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GENTIANACEAE 



Fig. 343. SWERTIA PUBEKtrLENTA 



conduplieate, IV2 to 2 inches long; stem-leaves opposite; panicle 6 inches long; co- 

 rolla 4 to 4% lines long, its lobes obovate, shortly acuminate, above the gland 

 splotched ^A-ith dark purple dots on a gi-eenish- 

 white ground; gland oblong, its opening at apex 

 fringed, its base notched. 



Open pine slopes, 9000 to 11,000 feet : Inyo 

 and Mono Cos. July. 



Field note. — Swertia puberulenta is, says F.W. Peir- 

 son, a plant of fairly frequent occurrence along the east 

 slope of the southern Sierra Nevada in Inyo and Mono 

 Cos. and has been collected at the following localities: 

 Taboose Pass; Big Pine Creek; Baker Creek, Duran 

 1802 ; North Fork Bishop Creek ; Green Lake ; betw. 

 Deadman Creek and June Lake. It has also been found 

 in the White Mts. (Wyman Creek, Duran 1736). 



Refs. — Swertia puberulenta Jepson. Frasera pu- 

 hernlenta J)av., Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 11:77, pi. 1 (1912), 

 type loc. South Lake, Bishop Creek, Davidson 2705. 



5. S. parryi Ktze. Coahuilla Deer-ear. 

 (Fig. 344.) Plants 2i/i to 4i/4 feet high; stem 

 usualh' single, stout, arising from the crown of 

 a taproot; herbage glabrous; leaves white-mar- 

 gined, the blades of the basal oblanceolate and 

 drawn down to a narrow base, 4 to 8 inches long, 

 the stem leaves opposite, lanceolate, sessile by a 

 broad base, 2 to 6 inches long; panicle broad, 6 

 to 12 inches long, its flowers on pedicels i/o to 1 

 inch long; corolla greenish-white, black-dotted -^fP^^t a, habit, x % ; 6, long. sect. 



I, 4. 1 1 ^ X o 1- 1 -4^ 1 I, 4. otfl., X2; c, corolla-lobe, X 3. 



about gland, 6 to 8 lines long, its lobes ovate; > > > > 



glands yoke- 



or horseshoe-shaped, fringed all around; cap- 

 sule terete-lanceolate, 7 to 8 lines long. 



Open ground, 1400 to 5000 feet : coastal 

 Southern California from the San Gabriel and 

 San Bernardino mountains to the Cuyamaca 

 Mts. East to Arizona, south to Lower Califor- 

 nia. Apr.-July. 



Loes. — Betw. Live Oak and San Dimas canons, San 

 Gabriel Mts. (Bull. Torr. Club 49:37) ; Cajon Canon, 

 Jepson 6101 ; San Bernardino, Jepson 14,646 ; Saunders 

 Mdw., San Jacinto Mts., C. V. Meyer 581 ; Hemet Val- 

 ley, Clary 1210; betw. Coahuilla Valley and Aguanga, 

 Jepson 1476; Witch Creek, Alderson; Cuyamaca Mts., 

 Clara A. Hunt ; Descanso, M. F. Spencer. 



Refs. — Swertia parryi Ktze., Rev. Gen. PI. 2:430 

 (1891); Jepson, Man. 767 (1925). Frasera parryi 

 Torr., Pac. R. Rep. 4:126 (1857), type loc. mts. of 

 San Diego Co., Parry; Bot. Mex. Bound. 156 (1859). 



6. S. albomarginata Ktze. Desert Fra- 

 sera. (Fig. 345.) Plants 8 to 15 inches high; 

 Fig. 344. Swertia parryi Ktze. Stems single or several from the taproot; herb- 

 a-b, habit, X %; c, fl. with one side of age glabrous or minutely pubescent; leaf- 

 calys and corolla removed, X iVj; d, blades spatulate Or oblanceolate, disposed to be 

 capsule, X ly, ; e, seed, X 4%. eonduplicate, IVa to 3 inches long, ornamented 



M'ith a bright-silvery margin; stem-leaves in 

 whorls of 3 or 4; panicle rather broad, with the lower branches elongated and thus 

 corymbose; corolla greenish-white. 4 to 5 lines long, its lobes dark-dotted; gland 



