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Refs. — Eriodictton tomentosum Benth., Bot. Sulph. 36 (1844), type from Cal., Douglas; 

 Curran, Bull. Cal. Acad. 1:201 (1885). E. niveum Eastw., Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 3, 1:130 (1898), 

 type loc. Jolon, Eastwood. E. crassifolium aubsp. henthamianum Brand var. niveum Brand; 

 Engler, Pflzr. 4=":140, fig. 26 (1913). E. crassifolium var. niveum Jepson, Man. 834 (1925). 



7. E. traskiae Eastw. Yerba Dama. Shrub 2 to 4 feet high, similar in aspect 

 to E. tomentosum, the tomentum on the stems thinner; leaf -blades ovate-elliptic to 

 broadly oblong, erenate to sinuate or subentire, gi-eenish and densely pubescent 

 above, white-tomentose beneath, li/4 to 5 inches long; cymes denser and usually 

 fewer in the panicle than in E. tomentosum, the inflorescence, therefore, rather 

 small ; calyx-lobes narrow-linear, dark and glandular-eiliate ; corolla blue, the tube 

 3 lines long, constricted at the throat, the lobes abruptly spreading, about 1 line 

 long ; stamens unequally inserted on lower part of corolla-tube, the filaments short, 

 not in relief below point of insertion; styles not exserted from corolla; capsule 

 4-seeded. 



Brushy hills, 100 to 3500 feet : coastal ranges in San Luis Obispo and Santa 

 Barbara Cos. ; Santa Catalina Isl. May-June. 



Locs. — San Luis Obispo Co.: Santa Lucia Mts., Condit 21. Santa Barbara Co.: Purisima 

 HUls, Jepson 11,956; Painted Cave ranch, Santa Ynez Mts., Eastwood 121; near Santa Barbara, 

 T. Brandegee. Santa Catalina Isl.: Whites Ldg., Abrams # Wiggins 324; Avalon, TrasTc. 



Refs. — Eriodictton traskiae Eastw., Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 3, 1 :131 (1898), type loc. volcanic 

 upland, Santa Catalina Isl., Trash; Trask, Erj-thea 7:143 (1899). E. crassifolium var. trasTciae 

 Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4=51; 140 (1913) ; Jepson, Man. 835 (1925). 



8. E. parryi Greene. Stems coarse, erect, densely leafy below, slightly woody 

 at base, several in a clump from a deep taproot, 4 to 9 (or 12) feet high; herbage 

 viscid-hirsute and ill-scented; leaf-blades lanceolate, coarsely serrate to dentate or 

 denticulate, acuminate, drawn down to a narrow base, sessile (or subsessile), 3 

 to 12 inches long; flowers in scorpioid spikes, the spikes in a virgate panicle % 

 to 2% feet long; pedicels short (% line) ; calyx glandular-hirsute, its lobes linear- 

 lanceolate, about 1,4 length of corolla; corolla purple or lavender, pubescent out- 

 side, obscurely 2-lipped, the middle lobe of lower lip smaller than the lateral, the 

 tube 5-angled at base; stamens included, 3 long and 2 short; filaments % to % 

 adnate, slightly hairy at their middle, the adnate portion winged on each side ; base 

 of style and summit of ovary hairy ; styles distinct to base ; ovules about 7 to 14 

 in each cell of the ovai-y ; capsule about 4 to 12-seeded. 



Sandy or gravelly soil of slopes and ridges in the mountains, (2000 or) 4000 to 

 7000 feet : southern Sierra Nevada from Fresno Co. to Kern Co. ; inner South Coast 

 Range in San Luis Obispo Co. ; intramontane in ranges bordering the Mohave and 

 Colorado deserts on the west ; cismontane Southern California. South to San Pedro 

 Martir, northern Lower California. June-July. 



Field note. — Although thought of as a rare plant, Eriodictyon parryi is at some stations 

 abundant in individuals, as at the head of Lone Pine Caiion in the eastern San Gabriel Mountains 

 {Wolf 2498). It has also been observed as common in the open woodlands on the northeasterly 

 summits of Palomar Mountain where it is associated with Quercus kelloggii, Libocedrus decur- 

 rens and Pseudotsuga macroearpa {Jepson 1489). In the San Gabriel Mountains it prefers the 

 summits of ridges {F. W. Peirson). In the Piute Mountains of the Sierra Nevada in Kern County 

 there are two colonies near the road between Loraine and Piute Lookout (C. N. Smith 219). At 

 other stations, on the contrary, as in Bull Creek basin, drainage of the Kern Biver, only two 

 individuals have been observed (C. N. Smith 38). During the flowering period the tall simple 

 stems are densely clothed with leaves well up towards the inflorescence, those toward the base of 

 the stem being reflexed or pendulous. The placental partitions do not meet in the axis, the capsule 

 thus being incompletely 2-celled. Dehiscence first begins septieidally and is soon followed by 

 loculicidal rupture. The cells are 2 to 4 or even Sseeded. 



Locs. — S. Sierra Nevada from Fresno Co. to Kern Co. : Horseshoe Bend, Kings River, Fresno 

 Co., Virginia Bailey ; Shadequarter Mt., Tulare Co., Geo. Purdy ; Kernville, Sail 4" BabcocTc 5095. 

 Inner South Coast Range in San Luis Obispo Co.: Goodwin, e. part of county, perhaps near 

 Simraler (Zoe 4:155). Intramontane and cismontane S. Cal.: Pine Canon, Liebre Mts., Hall 

 3088 ; Lockwood Valley, Mt. Pinos, Hall 6697 ; Alamo Mt., n. Ventura Co., Hall 6707 ; Pine Canon, 

 Elizabeth Lake, Hall' 3088; Mt. Wilson, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 170; Kentucky Sprs., San 

 Gabriel Mts., Barber 209; Swartout Valley, San Gabriel Mts., Epling ; San Bernardino Mts. 



