f,n8 ONAGRACEAE 



color or i)ink. dooply omar-rinate, 2 to 3^0 lines lonj?; racemes maturing usually 1 



to 4 capsules. o, t • 



Bot:«:y frround in the lii<rher mountains, 5300 to 8000 feet: San Jacmto and 



San Beniarilino mountains; Sierra Nevada from Fresno Co. to Mt. Shasta; YoUo 



Bolly Mts. East to Nevada, north to British Columbia. June- July. 



Locs.— S. Cal.: Tahquitz Valley, San Jacinto Mts., Condit ; Bluff Lake, San Bernardino Mts., 



Mum 10 G21. Sierra Nevada: Bullfrog Lake, Bubbs Creek, Fresno Co., Jepson 840; Mono Hot 



Sprs., Fresno Co., E. Fcrpuson 427 ; Westfall's Mdw., Mariposa Co., Bolander 4965 ; Mt. Shasta, 



Jepson 14,470. Yollo Bollv Mts.: South YoUo Bolly, Jepson 14,471. 



Rofs.— EriLomuM oueoonense Ilausskn. Monog. Epilob. 276 (1884), type from Ore., Ball 



179; Jepson, Man. 669 (1925). 



10. E. watsonii Barbey. Coast Cottonweed. Stems rather stout, erect, 

 simple below though more or less branched above, usually reddish, shortly pilose- 

 pubescent and sometimes glandular above, 2 to 4 feet high, producing in the late 

 fall rosettes of foliage leaves that are sessile at the base of the stem or on short 

 scaly shoots; leaves prevailingly opposite, the blades oblong-lanceolate to narrowly 

 ovate, serrulate, the base round with a short petiole or subsessile, commonly about 

 2 (1 to 3) inches long; racemes very floriferous, leafy, elongate; petals red-purple 

 or paler, deepl}- emarginate, 3 to 5 lines long. 



Along the coast, 10 to 500 feet : San Luis Obispo Co. ; Sonoma Co. June-July. 



Locs. — San Carpoforo, San Luis Obispo Co., Condit; Pitkin Marsh, Vine Hill region, Sonoma 

 Co., M. S. Baker 3199c; Bodega Head, K. Brandegee. 



Var. franciscanum Jepson. Herbage glabrate ; inflorescence densely compact or loose. — Low 

 or moist ground near the coast: Monterey Co. to Del Norte and Siskiyou Cos. North to Wash- 

 ington. Junc-Aug. 



Locs.— Willow Creek, Santa Lucia Mts., PlasTcett ; Pajaro Hills, n. Monterey Co., Chandler 

 414 ; Crystal Springs Lake, San Mateo Co., Elmer 4962 ; Mt. Davidson, San Francisco, Jepson 

 10,591 ; Mt. Tamalpais, Jepson 9510 ; Bodega Bay, M. S. Baher 3513 ; Humboldt Bay, Tracy 2591 ; 

 Pebble Beach, Del Norte Co., Parks 3139; Shackelford Creek, Siskiyou Co., Butler 159. 



Refs. — Epilobium watsonii Barbey; B. & W. Bot. Cal. 1:219 (1876), type loc. near Fort 

 Ross, Sonoma Co.; Jepson, Man. 669 (1925). Var. franciscanum Jepson, Man. 670, fig. 656 

 (1925). E. franciscanum Barbey; B. & W. Bot. Cal. 1:220 (1876), type loc. San Francisco, 

 Bigelow. 



11. E. californicum Ilausskn. California Cottonweed. Stem slender, com- 

 monly simple below, branched above, not colored, 2 to 4 feet high, remotely leafy; 

 herbage glabrous or whitish-pubescent above; leaf -blades lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, denticulate, 1 to 3 inches long, short-petioled or subsessile, passing into 

 the small floral ones; flowers small; petals white, 1 to 1^/2 lines long; capsule slender, 

 nearly glabrous, short-pediceled. 



About springs and along streams, 20 to 5200 feet : coastal Southern California; 

 Coast Ranges; Delta region; Sierra Nevada; White Mts. May-Sept. 



Locs. — S. Cal.: San Diego River Falls, T. Brandegee; Palomar Mt., Esther Hewlett 67; 

 Strawberry VaUey, San Jacinto Mts., Hall 2378; Los Angeles, E. D. Palmer; Santa Cruz Isl., 

 Frida Niedermiiller ; Santa Paula, Ventura Co., Cohb 130. Coast Ranges: Carmel River, near 

 Carmel Mission, Jepson 14,446 ; Stanford, C. F. Baker 3290 ; Mt. Tamalpais, Jepson 14,463 ; 

 Guerneville, Sonoma Co., Condit 224; Howell Mt., Napa Co., Jepson 14,465; Weldon Canon, 

 Vaca Mts., Jepson 14,459 ; Russian River, Davy 4136 ; Knoxville grade to Lower Lake, Jepson 

 14,451; Blue Lakes, Lake Co., Jepson 14,453; Big Horse Mt., n. Lake Co., Jepson 14,452; Ft. 

 Bragg, TV. C. Mathews; near Richardson Grove, South Fork Eel River, Humboldt Co., Tracy 

 5046; Marthi ranch. South Fork Trinity River, Jepson 2017; Klamath River, Humboldt Co., 

 Chandler 1530; Hennessey Road, South Fork Trinity River, Tracy 7704 (flowers larger, 3 lines 

 long) ; Sisson, Siskiyou Co., Jepson 14,450 ; Yreka Creek, Siskiyou Co., Butler 1598. Delta region: 

 Grand Isl., Jepson 14,448; Suisun Marshes, Jepson 14,444. Sierra Nevada: Giant Forest, New- 

 Ion; Markwood Mdw., Fresno Co., Jepson 16,047; Clover Mdw., s. of Timber Knob, Madera Co., 

 Kennedy; Bear Valley, Nevada Co., Jepson 14,445; Jess Valley, Warner Mts., Jepson 7946. 

 White Mts. : Silver Caiion, Jepson 7412. 



Var. occidentale Jepson. Pubescence slightly glandular on the branches. — Mountains and 

 valleys, widely distributed: San Bernardino Mts., Chandler; Three Rivers, Tulare Co., Culbertson 

 4225; Berkeley, H. A. Walker 403; Eureka, Tracy 3075; Meadow Valley, Plumas Co., Jepson 

 10,638. 



