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POLEMONIACEAE 



Fig. 370. POLEMONroM caeneum 

 Gray, a, fl. branch, X % ; 6, long, 

 sect, of fl., X 1; c, stamen, X 1%. 



Eef s. — POLEMONIUM occiDENTALE Greene, Pitt. 2:75 ( 1890 ) , "Roclty Mts. of Colorado and . . . 

 the Calif ornian Sierras"; Jepson, Man. 783 (1925). P. helleri Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4=50:32 

 (1907), type from Truckee, Heller, apparently only a filamentless mutant. P. coeruleum Gray, 



Bot. Cal. 1:500 (1876), and various western authors; 



not L. 



5. P. carneum Gray. (Pig. 370.) Stems 

 erect, asceiidiug or climbing, few to many from 

 a densely branched root-crown, 1 to 4 feet high, 

 usually widely branched above ; herbage subgia- 

 brous or thinly pubescent; leaves 3 to 8 inches 

 long ; leaflets 12 to 19, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 thin, 1/4 to 1^2 inches long; flowers in loose ter- 

 minal corymbose or subumbellate few-flowered 

 clusters; calyx greatly accrescent in fruit, becom- 

 ing chartaceous and 5 to 8 lines long; corolla pink 

 to purple, broadly fumielform, cleft to a little 

 below middle, 7 to 12 lines long, 2 to 3 times as 

 long as the calyx; stamens and style included; 

 ovary-cells 3 or 4-ovuled. 



Moist shaded ground or open grassy hills 

 along the coast, 50 to 2000 feet, uncommon : Coast 

 Ranges from San Mateo Co. and western Ala- 

 meda Co. to Del Norte Co. ; thence east to west- 

 ern Siskiyou Co., 4000 to 6000 feet. North to 

 southern Oregon. Apr.-May. 



Locs. — Pilarcitos reservoir, San Mateo Co., Davy 

 1040; Stonybrook Creek, w. Alameda Co., Mason; Sau- 



salito, Kellogg; Bodega, Sonoma Co., Emo?! 9207; Bear 



River Ridge, Humboldt Co., Tracy 8440 ; Big Lagoon, 



Humboldt Co., Tracy 6682 ; Smith River Indian Reserva- 

 tion, Del Norte Co., Suby Va7i Deventer 317; Gilbert 



Creek, Del Norte Co., Jepson 9358; Marble Mt., w. Siski- 

 you Co., Jepson 2827 ; McAdam Creek, w. Siskiyou Co., 



Butler 1344. Ore.: Ashland (e. of), P. M. Austin. 



Refs. — PoLEMONiUM CARNEUM Gray, Syn. Fl. 2:151 



(1878), tvpe loc. Siskiyou Co., Greene; Jepson, Fl. W. 



Mid. Cal. 423 (1901), ed. 2, 328 (1911), Man. 783 (1925). 



P. carneum subsp. genuinum Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4=^°: 



41 (1907). P. carneum var. luteum Gray, Svn. Fl. ed. 



2, 2:412 (1886), type loc. Cascade Mts., Ore., Howell. 



P. carneum subsp. luteum Brand, I.e. 41. 



6. P. confertum Gray var. eximium 

 (Greene) Jepson. Sky-Pilot. (Fig. 371.) Stems 

 and basal leaves very densely tufted on the 

 branched root-crown ; stems several, bearing 1 

 or a few reduced leaves and a dense capitate clus- 

 ter of blue flowers ; leaves linear in outline, glan- 

 dular-viscid and musk-scented, 1 to 5 inches long; 

 leaflets numerous, i/2 to IY2 lines long, usually 

 approximate or imbricate, palmately divided into 

 2 to 5 segments; corolla salverform, the tube 3 to 

 514 lines long, nearly twice as long as the calyx 

 and much longer than the lobes; stamens in- 

 cluded, rarely somewhat exserted from corolla- 

 tube; cells of ovary with 3 to 5 ovules: style 

 included. 



Rocky ledges, 10,000 to 14,000 feet. : Sierra Nevada from Tuolumne Co. to Tu- 

 lare Co. Julv-Aug. 



Fig. 371. POLEMONIUM CONFERTUM 



Gray var. eximidm Jepson. o, habit, 

 X % ; 6, fl., X 

 fl., X IV2. 



