; Huckleberry Mdws. near Grant Park, Newlon 208 ; Huntington Lake, Fresno 

 Co., A. L. Grant 1022 ; Hog Eaneh, near Hetch-Hetchy, A. L. Grant 973 ; Piute Mt., Tuolumne Co., 

 Jepson 4578; Eancheria Mt., Tuolumne Co., Jepson 3405 (4, 5 and 6-merous flowers may be found 

 on a single individual) ; White Wolf, Tioga Eoad, H. M. Evans; Herring Creek, Tuolumne Co., 

 A. L. Grant 107. North Coast Eanges: South YoUo BoUy, Jepson 14,589; High Prairie, Bald 

 Mt., Humboldt Co., Tracy 8340 ; Trinity Summit, Jepson 2105 ; Devils Canon Mts., Trinity Co., 

 Tracy 14,602; Marble Mt., w. Siskiyou Co., Chandler 1573; Summit Valley, Del Norte Co., B. 

 Van Deventer 163. 



Var. redolens Hall. Mountaineers Shooting Star. Scapes 10 to 27 inches high; herbage 

 odorous ; leaves 6 to 19 inches long, often nearly equaling the scape, sometimes glandular, the 

 blades oblong, acutish, gradually narrowed below to broad petioles about as long ; flowers mostly 

 5-merous; corolla pink or purple with a yellow band below the white or whitish base, 7 to 13 lines 

 long, not closely reflexed as in the species, but covering the base of the anthers ; style exserted 1 

 to 2 lines.— Wet meadows, 7000 to 12,000 feet : San Jacinto 

 Mts. ; San Gabriel Mts. ; Sierra Nevada from Tulare Co. to 

 Mariposa Co. ; White Mts. Western Nevada. 



Loos. — S. Cal.: Deer Sprs., San Jacinto Mts., C. V. 

 Meyer 544 ; Prairie Fork, San Gabriel Eiver, Peirson 2516. 

 Sierra Nevada : Mt. Whitney, Jepson 1068 ; upper Kern 

 Canon, Jepson 5045; Giant Forest, K. Brandegee; Kaiser 

 Peak, A. L. Grant 1441 ; Eagle Peak Mdws., Yosemite, Hall 

 9203. White Mts. : Poison Creek, Jepson 7376. Nev. : Lee 

 Canon, Charleston Mts., Heller 11,027. 



Befs. — DODECATHEON JEFFREYI Moore; Van Houtte, 

 Fl. des Serres 16:99, t. 1662 (1867), based on a garden 

 plant cultivated in Europe, the original collection by Jef- 

 frey doubtless made in the Cascade Mts. ; Jepson, Man. 

 753 (1925). Meadia jeffreyi Ktze., Rev. Gen. PI. 2:398 

 (1891). D. meadia var. lancifolium Gray, Bot. Cal. 1:467 

 (1876). D. jeffreyi f. pygmaeum Hall, Univ. Cal. Publ. 

 Bot. 4:203 (1912), type loc. Pyramid Peak, Lake Tahoe, 

 Hall 4- Chandler 4739 (typ. vidi) ; plants about 3 to 6 

 inches high, the leaves (as compared with the typical form) 

 correspondingly smaller; leaves (as well as the pedicels 

 and calyces) more markedly glandular-hirsutulose than in 

 the typical form ; filament-tube short but evident. D. glan- 

 dulosum Eastw., Lflts. W. Bot. 2 :36 (1937), type loc. Deso- 

 lation Valley, region of Lake Tahoe, Eastwood (typ. vidi), 

 is the same as forma pyqmaeum Hall. Var. redolens Hall, 

 Bot. Gaz. 31:392 (1901), type loc. Mt. Goddard, Hall # 

 Chandler 132 (typ. vidi) ; Jepson, Man. 754 (1925). D. 

 jeffreyi var. odoraium Eastw., Lflts. W. Bot. 2:36 (1937), 

 type loc. Peregoy Mdw., Yosemite, Enid Michael (typ. 

 vidi). 



Fig. 319. DODECATHEON JEFFREYI 



Moore, a, habit, X %; fc, fl., X V2 ; 

 c, capsule, X 1%. 



3. D. con jugens Greene. Modoc Shooting Stab. Scape.s 4 to 7 inches high ; 

 leaf-blades elliptic to oblong, 1 to 2i/4 inches long, contracted to a mostly short 

 petiole; flowers 5-merous ; corolla purple, 7 to 9 lines long; filament-tube obsolete 

 or nearly so; anthers distinct, 3 to 3i/^ lines long, the connective rugulose; capsule 

 narrowly oblong or cylindric or tapering upwards, 4^ to 7 lines long, circumscis- 

 sile just below the apex. 



Damp places, 4000 to 5500 feet : Modoc Co. North to Washington, east to Idaho 

 and ilontana. Apr. -June. 



Locs.— Goose Lake Valley, B. M. Austin; West Valley Camp, Warner Mts., E. E. Steffen 5; 

 Lake City mountain, Bruce 2302. 



Refs. — DODECATHEON CONJUGENS Greene, Erythea 3:40 (1895), type loc. Drew's Creek, se. 

 Ore., B. M. Austin; Jepson, Man. 754 (1925). D. glastifolium Greene, Erythea 3:71 (1895), 

 type loc. "lava beds of Modoc Co.," B. M. Austin 174; Jepson, Man. 754 (1925). 



4. D. cusickii Greene. Columbia Shootixg Stab. Scapes slender, 2 to 6 

 inches high; leaf -blades oblong to obovate, I/2 to 1% inches long, attenuate below 

 to a short or long petiole; corolla purplish, small (3I/2 to 4V2 lines long) ; filament- 

 column yellow or commonly yellow, very narrow, as long or nearly as long as the 

 slender anthers; anther-connective purplish, smooth; style usually much exserted. 



