218 POLEMONIACEAE 



Refs. — LINANTHUS OBLANCEOLATXTS Eastw. ; Brand in Engler, Pflzr. 4-''": 136 (1907) ; Jepson, 

 Man. 806 (1925). Gilia oblaticeolata Brand, I.e., type loc. upper Keru River, Hall 4' Babcock 

 5554. G. oblanccohita var. culbertsonii Brand, I.e. 137, t.vpc loc. Hockett Mdws., Tulare Co., 

 Culbertson 4221 (isotyp. ridi). G. tidarensis Brand, I.e., 136, type loc. Smith Mdw., Fish Creek, 

 Tulare Co., Hall <J- Babcocl- 5211 (typ. non in lib. Univ. Cal.). 



10. SIPHONELLA Nutt. 



Perennial herbs, the many stems from a woodj' root-erowu. Leaves pahnately 

 divided into narrow divisions. Flowers in loose or eapitate cymes. Calyx-lobes 

 lanceolate, as long to -/■; as long as tube. Corolla white, rarely rose, salverform. 

 Stamens equal, shortly esserted from the throat or sometimes included, the fila- 

 ments equally inserted in lower part of throat. Ovary 7 to 10-ovuled. — Species 2, 

 western North America. (Diminutive of Greek siphon, a small pipe, referring to 

 the corolla-tube.) 



Flowers clustered in head-like cymes, mostly sessile; ealy.K-tube narrowly searious beneath the 

 sinuses V2 to -:i the way to base; leaf-lobes linear, the leaves usually with leaf-fascieles in 

 their a3dls; herbage pubescent; North Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada and San Bernardino Mts. 



1. S. nuttallii. 



Flowers in loose cymes, mostly pediceled ; calyx-tube not searious beneath the sinuses or only ob- 

 scurely so; leaf-lobes subfiliform, the leaves usually without leaf-fascieles in their axils; 

 herbage glabrous; S. Cal. mts 2. S. floribttnda. 



1. S. nuttallii Ilel. Brush Gilia. Stems many to numerous from a woody 

 root-crown, erect or ascending, simple or oppositely branched, 3 to 9 inches high ; 

 herbage minutely puberulent ; leaves palmately divided into 3 to 7 linear lobes 3 to 

 10 lines long; lowermost leaves sometimes simple and ovate to orbicular; flowers 

 sessile or commonly so, clustered in head-like cymes; cah-x-lobes narrow-lanceolate 

 or subulate, about as long as the tube; hj-aline inteiwals below calyx sinuses well- 

 defined, extending Vo to 73 the wa,y to base; corolla 3% to 5 lines long, the throat 

 commonly yellowish, tlie tube puberulent. shorter than or a little exceeding the 

 calyx and usually a little longer than tlie obovate corolla-lobes; ovary with 7 to 10 

 ovules; capsule oblong. 



Rocky or brushy slopes in the mountains, (3500 or) 5500 to 12,000 feet: North 

 Coast Ranges from western Siskiyou Co. to Humboldt and Trinity Cos. ; Sierra 

 Nevada (mostly on the east side or on high easterly slopes or easterly plateaus, 

 though not wholly .so) from llodoc Co. to Kern Co.; White Mts.; San Bernardino 

 Mts. South to Lower California, east to New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming, 

 north to Washington. July-Aug. 



Field note. — In the desert ranges Siphonclla nuttallii is often abundant. Between 9500 and 

 12,000 feet it is not only common in such a range as the Wliite Mountains but occurs in various 

 habitats: in the Artemisia tridentata association : on meadow flats : on sand slopes about meadows, 

 coloring hundreds of yards; on boulder-stremi pine slopes though infrequent. In number of indi- 

 viduals it is the most common species after Artemisia tridentata. 



Locs. — North Coast Ranges: Cuddihy Valley (ridge above), w. Siskiyou Co., Jepson 2854; 

 Dorleska, Trinity Co.; French Camp, Humboldt Co., Tracy 5349. Sierra Nevada: Mill Creek, 

 Warner Mts., e. Modoc Co., L. S. Smith 991 ; Lake Tahoe, Lemmon ; Silver Mt., Alpine Co., Brewer 

 2042; Vermilion Valley, Fresno Co., Jejyson 13,220; Blaney Mdws., Fresno Co., E. Ferguson 448; 

 Kearsarge Mill, w. Inyo Co., Jepson 870; Farewell Gap, Tulare Co., Jepson 1007; Piute Peak, 

 Kern Co., Piirpus 5062. White Mts.: betw. Silver Caiion and Big Prospector Mdw., Jepson 7234. 

 San Bernardino Mts.: Seven Oaks, Parish 3686. Colo.: Tennessee Pass, Jepson 14,999. 



Refs. — SiPHONELLA NUTTALLII Hel., Muhl. 8:57 (1912). Gilia niiiittllii Gray, Proc. .•\m. 

 Acad. 8:267 (1870), type loc. n. Rocky Mts. (probably Wyo.), Xtitiall, the locality and collector 

 first cited. Linantlnis nuttallii Greene; Mlkn., Univ. Cal. Pulil. Bot. 2:54 (1904). S. montana 

 Nutt.; Gray, I.e. 267, as sjTionym, tj'pe loc. not given. Gilia nuttallii var. mofitana Brand in 

 Engler, Pflzr. 4-'™:125 (1907). S. parviflora Nutt.; Gray, I.e. 267, type loc. not given. Gilia 

 nuttallii var. parviflora Braod, I.e. 125. Linanthus saxiphilus Dav., Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 19:10 

 (1920), tyjie loc. Seven Oaks, San Bernardino Mts., Davidson22-i2. Leptodactylon nuttallii Rydb., 

 Bull. Torr. Club 33:149 (1906) ; Jepson, Man. 807 (1925). 



2. S. floribunda (Gray) Jepson comb. n. Stems several to man}' from a woody 

 base, erect, 7 to 15 inches high; herbage glabrous; leaves palmately divided into o 



