122 CONVOLVULACEAE 



Acad. 11:90 (1876), based on "C. n. sp.? Torr.," Pac. "R. Eep. 4:127 (1857), type loc. Downieville, 

 Yuba River, Bigelow ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 3S7 (1901), ed. 2, 320 (1911), Man. 777, fig. 763 

 (1925). C. coiUnus Greene, Pitt. 3:326 (1898), type loc. "dry foothills of tlie Coast Range." 

 C. tridactylosus Eastw., Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 4, 20:1.51 (1931), type loc. mts. near Covelo, Men- 

 docino Co., Eastwood 15,202. C. tomentellus Greene, Pitt. 3 :327 (1898) , type loc. "mts. of S. Cal." 

 Var. PEDICELLATA Jepson. C. villosus var. pedicellata Jepson, Man. 777 (1925), type loc. Santa 

 Paula, Ventura Co., Cobi 138. 



8. C. chartaceus Jepsou. Sierra Morning-glory. Stems coarse, ascending or 

 trailing, rather wiry, 1 to 2 feet long; herbage velvety hairy-pubescent, the hairs 

 on the stems and petioles spreading; leaf-blades large, thinnish, orbicular-deltoid 

 to broadly reniform, obtuse or slightly mucronate at the broad apex. 1 to 2 inches 

 long and as broad or half again as broad, little or not at all lobed at the squarish 

 base; lower petioles elongated, often twice as long as the blades, upper ones usually 

 shorter than the blades; axils of the middle and lower leaves bearing a flexuous or 

 recurved one-flowered peduncle; involucral bracts large, accrescent, papery and 

 conspicuous, tawny or straw-color in age, entirely enclosing the calyx, triangular- 

 ovate to almost orbicular, 6 to 10 lines long and 4 to 6 lines wide; sepals narrowly 

 ovate-acuminate, 3 to 6 lines long; corolla creamy-white to pale yellow, 1 to 1^4 

 inches long, broadly funnelform. 



Mountain valleys and flats, 4500 to 6000 feet: from Nevada Co. to Tulare Co. 

 June-July. 



Locs. — Bear Valley, Nevada Co., Jepson 14,504; Huntington Lake, A. L. Grant 1150; Old 

 Colony MUl, E. Brandegee ; Alta JIdws., K. Brandegee. 



Refs. — Convolvulus chartaceus Jepson, Man. 777 (1925), type loc. betw. Toll House and 

 Hazel Green, Mariposa Co., Jepson. 14,503. C. malacopliyllus Greene, Pitt. 3:326 (1898), type 

 loc. "woods of middle Sierra Nevada," in part. 



9. C. fulcratus Greene. Sonora IMoening-glory. Stems slender. 10 to 18 

 inches high, not twining except feebly at the sterile leafy summit above the flowers; 

 herbage minutely puberulent to almost villous throughout; leaf-blades ^o to 1 inch 

 long, triangular-sagittate, the moderately divergent lobes often more than half as 

 large as the main blade, the slender petioles Vi to % ^nch. long; axils of the middle 

 leaves each bearing an elongated filiform 1-flowered peduncle l^/o to 2^4 inches 

 long, this with a single pair of sagittate or oblong bracts (like the ordinar.v leaves 

 but smaller) about 1^4 to I/2 inch below the calyx; sepals unequal, the inner broader 

 than tlie outer, truncate, obtuse or mucronate, pubescent; corolla 1 to Ito inches 

 long, white or cream-color. 



Dry grassy .slopes. 1400 to 7800 feet : Sierra Nevada foothills f i-om Shasta Co. 

 to Madera Co.; mountains of Southern California. June-JulJ^ 



Locs. — Pall River Valley, BaJccr 4' Nvtting ; Angels Camp, Calaveras Co., Jepson 10,430; 

 Mariposa, Congdon ; Fresno Flats, Madera Co., Jepson 12,839 ; Rock Creek, San Gabriel Mts., 

 Peirson 497 ; Sugarloaf, San Bernardino Mts., Peirson 8988; Mesa Grande, San Diego Co., E. Fer- 

 guson 84. 



Var. deltoideus Jepson. Leaves short and sharply deltoid, distinctly broader than long, 

 densely soft-pubescent throughout. — Tehachapi Mts. and Mt. Pinos region : Caliente, comm. E. .V. 

 Day : Keene. Jepson 7155 ; Tehachapi Peak, Dudley 346 ; Griffin, Elmer 3804 ; Cuddy Ranch, Hall 

 6618 (a variable collection). Also in Tuolumne Co.: Harden Ranch, Je2^soti 10,561. 



Var. berryi Jepson. Plants coarser throughout ; leaves large, the blades triangular-sagittate, 

 1 to 2 inches long, much broader than in the species, as broad as long, densely villous, the basal 

 lobes squarish or often scarcely at all developed. — Sierra Nevada between Kings River and East 

 Fork Kaweah River: Old Colony Mill, K. Brandegee; Giant Forest, K. Brandegee ; Alta Mdws., 

 K. Brandegee. The following have smaller leaves, relatively less broad but as densely villous: 

 Old Colony Mill, K. Brandegee ; upper Marble Fork, Giant Forest, K. Brandegee ; Marble Pork 

 trail to Round Mdw., Jepson 695. 



Refs. — CoNTOL\'ULUS FULCR.4.TUS Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 1:208 (1885) ; Jepson, Man. 778 

 (1925). C. luteohis var. fulcratus Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 11 :00 (1870). type Inc. Sierra Nevada 

 foothills (Sonora, Bigeloiv). C. gracilentus Greene, Pitt. 3:329 (1898), type loc. Mormon Bar, 

 Mariposa Co., Congdon. Var. deltoideus Jepson, Man. 778 (1925). C. deltoideus Greene, Pitt. 

 3:331 (1S9S), type loc. Tehachapi, Kern Co., Greene. Var. berryi Jepson, Man. 778 (1925). 

 C. berryi Eastw., Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 3, 2:287 (1902), type loc. Millwood, Fresno Co., Eastwood. 



