Flora of South Fork of Kings River. 7 1 



entire length. Corolla white or pink, salver-form, with broad, 

 obcordate lobes forming the border which is 'i/i in. wide. Ovary 

 oblong-linear. Millwood, under the trees, blooming in the spring. 



Phlox Douglasii Hook. Much branched from a woody base, 

 forming mats. Leaves crowded, clasping at base, almost terete, 

 spine-tipped. Flowers solitary, terminating short stems. Calyx 

 about X ill- ^oiig) with the tube woolly pubescent as long as the 

 divisions ; these stiff, terete, spine-tipped, woolly-ciliate. Corolla 

 salver-form, pink or white, the tube equaled by the calyx, the 

 obovate lobes half as long. This covers the ground sometimes 

 for yards in extent and grows not far below timber line. Bull- 

 frog Lake. 



Microsteris sp. Low, much branched, glandular-pubescent. 

 Leavesi linear-lanceolate, entire, sessile, an inch or less long, 

 pointed. Flowers small in the upper axils, on slender pedicels. 

 Calyx divisions extending almost to the base, with membranous 

 margins, spine-tipped, almost as long as the slender corolla. 

 Corolla salver-form, pink or white, with small border of rounded 

 divisions, the tube widening somewhat at the throat. Seeds flat, 

 3, margined, the embryo distinctly seen within the coats. Bubbs 

 Creek. 



Polemonium eximium Greene. Mountain Verbena, 

 Stems tufted from a tap-root, forming bunches varying in size, 

 clothed at base by the dry, densely clustered bases of former 

 leaves ; glandular pubescent and viscid throughout. Leaves 

 linear in outline, on long margined petioles dilated at base ; twice 

 compound, with the divisions minute and closely folded on each 

 other ; stem leaves with short petioles or none. Flowers crowded 

 in a head terminating the stem, an inch or more in diameter. 

 Calyx bell-shaped, with the divisions not quite so long as the 

 purplish tube, oblong-linear, obtuse. Corolla bluish purple, 

 salver-form, the tube a little longer than the divisions of the 

 calyx ; divisions orbicular, X i^i- wide. This is the most showy 

 plant above timber line. It is sweet scented and abundant, grow- 

 ing amid the rocks. Kearsarge Pass and Harrisons Pass. 



