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1. P. palustris L. var. calif omica Gray. Scape 5 or 9 to 16 inclies high; leaf- 

 blades round-ovate to elliptic, 1 to 1% inches long, contracted at base into a petiole; 

 petals oval or obovate, 6 to 9 lines long; sterile filaments capillary, 20 to 24 in a set, 

 united to the middle. 



Wet meadows : near the coast, 1500 to 2500 feet, from the Santa Cruz Mts. to 

 Marin Co.; high montane, 6300 to 11,000 feet, in the San Bernardino Mts. and in 

 the Sierra Nevada from Tulare Co. to Eldorado Co. and north to Mt. Shasta. 

 North to southwestern Oregon. Aug.-Nov. 



Locs. — S. Cal. : South Fork Santa Ana Mdws., San Bernardino Mts., Peirson 2249. Coast 

 Eanges: Loma Prieta, Davy 379; Bootjack Camp, Mt. Tamalpais, Jepson 10,304; Red Mt., n. 

 Mendocino Co., C. P. Bonsall. Sierra Nevada: Alta Mdws., Tulare Co., Hopping 506; Whitney 

 Creek, Kern Canon, Jepson 1098; Bubbs Creek, Hopping 167; Heart Lake, Rock Creek, nw. Inyo 

 Co., ace. Peirson; Lake of the Lone Indian, Fresno Co., A. L. Grant 1550; Mono Hot Sprs., 

 Fresno Co., A. L. Grant 1482 ; Kennedy Mdw., East Fork of Middle Stanislaus River, A. L. Grant 

 462; Sonora Pass, A. L. Grant 347; Grass Lake near Fallen Leaf, Jepson 8158; Mt. Shasta, 

 e. slope, M. S. BaJcer. 



Refs. — Parnassia palustris L. Sp. PI. 273 (1753), type European. Var. californica 

 Gray, Bot. Cal. 1:202 (1876), type loc. Mariposa Co.; Howell, Erythea 3:179; Jepson, Fl. W. 

 Mid. Cal. 271 (1901), ed, 2, 200 (1911), Man. 465, fig. 459 (1925). P. californica Greene, Pitt. 

 2: 102 (1890). 



2. P. cirrata Piper. Similar to no. 1; rootstock more slender; petals not so 

 broad. 



Meadows, 2500 to 8000 feet: San Bernardino Mts.; San Gabriel Mts.; Mt. 

 Shasta region. Rare. 



Logs. — Vivian Creek, Mt. San Gorgonio (ace. Peirson) ; North Fork San Gabriel River 

 (Lorquinia 2:22); upper Sacramento River (Erythea 7:128). 



Refs. — Parnassia cirrata Piper, Erythea 7:128 (1899), type loc. Gilman Caiion, Mt. San 

 Bernardino, S. B. <?• W. F. Parish; Parish, PI. World 20:216 (1917) ; Jepson, Man. 465 (1925). 



3. P. fimbriata Konig. Also similar to no. 1; leaf -blades % to 1% inches 

 broad. 



Mountain meadows : Modoc Co. North to Alaska, east to Colorado. July- Aug. 



Locs. — Deer Park, Placer Co., Helen Geis; Bowman Lake, Nevada Co., A. M. Carpenter; 

 Owl Creek Canon, Warner Mts., L. S. Smith 1049. 



Refs. — Parnassia fimbriata Konig, Ann. Bot. 1:391 (1805), type loc. Northwest Coast, 

 Menzies; Jepson, Man. 465 (1925). 



15. PHILADELPHUS L. Syringa. Mock Orange 



Deciduous shrubs with opposite leaves. Flowers white, showy, in ours in a 

 terminal raceme or thyrse. Calyx-limb 4 or 5-parted, valvate in the bud, persist- 

 ent. Petals 4 or 5, convolute in the bud. Stamens 20 to 40. Ovary inferior, in 

 ours 4-celled; styles 4 (3 to 5), distinct above the middle or at apex. Capsule 

 loculicidally 4-valved, the valves commonly splitting a little at apex between the 

 partitions; placentae projecting from above the middle of the axis, bearing many 

 seeds. — Species about 13, North America and Asia. (Name of an Egyptian King, 

 the application not obvious.) 



Leaves green on both faces; calyx-tube green, glabrous or subglabrous; along streams — 



1. P. lewisii. 



Leaves whitish-pubescent, at least beneath; calyx-tube whitish-pubescent; on rocks 



2. P. microphyllus. 



1. P. lewisii Pursh var. californicus Gray. Loosely branching, 4 to 11 feet 

 high; herbage varying from glabrous or with very slight trace of pubescence to 

 obviously hairy; leaf -blades ovate, acute, commonly entire or a little dentate, l^/^ 

 to 3 inches long, on petioles 2 to 4 lines long; flowers % to 1^^ inches broad; petals 

 4, elliptic; styles commonly 4, distinct the upper i/4 to %. 



Along water courses, 1100 to 4000 feet : Sierra Nevada from Tulare Co. to 

 Shasta Co.; Humboldt Co. May- July. 



