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calyx light purple, glandular-puberulent and often also slightly hairy, its tube vase-shaped, 

 cylindric or in age somewhat urnshaped; stamens much shorter than the petals. — Koeky mostly 

 pine slopes, 5000 to 8800 feet: San Gabriel, San Bernardino, San Jacinto and Cuyamaca moun- 

 tains. July. 



Locs. — Mt. Lowe, Peirson 67; Cucamonga Peak; Mt. San Antonio; Bear Valley, San Ber- 

 nardino Mts., Parish 1820 ; Bear Creek Canon, San Bernardino Mts. ; Toro Peak, Santa Eosa Mts., 

 Mum 5785 ; Cuyamaca Mts. 



Var. abramsii Jepson comb. n. Plants 3 to 5 (or 9) inches high, similar to var. elegans; 

 scapes merely puberulent; panicles narrow; flowers 2% lines long; calyx dark crimson, merely 

 glandular-puberulent. — Eoeky places, 9000 to 10,000 

 feet: Mt. San Antonio (Peirson 3207) ; Mt, San Gorgo- 

 nio; Mt. San Jacinto. 



Var. alpicola Jepson var. n. Plants 4 to 7 inches 

 high ; leaf -blades truncatish at base or subcordate, 3 to 

 6 lines wide; panicle small (1 to 3 inches long) ; calyx 

 somewhat dull. — (Plantae unc. 4-7 altae; folia basi 

 subtruncata vel subcordata, lin. 3-6 lata; panicula 

 parva (unc. 1-3 longa) ; calyx paulo hebes.) — High 

 montane, 10,000 to 12,000 feet: Sierra Nevada from 

 Mariposa Co. (Benson Lake, Jepson 3377, type) to 

 Tulare Co. (Mt. Whitney, Burton 4" Ryerson 56). 



Refs. — Heuchera rubescens Torr. Stansb. Expl. 

 Great Salt Lake, 388, t. 5 (1852), type loe. Stansbury 

 Isl., Salt Lake, Stansbury; Jepson, Fl. "W. Mid. Cal. 

 271 (1901), ed. 2, 200 (1911), Man. 463 (1925). H. 

 lithophila Hel. Muhl. 1:105 (1904), type loc. Summit 

 sta., Donner Pass, Heller 7028. H. pachypoda Greene, 

 Lflts. 1:111 (1905), type loc. near Lone Pine, Inyo Co. 

 (7000 ft.), Jones. B. rubescens var. glandulosa Kell. 

 Proc. Cal. Acad. 5:45 (1873), type loc. Castle Peak 

 (formerly Mt. Stanford), Kellogg. Var. nevadensis 

 Jepson. S. rubescens var. pringlei Jepson, Man. 463 

 (1925) ; not H. pringlei Rydb. Var. parishii Jepson, 

 I.e. H. parishii Rydb. N. Am. Fl. 22:109 (1905), type 

 loc. Mill Creek Falls, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 

 2512. E. hirsuta Rydb. I.e., type loc. Snow Canon, e. 

 San Bernardino Mts., Parish 5062. H. elegans var. 

 hirsuta Eos.; Engler, Bot. Jahrb. 37^: beibl. 78 (1906). 

 Var. ELEGANS Jepson, I.e. H. elegans Abrams, Bull. S. 

 Cal. Acad. 1:67 (1902), type loc. Martins Camp, Mt. 

 "Wilson, San Gabriel Mts., Abrams 1903. H. caespitosa 

 Eastw. Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 2, 6:426 (1896), type loc. 

 San Emigdio Canon, Kern Co., Jasper. Var. abramsii Jepson 



Fig. 153. Heuchera rubescens Torr. 

 var. ELEGANS Jepson. a, base of plant, 

 XV2;b, infl., X i/o ; c, long. sect, of fl., 

 X 3. 



H. abramsii Rydb. N. Am. Fl. 



22:109 (1905), type loc. Mt. San Antonio, Abrams 1924. Var. alpicola Jepson. 



7. H. merriamii Eastw. Plants 8 to 11 inches high; scapes and petioles 

 sparsely hirsutulose or subglabrous; leaf -blades sub-orbicular, shallowly lobed and 

 crenately toothed, truncatish at base, % to 1% inches wide; panicle contracted 

 or dense, minutely glandular-puberulent; flowers 21/2 to 3 lines long; calyx-lobes 

 ellipsoid or oblong, very obtuse, dark red; calyx-tube hemispheric; petals lance- 

 olate; stamens exserted. 



Higher mountains, 6000 to 7000 feet : Trinity and Siskiyou Cos. Aug. 



Loc. — Marble Valley, w. Siskiyou Co., Butler 221. 



Refs.— Heuchera merriamii Eastw. Bull. Torr. Club 32:199 (1905), type loc. Canon Creek, 

 Salmon Mts., Trinity Co., C. Hart Merriam. 



H. pringlei Rydb. N. Am. Fl. 22:111 (1905), type loe. Castle Lake, Scott Mts., Pringle. 

 Plants about 6 inches high ; leaf -blades suborbicular, trimcatish at base, the lobes ovate, acute ; 

 panicle 1% to 2 inches long, very narrow; flowers 1 to l^^ lines long; calyx bowl-shaped, its lobes 

 ellipsoid, obtuse. — Salmon Mts. ; the material still too scanty to permit proper study. 



12. TOLMIEA T. & G. 



Perennial herb. Stems ending in a raceme. Leaves chiefly basal. Petals 5 or 

 4, filiform, subulate, elongated, inserted in the sinuses of the calyx, recurved, 



