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Var. brevifolia E. Nels. Plants lower (2 to 4 inelies high), compact; herbage glandular- 

 villous with very short but unequal spreading hairs; leaf -blades shorter, broader, thicker, with 

 more marked cartilaginous margin and longer spinescent tip. — Transmontane in the eastern Mo- 

 have Desert and in Inyo Co., thence north to eastern Sierra Co. and Lassen Co. East to New 

 Mexico and Utah. As fairly typical may be cited: Barnwell, New York Mts., K. Brandegee; 

 Bishop Creek, w. Inyo Co.; Sierra Valley, Lemmon 195; SusanviUe, T. Brandegee; Madeline 

 Plains, Lassen Co., Bruce 2332. 



Var. hlrsuta (E. Nels.) Jepson comb. n. Stems many, rather densely tufted on the branched 

 root-crown, IMs to 2% inches high; herbage with two kinds of spreading hairs, extremely short 

 gland-tipped hairs which pass into less glandular or non-glandular long pilose hairs; leaf -blades 

 narrowly oblong to lanceolate, acute, 3 to 6 lines long; calyx villous, nearly equaling corolla-tube 

 to % as long, its lobes subulate, somewhat spreading, about as long as the tube; corolla-tube 6 

 lines long, its lobes about half as long; style % length of the calyx. — Dry hills, 3500 to 4000 feet, 

 central Siskiyou Co. This plant is but slightly knoivn and satisfactory evaluation waits on fuller 

 collections. In habit and in essential particulars, excepting to some extent in degree, it is similar 

 to var. brevifolia save only in style length. The stems are more densely leafy, the calyx is more 

 villous in var. hirsuta than in var. brevifolia. The herbage in var. brevifolia is usually less villous 

 than in var. hirsuta, but sometimes equally villous. The length of the style, which is about % the 

 length of calyx, appears to be a const.ant character, but the weight given this character must be 

 judged in the light of its near relative, var. brevifolia, in which the style varies from the same 

 length as the calyx to nearly twice as long. Var. hirsuta belongs, too, to the same phytogeographie 

 area in California and western Nevada as var. brevifolia. On these accounts the probable inval- 

 idity of var. hirsuta as a species is emphasized by its highly localized occurrence at Yreka, whence 

 only two or three collections, one being Butler 739. 



Kefs. — Phlox stansburti Hel., Bull. Torr. Club. 24 :47S (1897). P. speciosa var. stansburyi 

 Torr., Bot. Mex. Bound. 145 (1859), type loc. gravelly hills near the Organ Mts., N. Mex., Bigelow. 

 P. longifolw. var. stansburyi Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8:255 (1870). P. stansburyi subsp. eu- 

 stansburyi Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4-''''':66 (1907), type loc. Lassen Co., Baker. P. viscida E. Nels., 

 Eev. West. N. Am. Phloxes 24 (1899), type loc. Blue Mts., Columbia Co., Wash., Piper ; herbage, 

 pedicels and calyx viscid-pubescent (ex char.). — This form occurs in Modoc Co. P. stansburyi 

 subsp. compacta var. viscida Brand, I.e. 67. P. dolichantha Jepson, Man. 785 (1925) ; not Gray. 

 Var. BREVIFOLIA E. Nels., I.e. 27 (1899). P. longifolia var. stansburyi f. brevifolia Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. 8:255 (1870), "Chiefly in the southern districts [presumably Utah and Nevada] and 

 extending into New Mexico and Arizona." P. grayi Wooton & Standley, Coutrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 

 16:161 (1913), based on the preceding. P. longifolia var. stansburyi subvar. brevifolia Wats., 

 Bot. King 261 (1871). Var. hiesota Jepson. P. hirsuta E. Nels., Rev. West. N. Am. Phloxes 28 

 (1899), type loc. Yreka, Greene 719; Jepson, Man. 780 (1925). 



5. P. dolichantha Gray. Stems erect or ascending, 3 to 10 inches high ; herb- 

 age minutely villous (and often glandular) or glabrate, the inflorescence glandular- 

 pubescent ; leaf-blades linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, often falcate, % to ly^ inches 

 long; flowers in a terminal compact several-flowered cjane, the pedicels 1 to 5 lines 

 long; calyx l^ to l^ as long as the corolla, the lobes equaling or shorter than the 

 calyx-tube ; corolla whitish or rose-purple, glabrous, 1 to 1^/4 inches long, 3 to 4 

 times longer than the calyx, its lobes obovate ; stamens unequally inserted, the 2 of 

 higher insertion (or occasionally all) somewhat exserted ; style equaling the corolla- 

 tube or slightly exceeding it. 



Montane slopes, 4000 to 6500 feet : Siskiyou Co. ; Mono and Inyo Cos. East to 

 southern Nevada. June-July. 



Locs. — Caatle Lake road, Siskiyou Co., Cooke 15,049; near Benton, Mono Co., Shockley 124; 

 Westgard Pass, n. end Inyo Mts., Ferris 4' Bacigalupi 8054. 



Var. bernardiiia (M. & J.) Jepson comb. n. Less puberulent; corolla 1 to 2 inches long, the 

 limb 6 to 9 lines broad; calyx 5 to 6 lines long. — San Bernardino Mts. (Bear Valley, Parish 3686). 

 Perhaps the differences are too slight to sustain even varietal rank. 



Eefs. — Phlox dolichantha Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 22:310 (1886), type loc. Pahranagat 

 Mts., se. Nev., Searls. P. superba Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4-^": 67 (1907), type loc. Tonopah, Nev., 

 Eugh Brown; Jepson, Man. 785 (1925). P. longituba Hel., Muhl. 2:228 (1905), type loc. foothills 

 w. of Bishop, Inyo Co., Heller 8320. Var. bernardina Jepson. P. bernardina M. & J., Bull. Torr. 

 Club 49:356 (1922), type loc. Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 1818 (typ. vidi). 



3. LEPTODACTYLON H. & A. 



Undershrubs, commonly tufted and very leafy. Leaves alternate or some ex- 

 ceptionally opposite, much fascicled in the axils, palmately 3 to 9-parted, pungent. 



