216 POLEMONIACEAE 



S. Cal.: Big Pine Mt., San Rafael Mts., Hoffmann; North Pork San Antonio Canon, San Gabriel 

 Mts., Peirson 455; San Bernardino Mts., Parish; Strawberry Valley, San Jacinto Mts. (Univ. 

 Cal. Publ. Bot. 1:103) ; San Diego Co. (Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:62). 



Var. neglectus (Greene) Jepson. Stem simple, very slender, 1 to 2 inches high; corolla-lobes 

 pink, the throat yellow, the yellow extending into the base of the lobes and bearing a crimson 

 spot. — Montane slopes. Sierra Nevada, 6S00 to 9000 feet, from Alpine Co. to Mariposa Co. : Carson 

 Pass, Yates 3945 ; McClure Fork Merced River, Jepson 4429c. 



Eefs.— LiNANTHUS CILIATUS Greene, Pitt. 2:260 (1892) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 432 (1901) 

 ed. 2, 336 (1911), Man. 805 (1925). Gilia ciliata Benth., PI. Hartw. 325 (1849), type loc. Sacra- 

 mento Valley, Hartweg 268. Var. neglectus Jepson, Man. 806 (1925). L. neglectus Greene, 

 Erythea, 3:24 (1895), type from the Sierra Nevada. 



26. L. montanus Greene. Mustang Clover. Stem commonly simple, erect, 

 4 to 22 inches liigli, coarsely pubescent near the base, puberulent above ; iuternodes 

 usually long; leaf -blades palmately 5 to 7-parted into oblanceolate or linear lobes, 

 3 to 15 lines long, hi.spid or hispidulose; flowers capitately congested; bracts densely 

 and coarsely bristly-ciliate; calyx membranous to base below sinuses, about ^ as 

 long as corolla-tube ; calyx-lobes subulate, about as long as calj'x-tube ; corolla long- 

 salvei-form, white or pink-red with a purple spot toward the base of the lobes, 1 to 

 11/2 inches long, the tube 10 to 14 lines long, pubescent, the throat yellow, short, 

 the lobes 2^/4 to 3% lines long; stamens inserted about the middle of corolla- throat 

 (often one shorter and inserted lower than the rest), the anthers crowded at mouth 

 of throat or exserted at most to about 14 length of corolla-lobes; capsule-cells 1 

 or 2-seeded. 



Openly wooded slopes or open gravelly flats, 1100 to 5000 feet: Sierra Nevada 

 from Nevada Co. to Kern Co.; San Bernardino Mts. Apr.-May. 



Field note. — Linanthus montanus forms marked colonies in the open foothill woodlands of 

 Quercus wislizenii and Pinus sabiniana, or at higher altitudes in woodlands of Pinus ponderosa, 

 Pinus lambertiana and Abies concolor — colonies so strikingly beautiful for delicacy and coloration 

 that this species may be regarded as the handsomest of the Linanthi. While there is some varia- 

 tion in color, the color areas and markings are very constant. Technically, the species is somewhat 

 indefinitely differentiated from Linanthus androsaceus and has been reduced to a subspecies of 

 the latter by Brand. However, the calyx is membranous to the base below the sinuses in Linanthus 

 montanus, while it is usually not membranous in Linanthus androsaceus. It is of some significance, 

 also, to note that Linanthus montanus occupies a unified geographic area from which Linanthus 

 androsaceus is quiie absent. 



Locs. — Nevada Co., ace. to Greene ; Bisbee Peak, Amador Co., Nordstrom 743 ; Gwin Mine, 

 Calaveras Co., Jepson 1806 ; Pine Log sta.. South Fork Stanislaus River, Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 

 706; Lookout Mt., Mariposa Co., Schlobohm 132; Big Creek, Fresno Co., /. T. Wallcer; Rogers 

 Valley (n. of Auberry), Fresno Co., Jepson 12,899; betw. Squaw Valley and Dunlap, s. Fresno 

 Co., jepson 2752; betw. Oak Flat and Badger, Tulare Co., E. F. Eelley; betw. Colony Mill and 

 Marble Fork, Tulare Co., Jepson 665; Democrat Sprs., lower Kern River, Greenhorn Mts., Jepson 

 19,894. San Bernardino Mts.: Bear Valley, ace. P. A. Mtinz. 



Refs. — Linanthus montanus Greene, Erythea 3:120 (1895), "Sierra Nevada from Nevada 

 Co. southward to the San Bernardino Mts."; Jepson, Man. 806 (1925). L. ciliatus var. montamis 

 Greene, Pitt. 2:260 (1892), type from the "Sierra Nevada at higher than middle elevations." 

 Gilia androsacea subsp. montana Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4='''': 141 (1907). G. ciliata var. montana 

 Munz, Man. 398 (1935). 



27. L. breviculus Greene. Stem simple or much branched from the base, pu- 

 berulent or glabrate, 4 to 12 inches high ; leaf-blades palmately divided into 3 to 5 

 linear lobes, finely pilose, 1 to 5 lines long ; leaf -whorls on lower part of stems usu- 

 ally crowded (often concealing the stem), 1 to 2 lines long, the lobes blunt; flowers 

 capitately congested in small clusters at the summit of the stem or ends of the 

 branches and usually also in sessile or subsessile clusters in the uppermost forks, 

 or a small cluster or a single flower proliferous from a terminal cluster; bracts few; 

 calyx hirsutulose, its lobes lanceolate, i a to ^/o as long as the tube, its intervals mem- 

 branous and of equal width to the base below the sinuses ; corolla salverform, white 

 to purple or lavender-crimson, 71/2 to 15 lines long, the limb 5 to 7% lines broad, 

 the tube 2 to 3 times as long as the calj-x ; tube and lower portion of the throat dark 

 blue or purple; stamens inserted near the middle to the base of the corolla-throat; 

 style exceeding the anthers; capsule-cells several (6 to 12) -seeded. 



