vor,. 2] Milliken. Californian Polemoniaceae. 1 



calyx, lobes obovate, slightly crenate; stamens inserted low in the 

 tube, very pubescent, equalling or exceeding the corolla, declined; 

 style much exserted; "ovules ten in each cell." (Jepson.) 



Lake Tahoe, W. C. Blasdale. Western slope of Washoe Mts., 

 Nevada Co., J. B. Davy. Sierra Nevada Mts., H. N.-Bokmder. 

 Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., H. M. Hall. Mendocino Co., 

 Dr. A. Kellogg. Mt. Lassen, Plumas Co., Mrs. C. C. Bruce. 

 Sissons, Shasta Co. 



Polemonium coeruleum L. is a European plant and Gray 

 considers the American plant to be the same and calls it P. coeru- 

 leum. (Syn. Fl. II, 151) . Greene thinks the native plants of the 

 Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and even of 

 the Atlantic states, will be found to be distinct and names them 

 P. occidentale. (Pitt. II, 75.) 



3. Polemonium eximium Greene. P. confertmn Gray. 



Perennial, a span high or less; stems few from a tufted root- 

 stock, glandular-pubescent and viscid, "musky fragrant" (Gray) ; 

 leaves mostly radical, with dilated, sheathing petioles which are 

 scarious, two to four inches long, cauline few and shorter, pinnae 

 many, one to three lines long, three- parted and near together, 

 leaves subtending the inflorescence one-half inch long with few 

 spatulate pinnae entire or with one lobe; inflorescence large for 

 the plant, a close corymb, or headlike, erect; calyx four lines 

 long, funnelform to almost cylindrical, lobes spatulate, covered 

 with quite long glandular hairs; corolla little more than twice 

 the calyx, tube longer than the limb, lobes roundish-obovate, 

 deep blue to purple; stamens inserted half way up the tube, 

 included, slightly pubescent at the base; style with the large 

 three-lobed stigma shorter than the stamens; "ovules about three 

 in each cell" (Gray). 



This California species of Greene differs from P. coufertum of 

 the Rocky Mountains in having a perfectly erect inflorescence 

 instead of a slightly declined one, and in having shorter corollas. 



Mt. Conness, Tuolumne Co., type locality. Mt. Lyall, 

 Mono Co. Harrison's Pass, King's River, Fresno Co. Mt. 

 Dana, Mono Co., F. P. McLean, 12,000 feet, and at Summit 

 13,050 feet, H. M. Hall and E. B. Babcock. Mt. Goddard, 



