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POLEMONIACEAE 



chartaceous and only the slender or acuminate part of the calyx-lobes green- 

 herbaceous ; calyx-lobes about as long as the tube; corolla red-purple or pink, 

 slender-fuimelform, 4 to 5 or 9 lines long, IVo to 2 times as long as the calyx ; stamens 

 short, very unequally inserted in corolla-throat about the middle, included ; style 

 included ; cells of the capsule 1-seeded. 



Dry flats and slopes in the mountains, 4500 to 8500 (less commonly 2900 to 

 11,000) feet: San Bernardino Mts.; Sierra Nevada, west slope, from Tulare Co. 

 to Butte Co.; east side of the Sierra Nevada from Inyo Co. to east borders of Modoc 



Co. East to Colorado, Nebraska and Minne- 

 sota, north to Manitoba and Alaska. May- Aug. 

 Geog. note. — Although Collomia linearis inhabits 

 stations on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada, the 

 general weight of its distribution in California is 

 transmontane and leans eastward and northeastward 

 towards the ranges bordering the Great Basin. The 

 one station in the San Bernardino Mountains is to a 

 considerable degree transmontane, ecologically con- 

 sidered, while in the Sierra Nevada the known stations 

 are chiefly on the easterly summits and plateaus and 

 on the easterly slopes. It does not occur in the North 

 Coast Ranges (the citation of Humboldt Co. in Man. 

 PI. Plants Cal., 784, being an error), nor is it known 

 from Siskiyou Co. 



Locs. — San Bernardino Mts.: Bear Valley (PI. 

 World, 20:249). West slope of the Sierra Nevada: 

 Telephone Ridge, s. Tulare Co., C. N. Smith 24; Vol- 

 cano Creek, Tulare Co., Jepson 4037 ; Quail Mdw., 

 Mono Creek, Fresno Co., Jepson 13,210 ; Mariposa 

 Grove, Bolander 5000 ; Cow Creek, Tuolumne Co., 

 A. L. Grant 76; Bear Valley, Amador Co., Hansen; 

 Summit sta., Nevada Co., Jepson 21,102 ; Blairsden, 

 Plumas Co., Ewan 8242 ; JonesvUle, Butte Co., E. B. 

 Copeland 678. East side of the Sierra Nevada : Bishop 

 Creek, Inyo Co., Almeda Nordyke ; White Mts., Mono 

 Co., Shockley 475 ; Leevining Creek, w. Mono Co., Ott- 

 ley 1096; Ponner Lake, Sonne; Sierra Valley, Lem- 

 mon; Mill Creek, Warner Mts., L. S. Smith 1000; 

 Suprise Valley, e. Modoc Co., Jepson 7842. 



Refs. — Collomia linearis Nutt., Gen. 1:126 

 (1818), type from "near the banks of the Missouri 

 [River], about the confluence of Shian River, and in 

 the vicinity of the Arikaree village," Nuttall; Lindl., Bot. Reg. t. 1166 (1828) ; Jepson, Man. 784 

 (1925). Gilia linearis Gray, Proe. Am. Acad. 17:223 (1882). C. linearis var. humilis Brand; 

 Bugler, Pflzr. 4=^0 :49 (1907), type loc. "Soda Sprs." (that is, Soda Sprs. sta., Nevada Co.), 

 Jones 2570. 



4. C. grandifloraDougl. (Fig. 378.) Stem erect, simple (or rarely branched), 

 % to 3 feet high; herbage glabrous to minutely puberulent, the calyces and often 

 the bracts viscid-pubescent ; leaf-blades oblong-lanceolate to linear, entire, sessile, 

 1 to 3 inches long; flowers crowded in terminal head-like clusters, the clusters leafy- 

 bracted, or some flowers often borne below, either singly in the axils or in small 

 clusters on short branehlets ; calyx-tube obconical, thick chartaceous (without scari- 

 ous intervals), only the broad bluntly acute lobes green; calyx-lobes in an thesis 

 about half as long as tube; corolla pale apricot-color or salmou-eolor, narrowly 

 funnelform, 10 to 12 lines long, its tube thrice as long as the calyx, its lobes broadly 

 oblong ; stamens unequally inserted on lower part of corolla-throat, the longer ones 

 slightly exserted from throat; anthers blue; cells of the capsule 1-seeded. 



Dry open slopes or dry open pine woods, (100 or) 1000 to 8000 feet, at its higher 

 altitudes occurring nearly throughout the state : mountains of Southern California ; 

 Mt. Hamilton Eange; Santa Cruz Mts.; North Coast Eanges from northern Lake 

 Co. to western Siskiyou Co.; Tehaehapi Mts.; Sierra Nevada from Tulare Co. to 

 eastern Siskiyou Co. and Modoc Co. East to Utah and Wyoming, north to Idaho 

 and British Columbia. May-Aug. 



Pig. 378. Collomia qeandiflora 

 Dougl. a, top of fl. stem, X Ms : i, &-, X 

 1 ; c, fruiting calyx, X 2 ; d, capsule, X 2. 



