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Santa Rosa and San Jacinto mountains. Including slightly modified forms (vari- 

 etally named and described below), it ranges west to central San Diego Co., north 

 to the San Bernardino Mts., San Gabriel Mts. (easterly part), Santa Lucia Mts., 

 Mt. Piiios region and Tehachapi Mts., southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare, Inyo and 

 Kern counties, and the desert ranges of Inyo Co. ; thence east to Nevada and Ari- 

 zona. June-July. 



Note on geog. variation. — In the ranges of the arid regions of Southern California and in 

 the deserts Monardella linoides is a widely distributed species occurring in extremely scattered 

 stations. A terrain so very wide and so diversified, mainly intramontane and transmontane but 

 also cismontane in San Diego County, embraces various mountain systems and various minor 

 climatic regions, in each of which forms of Monardella linoides with some slight differences have 

 been developed, but these are less than usually assigned to the rank of variety. Variation in this 

 species, as here accepted and described, is not so great as the sj-nonymy would indicate. The forms 

 represented by the names Monardella linoides, Monardella viminea, Monardella linoides var. 

 stricta (or M. epilobioides) , Monardella saxicola and Monardella anemonoides (and M. oblonga) 

 all represent one natural type with only minor and inconstant divergences in size of heads and 

 form and size of bracts. The outer bracts are markedly variable ; sometimes they are f oliaceous 

 and t\\'ice exceeding the heads; sometimes reduced and shorter than the heads; or sometimes none. 

 Nevertheless, a preponderance of the essential features in these various forms bears the stamp of 

 one unit structurally, one biological type, and characterizes the group which occupies a definite 

 and distinctive life area geographically. The typical form taxonomieally, that is the original 

 Monardella linoides, inhabits the Cuyamaca Mts. and extends north to the Santa Eosa and San 

 Jacinto mountains. The leaves are mostly linear and very narrow; the bracts are orl>ieular or 

 broadly ovate and mostly obtuse or shortly acute. The following stations may be cited : Cuyamaca 

 Mts. ; Coyote Canon, Hall 2137 ; Santa Eosa Mts., Mum 5921 ; Tahquitz Valley, San Jacinto Mts., 

 Uall 758; Palm Sprs. of Mt. San Jacinto (20 mi. s.), Hall 2430. 



Westerly, northward and northwesterly from the region inhabited by typical Monardella 

 linoides, five forms, for convenience named as varieties, are here described. Between tj-pical 

 Monardella linoides and these forms there are intermediates, but the forms have, nevertheless, 

 some geographic significance. They are as follows: 



Var. viminea Munz. Woody below, 2 feet high; leaf -blades linear-lanceolate; bracts ovate, 

 acute. — Stream beds and foothill ravines, 10 to 1500 feet, western San Diego Co.: Poway, Parish; 

 Murphy Canon, Epling ; San Diego, T. Brandegee. Although geographically well segregated, this 

 form has little else to recommend its retention. 



Var. stricta Parish. Leaves linear to oblong (3 to 8 lines long), the bracts oblong-ovate 

 to ovate, acute or acuminate, and more commonly pink than in the typical form. — Montane slopes 

 and canons, 6400 to 9100 feet: east end of the San Gabriel Mts. (Le Montaine, near Swartout 

 Valley, Feirson 3160) ; San Bernardino Mts. (Little Green Valley, G. E. Hall; Bear Lake, Clolcey 

 7002; Gold Mt., J. Grinnell; Holcomb Valley, Munz 10,642; MUl Creek Canon, E. J. Smith; Mt. 

 San Gorgonio, Geo. B. Grant ; South Pork Mdws., Santa Ana Canon, Hall 7676). This form also 

 occurs from southern Nevada through Arizona to Lower California. 



Var. palmeri (Gray) Jepson. Stems low, 4 to 6 inches high; leaf-blades oblong, obtuse, 

 glabrous or finely glandular; bracts ovate to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, purplish; calyx-teeth 

 linear-lanceolate. — "Among redwoods," Santa Lucia Mts., coast of Monterey Co. This form is 

 very close to certain forms of the var. stricta. 



Var. anemonoides (Greene) Jepson. Somewhat coarser than in M. linoides; stems a little 

 peduncle-like above, the terminal heads with their somewhat enveloping petaloid bracts presenting 

 the aspect of a one-flowered species of Anemone; leaves oblong; heads larger than in the typical 

 form (% to lyy inches broad, but small-headed forms also occur) ; bracts orbicular to ovate, 

 obtuse or more commonly acute or acuminate. — Eocky slopes, 4500 to 8500 feet: mountains of 

 northern Ventura Co. (Prazier Mt., Dudley 4' Lamb 4542; Mt. Pifios, /. Grinnell); Tehachapi 

 Mts. (Bisses sta., Dudley 476) ; east slope or easterly ridges and flats of the southern Sierra Ne- 

 vada from Kern Co. to Mono Co. (Pah Ute Peak, Kern Co., Purpus 5096; KernvUle, Hall 4' Bah- 

 coclc 5095; Monache Creek, Olancha Mt., Hall 4- BalcocTc 5268; Trout Mdws., e. Tulare Co., Hall 

 8380; Cottonwood Creek, w. Inyo Co., Purpus 1947; near Convict Lake, sw. Mono Co., Almcda 

 Nordylce) ; Inyo Co. ranges (Argus Peak, Purpus 5089; Big Pine, 10 mi. ne., Keck 534). In its 

 extreme and most robust form, with the broad acute or acuminate bracts conspicuously exceeding 

 the flowers, the var. anemonoides is a truly striking plant; but variations of it, in which the broad 

 bracts, rounded at apex and shortly acute, are shorter than the flowers or merely equal them, are 

 not uncommon. 



Var. saxicola (Jtn.) Jepson comb. n. Leaves' olive-green above, pale beneath; bracts 

 orbicular-ovate to ovate, broivnish, pubescent, ciliate. — Dry rocky ridges and slopes in the chapar- 

 ral belt, 4000 to 5200 feet, region of San Antonio Caiion, San Gabriel Mts.: Bro^-ns Flats; Evey 

 Caiion, Jolinston 1440; Cueamonga Peak, Johnston 2050. There is in this variety a wide range 

 in leaf -size in one collection, as also frequently in var. anemonoides (cf. Big Pine Creek, Inyo Co., 

 B. S. Ferris 8983). The inner bracts in var. saxicola are mostly shorter than the flowers; the 



