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late; petioles 1% to 4 inches long; peduncles much shorter than the petioles, in 

 fruit recurved, % to 1 inch long ; pedicels as long as or longer than the calyx ; calyx- 

 lobes silky-pubescent and bristly-margined ; corolla white, 2^4 lines long. 



Moist gravel or clay slopes in the mountains, 3000 to 7000 feet : Placer Co. to 

 Modoc and eastern Siskiyou Cos. North to Washington, east to Utah. May-Aug. 



Locs. — Deer Park. Placer Co., Fox; Truckee, Nevada Co., Michener ; Chester, Plumas Co., 

 J. Grinnell; Hay den Hill, Lassen Co., L. S. Smith; Deep Creek ranger sta., Warner Mts., L. S. 

 Smith 1107; Bull Mdws., 

 Gooscnest Mt., e. Siski- 

 you Co., Butler 1324. 



Refs. — Hydkophyl- 



LHM CAPITATUM Dougl. ; 



Benth., Trans. Linn. Soe. 

 17:273 (1S35), type loc. 

 "interior of Columbia 

 [River], N. W. Am.," 

 Douglas ; Jepson, Man. 

 810 (1925). H. capita- 

 turn var. alpinum Wats., 

 Bot. King 249 (1871), 

 type loc. East Humboldt 

 Mts., Nev., Watson 868; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 

 433 (1901). 



2. H. occidentale 



Gray. Squaw Let- 

 tuce. (Fig. 393.) 

 Stems short, 1 to 2 

 (or 6) inches high, 

 much exceeded by 

 the basal and sub- 

 basal leaves (these 4 

 to 15 inches high), 

 and bearing termi- 

 nally or above the 



middle the loug-peduncled cymes, these longer or shorter than the leaves; herbage 

 hirsute, the leaves green above, white-canescent beneath; leaf -blades oblong in 

 outline, 2 to 6 inches long, pinnate, the 7 to 13 leaflets or divisions broadly ovate to 

 oblong, few-toothed, incised or entire, mucronate, Y2 to 2 inches long ; petioles % 

 to 6 inches long ; peduncles 1 to 9 inches long, longer than the petioles, bearing 1 or 

 2 head-like clusters of flowers, the heads 1 to 1% inches broad ; pedicels shorter than 

 the calyx ; calyx-lobes puberulent and bristly-margined ; corolla pale blue or lilac, 

 4 to 6 lines long. 



Mostly montane, open pine woods, brushy slopes or shade of stream borders, 

 2600 to 8600 feet: Coast Ranges (mostly in the inner range) from Monterey Co. 

 and the Mt. Hamilton Range to western Siskiyou Co. ; Tehachapi Mts.; Sierra Ne- 

 vada from Tulare Co. to eastern Shasta Co. North to Oregon. Apr.- July. 



Locs. — Coast Ranges: Mt. San Carlos (Zoe 4:155); Arroyo Moeho, Mt. Hamilton Range, 

 Elmer 4330; Mt. Diablo, Jepson 9209; Knoxville, ne. Napa Co., C. F. BaTcer 3083; Snow Mt., n. 

 Lake Co., T. Brandegee; Shervpood Valley, cent. Mendocino Co., Davy 5195; Buck Mt., Humboldt 

 Co., Tracy 13,955 ; Cold Fork Cottonwood Creek, near Greasewood HUls, w. Tehama Co., Jepson 

 21,007; South Fork Mt., Trinity Co., Jepson 16,666; Quartz Valley, w. Siskiyou Co., Butler 691. 

 Tehachapi Mts. : Basse # Davidson 1738. Sierra Nevada : Tobias Peak, s. Tulare Co., C. N. Smith 

 12 ; Clough Cave, Tulare Co., TV. Fry 338 ; betw. Colony Mill and Marble Fork, Tulare Co., Jepson 

 666 ; Shaver, Fresno Co., Mainwarinq 39 ; betw. Hazel Green and Yosemite, Jepson 21,008 ; Hetch- 

 Hetchy, A. L. Grant 992 ; Hulls Mdw., Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 1227 ; Canon Creek, n. Eldorado 

 Co., L. S. Smith 1798; Alta, Placer Co., Lloyd Austin; Mineral, e. Tehama Co., Jepson 12,278; 

 Goose Valley, ne. Shasta Co., M. S. Balcer. 



Refs. — Hydrophyllum occidentale Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10:314 (1875) ; Jepson, Fl. W. 

 Mid. Cal. 433 (1901), ed. 2, 337 (1911), Man. 810 (1925). E. macrophyllum Nutt. var. occiden- 



Fig. 393. Hydrophyllum occidentale Gray. 

 a, habit, X Va ; 6, fl., X SVi- 



