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POLEMONIACEAE 



1. P. adsurgfens Torr. Stems diffuse or ascending, simple or sparingly 

 branched, 4 to 10 inches long, arising from slender creeping root-stocks; herbage 

 glabrous, the pedicels glandular-puberulent; leaf -blades elliptic to ovate, 6 to 14 

 lines long; flowers in terminal few-flowered cymes; pedicels mostly longer than 

 calyx ; calyx glandular-pubescent, its lobes subulate, spreading or recurved, longer 

 than the tube ; corolla pink or pinkish-white, % to 1 inch long, its lobes entire, about 

 half as long as the tube ; stamens very unequal, the 2 of higher insertion often ex- 



serted; style equaling or longer than the co- 

 rolla-tube ; ovary-cells 1-ovuled. 



Coniferous woods, 1400 to 6000 feet : Men- 

 docino Co. to western Siskiyou Co. North to 

 Oregon. May-July. 



Locs. — Mendocino Co., IT. IF. Price; near Three 

 Creeks, n. Humboldt Co., Davy 5708 ; betw. Mud Spr. 

 and Trinity Summit, Jepson 202S ; Somes Bar, Klam- 

 ath River, Chandler 1534; betw. Cottage Grove and 

 Elbow Camp, Siskij-ou Mts., Jepson 2861. 



Refs. — Phlox adsurgens Torr.; Gray, Proe. Am. 

 Acad. 8:256 (1870), type loe. "Cafion Pass, Ore.," 

 A. Wood; Wats., Garden and Forest, 1:66, fig. 11 

 (18S8); Jepson, Man. 786 (1925). 



2. P. speciosa Pursh. (Fig. 372.) Stems 

 several, erect or ascending from a branched 

 woody root-crown, 4 to 20 inches high; herb- 

 age puberulent or the leaves sometimes gla- 

 brous; leaf-blades linear or lanceolate to 

 narrowly ovate, V2 to 1% inches long; flowers 

 in a terminal few to several-flowered cyme; 

 cah'x puberulent, Y2 to % as long as corolla- 

 tube, its lobes short-subulate, i/o to as long as 

 the calyx-tube ; corolla reddish-purple or rose- 

 pink to lavender, its tube 6 to 7 lines long, the 

 lobes obcordate (rarely entire), 4V2 to 5I/2 

 lines long ; stamens unequal, included ; anthers 

 and pollen yellow ; style shorter than calyx. 

 Open rocky hillsides or openly forested slopes, 1500 to 5000 feet : North Coast 

 Ranges from Sonoma Co. to western Siskiyou Co. and Del Norte Co.; Sierra Nevada 

 from Fresno Co. to Shasta and Modoc Cos. East to Arizona, north to "Washington 

 and Idaho. Apr.-July. 



Loes. — North Coast Ranges: Healdsburg (5 mi. w., on Jensen ranch), 31. S. BaVer 2718c; 

 South Yollo Bolly, Jepson 14,987; Edgewood, Siskiyou Co., Eisling ; Yreka, Butler 650; Low 

 Divide, Del Norte Co., R. Van Deventer 65 ; Gasquet, Del Norte Co., Tracj/ 11,299. Sierra Nevada : 

 Millwood, s. Fresno Co., Jepson 2779a; Groveland, s. Tuolumne Co., L. S. Smith; Yankee Hill, 

 Columbia, n. Tuolumne Co., Jepson 6405 ; Rough-and-Ready, w. Nevada Co., Jepson 14,088 ; Rebel 

 Ridge, near Camptonville, Yuba Co., L. S. Smith 1756; Red Hill, Plumas Co., W. I. FoUctt 14; 

 near R-edding, C. F. Snse 25 ; Dixey Mts., Lassen Co., BaTcer 4- Nutting; Hayden Hill, Modoc Co., 

 L. S. Smith 922. 



Refs. — Phlox speciosa Pursh, Fl. 149 (1814), type loc. "plains of Columbia" River, Lewis; 

 Jepson, Man. 786 (1925). P. speciosa yar. latifolia Hook., Jour. Bot. 3:289 (1851), type loc. 

 "mountain meadows, plateaux of the Coeur d'Alene and Nez Perces," Ida., Geyer. P. speciosa 

 subsp. euspeciosa var. latifolia Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4-'''':74 (1907). P. divaricata var. occi- 

 dentalis Dur., Jour. Acad. Phila. n. s. 3:97 (1855), type loc. "vicinity of Nevada" City, Nevada 

 Co., Pratten. P. occidentalis Dur.; Torr., Pac. R. Rep. 4:125 (1856), type loc. "hillsides near 

 Duffield's Ranch" (that is, 3% mi. e. of Confidence, Tuolumne Co.), Bigelow. P. speciosa subsp. 

 euspcciosa var. latifolia f. occidentalis Brand, I.e. (1907). P. lanceolata E. Nels., Ann. Rep. Wyo. 

 Agr. Coll. 9:29 (1899), type loc. Ellcnsburg, Wash., Piper. P. speciosa subsp. euspcciosa var. 

 latifolia f. lanceolata Brand, I.e. (1907). P. speciosa var. nitida Suksd., Deutsche Bot. Monatsschr. 

 18:132 (1900), type loc. w. Klickitat Co., Sulcsdorf. P. speciosa subsp. euspcciosa var. latifolia 

 subvar. nitida Brand, I.e. (1907). P. longifolia Mlkn., Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:65 (1904); not 

 Nutt. P. longifolia var. puberula Mlkn., I.e. 66 ; not E. Nelson. 



Fig. 372. Phlox speciosa Pursh. a. 

 habit, X % ; 6, long. sect, of fl., X 1 ; 

 c, cross-sect, of ovary, X 3 ; d, caly3 and 

 capsule, X 1; e, capsule, X 1. 



