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POLEMONIACEAE 



of a running rootstock; herbage viscid-pubescent or -pilose and mephitic; leaves 

 1 to 6 inches long; leaflets 11 to 21 (the cauline with fewer leaflets), oblong or ellip- 

 tic, 4 to 8 lines long; flowers in close racemose 

 cymes; calyx little accrescent; corolla pale 

 blue or purple with a yellow or white throat, 

 cleft to below the middle, 2V2 to 5 lines long, 

 ly^ to 2 times as long as the calyx; stamens 

 included; style slightly exserted; cells of the 

 capsule 1 to 3-seeded. 



Deep rich soil of moist shaded places in 

 the mountains, in meadows, stream flats and 

 pine woods, 6000 to 9800 (or 11,000) feet; 

 Sierra Nevada from Fresno Co. to Sierra Co.; 

 western Siskiyou Co. East to the Rocky Mts., 

 north to Washington. June-July. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada: Nellie Lake, Fresno Co., 

 A. L. Grant 1020 ; Kaiser Crest, Fresno Co., Jepson 

 13,011; Yosemite Creek trail, Yosemite, A. L. Grant 

 1282; Kanclieria Mt., s. Tuolumne Co., Jepson 3403; 

 Mt. Conness, Tuolumne Co., Jepson 4481 ; Summit 

 sta., Nevada Co., Jepson 14,997; Webber Lake, Sierra 

 Co., Leminon. Western Siskiyou Co.: Marble Mt., 

 Butler 26. 



Refs. — POLEMONTUM PIILCHERRIMUM Hook., Bot. 



Mag. t. 2979 (1830), type from the n. Eocky Mts., 

 Drummnnd : Jepson, Man. 782 (1925). P. hiimile B. 

 & W., Bot. Cal. 1:499 (1876); not Willd. (1819). 

 P.humile YST. pidcheUumGTaj, Syn.Fl. 2:150 (1878), 

 based, as to the description, upon plants from the 

 Northwest Coast south to Colorado and the Sierra Ne- 

 vada. P. /rioo^or Eastw., Bot. Gaz. 37:439 (1904), type 

 loc. Marble 

 Mt., Siskiyou 



Co., Chandler 1671. P. ptilcherrimum subsp. tricolor 



Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4=='':35 (1907). P. califoriiicum 



Eastw., Bot. Gaz. 37 :437 (1904), type loc. Snow Flat, ne. 



Mariposa Co., Eastwood. P. cahjcinum Eastw., I.e. 438 



(1904), type loc. near Cinder Cone, Lassen Co., e. of Las- 

 sen Peak, Bruce 1212. P. pulcherrimum var. calycinum 



Brand, I.e. 



3. P. parvifolium Nutt. (Fig. 368.) Stems 

 few to many, a little scape-like, erect or ascend- 

 ing from a branched root-crown, 2i/^ to 7 inches 

 high; herbage glabrous to minutely glandular- 

 puberulent; leaves 1 to 2 (or 4I/2) inches long; 

 leaflets 11 to 21, mostly crowded (the cauline 

 leaves with fewer leaflets), ovate or oblong-ovate 

 to sub-orbicular, thick and firm in texture, 1 to 

 2^/2 (or 3) lines long; flowers few to several in 

 a slightly loose terminal cymose cluster; corolla 

 blue, 314 to 4 lines long, its tube rather shorter 

 than the calyx. 



High montane rocky slopes, 7800 to 10,800 

 feet: Sierra Nevada from Mono and Tuolumne 

 Cos. to eastern Siskiyou Co. ; northern Trinity 

 Co. Northeast to Wyoming and Montana. June- 



Geog. note. — Polemonium parvifolium, a plant of the northern continental divide in the United 

 States, ranges from Montana southwest across the Great Basin into the northern Sierra Nevada 



Fig. 366. Polemonium micranthum 

 Benth. a, habit, X V" ; 6, fl., X 3 ; o, 

 corolla laid open, X 3 ; (J, fruiting calyx, 

 X 1. 



Fig. 367. Polemonium pulcher- 

 rimum Hook, a, habit, X % ; 6, fl., 

 X 2 ; c, corolla laid open, X 2 ; (i, 

 fruiting calyx, X 2. 



