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Loca. — Willow Sprs. sta., n. Amador Co., Jcpson 15,247 (type) ; Burson, Calaveras Co., 

 Jepson 9951a; cast of Knights Ferry, David Goddard. 



5. L. montana Jepson sp. n. Mountain Foam. Stems slender or almost fili- 

 form, 1 or several from the base, branching only above, 4 to 9 inches high; herbage 

 glabrous; calyces glabrous or sometimes slightly hairy; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate; petals white, apparently not aging pink, subspatulate, that is, obtusely 

 obovate at summit and contracted below into a long broad claw, 3 to 4^/2 lines long, 

 % to 1% lines wide ; nutlets long-obovoid, acutely warty at summit. — (Caules gra- 

 ciles vel subfiliformes, unc. 4^9 alti; herbae glabrae; calyces glabri vel nunc leviter 

 pubescentes; sepala ovato-lanceolata, acuminata; petala alba, species non in aetate 

 rubicundula, subspatulata, lin. 3-41/2 longa, %-l% lata; nuculae longo-obovoideae, 

 acute summae verrucosae.) 



Springy situations, 2000 to 5500 feet : southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare Co. 

 Mar. -May. 



Locs.— Oriole Lake, on headwaters of a branch of Squirrel Creek, W. Fry 346 (type) ; Middle 

 Fork Tule River, Peirson 5629. 



6. L. versicolor Rydb. Shasta Foam. Stems 1 or few from the base, firmly 

 erect, 5 to 13 inches high; herbage glabrous; leaves mostly basal; leaflets oblong or 

 linear, entire or 3-divided, 1 to 5 lines long; flowers somewhat corymbose, on pedi- 

 cels 1/2 to 21/4 inches long; sepals ovately lanceolate, acuminate, % to nearly as long 

 as the petals; petals "cream-color, changing to lilac-purple at the tips", narrow 

 (I14 to 2 lines wide), 4 to 5 lines long; nutlets smoothish or a little wrinkled, des- 

 titute of distinct tubercles. 



Along streams, 1000 to 2000 feet : Shasta Co. May-July. 



Locs. — Morley sta.. Baker 4" Nutting ; Tamarack road at Stalkers, M. S. Baker 359. 



Var. parisMi Jepson var. n. Plant diffuse; calyces disposed to be somewhat rotate, the 

 sepals less acuminate than in the species; nutlets wrinkled, the ridges bearing fine granules. — 

 (Plantae diffusae; calyces subrotati, sepalis quam in specie minus acuminatis; nuculae rugatae, 

 liris minute granosis.) — Stonewall Mine, Cuyamaca Mts., Parish 4416 (type). 



Refs. — LiMNANTHES VERSICOLOR Rydb. N. Am. Fl. 25:99 (1910). Floerkea versicolor 

 Greene, Erythea 3:62 (1895), type loc. Cedar Run, Shasta Co., Baker 4- Nutting. Var. parishh 

 Jepson. 



2. FLOERKEA Willd. 



Similar to Limnanthes but the flowers 3-merous. Petals small, entire, shorter 

 than the sepals, alternate with as many glands. Stamens 6. Stigmas 3, not capi- 

 tate. — Species 1, North America. (H. G. Floerke, 1764-1835, a German botanist.) 



1. F. proserpinacoides Willd. Stems slender, (II/2 or) 6 to 12 inches high; 

 herbage glabrous; petals white, 1 line long; nutlets with somewhat slender tubercles 

 at summit. 



Mountain valleys, 5000 to 7500 feet : northern Sierra Nevada from Placer Co. 

 to Modoc Co. North to Washington, east to Delaware. June. 



Locs. — Truckee River, Placer Co., Sonne 344; Cisco, B. A. Walker 1314; Long Lake, Plumas 

 Co.; Squaw Valley, Nevada Co. (Zoe 4:151) ; Soupan Sprs., Lassen Peak; Susanville, T. Brande- 

 gee; Big Valley Mts., Baker 4" Nutting. 



Refs. — Floerkea proserpinacoides Willd. Neue Schr. Ges. Nat. Fr. Berl. 3:449 (1801) 

 type from Pennsylvania; Jepson, Man. 593 (1925). 



POLYGALACEAE. Polygala Family 



Perennial herbs or bushes with alternate simple leaves and no stipules. Flowers 

 irregular and resembling the papilionaceous flowers of Leguminosae, but not like 

 them in structure, borne in terminal racemes. Stamens (in ours) monadelphous. 

 Ovary simple, superior. — Genera 8, species 780, widely distributed over nearly the 

 entire earth. 



