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obovate, acuminate, entire or laciniate. — Dry or gravelly soil, on grassy ridges, valley flats or often 

 on brushy slopes, 800 to 5500 feet: North Coast Ranges from Lake Co. to Siskiyou Co.; Sierra 

 Nevada from Nevada Co. to Modoc Co. North to Oregon. 



Locs. — North Coast Ranges: Mt. Hanna, Lake Co., Jepson 14,644; Cobb Mt., Tracy 2244; 

 Crane Creek, w. Tehama Co., Jepson 14,645 ; Hay Pork Valley, Trinity Co., Tracy 6466 ; Hupa, 



Chandler 1383; betw. Twin Valley and Poker Flat, w. Sis- 

 kiyou Mts., S. Van Deventer 272; Redding, Hoover 1190; 

 Castle Lake near Sisson, Congdon; Yreka, Butler 416. 

 Northern Sierra Nevada: Bear River, Nevada Co., Hall 

 10,157 ; Brush Creek, Butte Co., W. I. Follett 65 ; Butter- 

 fly Valley, Plumas Co., B. M. Austin; Eagle Lake, Lassen 

 Co., J. Grinnell; Whitmore, Shasta Co., Alma Weigart; 

 upper Fall River Valley (lava fields e.), ne. Shasta Co., 

 Jepson 5772 ; Forestdale, sw. Modoc Co., M. S. Baker. 



Ref 3. — SwERTiA ALBiCADLis Dougl. ; Griseb. in Hook., 

 Fl. Bor. Am. 2:67, t. 154 (1838), type loc. betw. Spokane 

 and Kettle Falls,Wash.,Do!(Y7tos;Jep30n,Man. 766 (1925). 

 Frasera albicaulis Griseb., Gen. et Sp. Gent. 330 (1839). 

 F. nitida var. albicaulis Card, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 18:269 

 (1931). "Leucocraspedum albicaule Dougl.," a name cited 

 by Jepson ace. to Card, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 18:269, but 

 never used by Jepson at any time. Var. nitida Jepson. 

 Frasera nitida Benth., PI. Hartw. 322 (1848), type loc. n. 

 Sierra Nevada (almost certainly in Nevada Co.), Hartweg 

 382; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 320 (1911). Swertia 

 nitida Jepson, Man. 766 (1925). 



3. S. neglecta (Hall) Jepson. PineFeasera. 

 (Fig. 342.) Stems several from the root-crown, 

 1 to 1% feet high; herbage glabrous; leaves nar- 

 rowly linear to narrowly oblanceolate, acute, 3 to 

 5 or 8 inches 



Fig. 341. SWEETIA albicatjlis 

 Dougl. var. nitida Jepson. a-h, 

 habit, X % ; c, corolla-lobe, X 3 ; 

 d-e, scales, X 2yo. 



long; stem- 

 leaves oppo- 

 site; flowers in 

 dense whorl- 

 like cymes 

 forming an interrupted spike-like panicle, the 

 cymes sessile or the lower peduncled; corolla 

 greenish-white with purple veins, its lobes ob- 

 ovate, abruptly acute, 4 to 5 lines long; gland 

 quadrate, partly covered at base and on the sides 

 by a border with the border fringed all around, 

 produced downward as a sac within the tissue of 

 the petal. 



Open pine flats or hillsides, 5900 to 7600 feet : 

 desert slopes of the San Emigdio, San Gabriel 

 and San Bernardino mountains. June-July. 



Locs.— Mt. Pinos, Hall 6462 ; Alamo Mt., Dudley # 

 Lamb 4646 ; Rock Creek, n. side San Gabriel Mts., Peir- 

 son 145 (leaves white-margined) ; Mt. Gleason, Elmer 

 3609; Swartout Canon, San Gabriel Mts., Hall 1249; up- 

 per Holeomb Valley, San Bernardino Mts., Parish. 



Refs. — Swertia neglecta Jepson, Man. 766 (1925). 

 Frasera neglecta Hall, Bot. Gaz. 31: 388, pi. 10 (1901), 

 type loc. Swartout Cafion, Mt. San Antonio, Hall 1495. 



Fig. 342. Sweetia neglecta Jep- 

 son. Or-b, habit, X % ; c, long. sect, 

 of fl., X 2; d, corolla-lobe, X 3. 



4. S. puberulenta (Dav.) Jepson comb. n. 

 Inyo Frasera. (Fig. 343.) Plants 10 to 11 



inches high; stem stoutish, single from the root-crown; herbage puberulent; leaf- 

 blades narrowly oblong, sessile by a broad base, white-margined, tending to be 



