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Montane slopes, 4000 to 6000 feet : Modoe Co. North to Washington and Idaho. 

 May-July. 



Locs. — Mt.Biiwell, Manning. Nev. : Paradise Valley, Humboldt Co., KenTied)/ 1046. Ore.: 

 Steins Mts., CusicTc 2007. 



Var. yosemitanum (Mason) Jepson comb. n. Eoot-crown producing rice-grain bulblets; 

 filament-column purple ; otherwise similar to the species. — Wet meadows or flats, 8000 to 10,000 

 feet, Sierra Nevada: Kaiser Peak, Fresno Co., A. L. Grant 1011 ; head of Yosemite Creek. 



Eefs. — DODECATHEON cusiCKil Greene, Pitt. 2:73 (1890), type loc. "dry mountain ridges," 

 e. Ore., Cusich 1527. Meadia cusickii Ktze., Eev. Gen. PI. 2:398 (1891). Var. yosemitantjm 

 Jepson. D. hendersonii var. yosemitanum Mason, Madrono 1:187 (1928), type loc. head of Yo- 

 semite Creek near Porcupine Flat, Mariposa Co., Mason 322. 



5. D. clevelandii Greene. Padres Shooting Star. Scapes 1 to IV2 feet high; 

 root-cro-ivn not producing rice-grain bulblets at flowering time; scapes, pedicels and 

 calyces minutely glandular; leaves II/2 to 2% inches long, the blades obovate, ir- 

 regularly and sometimes saliently erose-dentate or entire, shortly or long-petioled; 

 flowers 5-merous; corolla bright purple to white, 6 to 11 lines long; connective of 

 the anthers transversely much folded, usually yellow; capsule 4 to 5 lines long, 

 twice as long as the calyx, dehiscent in a circle beneath the enlarged base of the 

 style, then valvate-dehiscent below this; seeds reddish brown. 



Dry hills and mesas, 20 to 2300 feet : cismontane Southern California. North 

 to San Luis Obispo Co. Jan.-Apr. 



Locs." — San Diego, R. TV. Sumner; La Mesa, Jepson 6688; La Jolla, Jepson 11,864; Witch 

 Creek, S. D. Alderson; Escondido, C. V. Meyer 24; San Bernardino, Parish 3632; Claremont, 

 Chandler; Santa Monica Mts., Barber; Carrizo plain, se. San Luis Obispo Co., Jepson 12,005; 

 Arroyo Grande, Alice King; San Luis Mt., Summers. 



Refs.- — DODECATHEON CLEVELAKDH Greene, Pitt. 1:213 (1888), type loc. San Diego, Cleve- 

 land; Jepson, Man. 754 (1925). Meadia clevelandii Ktze., Rev. Gen. PI. 2:398 (1891). 



6. D. patulum Greene. Lowland Shooting Star. Scapes only 3 to 5 (or 10) 

 inches high; leaf -blades obovate, obtuse, V2 to li/4 inches long, gradually narrowed 

 to a broad petiole about I/2 fs long; corolla white, pale cream-color or rarely pinkish 

 or purplish; anthers short and broad (1 line long), truncate or obscurely refuse at 

 apex, the connectives wholly (or partially) yellow or white; fllament-tube purple, 

 always broader than long ; capsule short-oblong or subglobose, circumscissile near 

 the summit. 



Slightly alkaline areas, 5 to 1500 feet: Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys 

 and their bordering foothills; valleys of the South Coast Ranges and their border- 

 ing foothills, mostly toward the interior. Mar. Also called Prairie Pointers. 



Locs. — Chico, Purdy; Oroville, Heller 11,178; College City, Colusa Co., Alice King; Sacra- 

 mento, M. S. Baker; Mountain Pass, Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 620; Rocky Peak, Vacaville, 

 Jepson 8217; Main Prairie, Solano Co., Jepson 14,590; Livermore, Greene; Fresno, Maud Min- 

 thorn; Delano (foothUls e.), Kern Co., Hoover 743. As this species ranges southward it is diffi- 

 cult to distinguish from D. clevelandii, which species were, perhaps, better made a variety. 



In the Santa Clara Valley, and on hills bordering it or near it, grows a form of D. patulum 

 (var. BEBNALLANDM Greene) which is somewhat taller (6 to 10 inches high) with the corolla usually 

 purplish or rose-purple, but sometimes white. — Buriburi Ridge, San Mateo Co., Jepson 9556; Los 

 Buellis HUls, E. J. Smith; Arroyo Mocho, Mt. Hamilton Range, Jepson 10,679; GUroy; Pacheco 

 Pass (e. base), Hoover 1664 (an intermediate to D. clevelandii). 



Refs. — DODECATHEON PATULUM Greene, Pitt. 1 :211 (1888), type loc. "low moist places along 

 the lower Sacramento" River (the first cited station and the best representative of the prevailing 

 form) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 377 (1901), ed. 2, 318 (1911), Man. 754 (1925). D. meadia var. 

 ellipticum K. Brandegee, Zoe 1:20 (1890). Meadia patula Ktze., Rev. Gen. PI. 2:398 (1891). 

 Var. BEBNALIANUM Greene, Erythea 3:72 (1895), type loc. Bernal Heights, San Francisco, Greene; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 377 (1901). Z>. hendersonii var. bernalianum Jepson, Man. 755 (1925). 

 D. laetiflorum Greene, Pitt. 5:112 (1903), type loc. Gilroy, C. F. Bal.er 1945. D. patulum var. 

 laetiflorum Jepson, Man. 755 (1925). D. patulum var. gracile Greene, Erythea 3:72 (1895), tjrpe 

 loc. Loma Prieta, Davy (corolla white, the petals twisted) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 377 (1901). 



DODECATHEON ELLIPTICUM Nutt. ; Dur., Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Plula. ser. 2, 3:94 (1855), is 

 as to the diagnosis a mixture of two or more species. Durand mentions first the plant of Pratten 

 (Nevada City), nest that of Heermann (Calaveras) and lastly that of Nuttall (plains of the Co- 



