BORAGE FAMILY 



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(sometimes drying lavender), 3 to 6 lines broad; stamens inserted about middle or 

 somewhat above middle of corolla-tube ; nutlets 2i/^ lines long, the ovate dorsal face 

 beset with prickles. 



Open pine forests, montane ridges or flats, 5000 to 7900 feet : North Coast Ranges 

 from Lake Co. to Humboldt Co. ; Sierra Nevada from Alpine Co. to Modoc Co. and 

 eastern Siskiyou Co. North to Oregon. June-July. 



Locs. — Coast Eangea: Snow Mt., n. Lake Co., Furpus 1167; South Fork Mt., e. Humboldt 

 Co., Tracy 9024 ; Corral Prairie, Trbiity Summit, Tracy 10,428. Sierra Nevada: Eed Lake, Alpine 

 Co., Peirson 11,618; Jonesville, Butte Co., Heller 11,657; Feather River Mdws., near Rice Creek, 

 n. Plumas Co., Jepson 12,281; Camp Lee, Warner Creek, n. Plumas Co., Jepson 12,310; Hot 

 Springs Valley, Lassen Peak, Jepson 4078 ; Mineral, 

 e. Tehama Co., J. Grinnell; Porestdale, sw. Modoc Co., 

 M. S. BaTcer ; Medicine Lake, e. Siskiyou Co., M. S. 

 BaTcer ; Fowlers Camp, McCloud River, se. Siskiyou 

 Co., Jepson 20,065. 



Var. mundula Jepson var. n. Corolla pink-red. — 

 (Corolla punicea.) — Open white fir woods, near Long 

 Mdw., n. Tulare Co., Jepson 720 (type). Its geo- 

 graphic isolation, in connection with intangible dif- 

 ferences in aspect, lends this form some significance. 



Eefs. — Lappula CALirORNiCA Piper, Bull. Torr. 

 Club 29:546 (1902) ; Jepson, Man. 840 (1925). EcU- 

 nospermum califomicum Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 

 225 (1882), type loc. Mt. Shasta, Pringle (typ. vidi), 

 (cf. Bull. Torr. Club 29:546). Eaclcelia calif arnica 

 Jtn., Contrib. Gray Herb. 68:47 (1923). Var. mun- 

 dula Jepson. 





Fig. 413. Lappula velutina Piper. 

 a, fl. branchlet, X % ; 6, long sect, of fl., 

 X 2 ; c, f r., X 3. 



10. L. velutina Piper. (Fig. 413.) Stems 

 erect, 1 to 2 feet high ; herbage silky or velvety- 

 pubescent ; leaves 1 to 6 inches long, the blades 

 oblong to linear (rarely ovate or lanceolate), 

 the upper sessile or subauriculately clasping, 

 the lower and basal on petioles Vs to as long ; 

 panicles compact, medium-sized, becoming 

 large and spreading in fruit; calyx-lobes 

 ovate, obtuse, half as long as the corolla-tube ; 

 corolla blue, or blue changing to pink, or some- 

 times pink, the limb 5 to 7 lines broad, the 

 crests conspicuous, white or whitish, densely 



white-hairy on the upper surface, recurved and notched at apex, % as long as the 

 corolla-lobes ; stamens inserted about middle or a little above middle of corolla- 

 tube ; nutlets with the dorsal face beset and bordered with prickles. 



Dry open woods, montane, 5000 to 8500 feet : Sierra Nevada from Tehama Co. 

 to Tulare Co. June-July. 



Locs. — Mineral, e. Tehama Co., /. Grinnell; Gold Lake, Sierra Co., Lemmon; betw. Emigrant 

 Gap and Blue Canon, Placer Co., K. Brandegee ; Fallen Leaf Lake, Eldorado Co., Ottley 835; 

 betw. Myers sta. and Angora Ridge, Eldorado Co., Ottley 972; Dorrington, Calaveras Co., Jepson 

 10,053; Silver Lake, Amador Co., Hansen 427; Sugar Pine, Tuolumne Co., Chesnut # Drew; 

 Mammoth, sw. Mono Co., K. Brandegee; Rancheria Mt., above Heteh-Hetchy, Jepson 3402; 

 Hodgdon ranch, near Tuolumne Grove, Jepson 10,552; Mariposa Grove, Bolandcr 4882; betw. 

 Tehipite Valley and Gnat Mdw., Middle Fork Kings River, E. Ferguson 530; Andrews Camp, 

 Bishop Creek, Inyo Co., K. Brandegee; Long Mdw., near Mt. Silliman, Tulare Co., Jepson 720; 

 Mt. Moses, Tulare Co., Furpus 1454. 



Refa. — Lappula velutina Piper, Bull. Torr. Club 29:546 (1902), type loc. Grant Park, 

 Fresno Co., T. Brandegee; Jepson, Man. 840 (1925). Eaclcelia velutina Jtn., Contrib. Gray Herb. 

 68:47 (1923). 



11. L. nervosa Greene. Stems few, erect, 1 to 1^/2 feet high, glabrous or thinly 

 spreading-hirsute ; leaves thinly hispidulose, the hairs arising from dark pits or 

 half -craters ; leaf-blades oblong-ovate to oblong-spatulate or oblong, 1 to S^/^ inches 



