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or two to three in a terminal cluster, surpassed by larger clusters 

 on elongated peduncles; calyx and especially the bracts glandular 

 and with some white ciliate hairs; calyx six lines long with a 

 short tube and long acerose lobes with hyaline margins_part way 

 up, often reciirved; flowers not seen. 



Valleys of the Sierra Nevada Mts. in the region of Lake 

 Tahoe and in the State of Nevada. See Greene's description, 

 Erythea, iii. 24. 



PHLOX LINN. 



Woody-stemmed perennials of high altitudes, leaves opposite, 

 entire; corollas strictly salverform. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



A. More or less matted; leaves short and crowded. 



a. Very densely caespitose and lanate-caneseent; leaves subulate. 



1. P. canescens. 



fo. Less densely caespitose and less canescent; leaves ovate to 

 lanceolate. 2. P. Covillei. 



c. Loosely, or somewhat densely tufted, not canescent; leaves 



acerose; calyx sinuses not replicate. 3. P. Douglasii. 



d. Loosely tufted; calyx sinuses replicate. 4. P. austromontuna 



B. Not matted; leaves long, not crowded. 



a. Branches ascending; leaves broad-lanceolate to ovate. 



5. P. adsurgens. 



1). Branches nearly erect; leaves narrow-lanceolate, not exceeding 

 four lines. 6. P. dolicantha. 



c. Erect; leaves linear, one to two lines wide. 7. P. longifolia. 



d. Erect, glandular-viscid above ; leaves narrow -oblong, tapering 



at both ends. 8. P. occidentale. 



e. Erect, canescent; leaves narrow -lanceolate to linear, margins 



cartilaginous. 9. P. Stansburyi. 



1. Phlox canescens Torr. and Gray. 



Perennial, growing in very densely appressed mats, lanate- 

 caneseent, foliage bluish-gray; leaves but two to three lines long, 

 subulate, pungent; corolla white, "tube yellow" (Torrey), tube 

 twice or thrice the length of the calyx, la'nate at the base, lobes 

 broadly obovate, style not half as long as the tube; capsule one- 

 seeded. 



Warner Mts., 8000 feet, Mrs. C. C. Bruce. Rocky flat sage- 

 bush land, Modoc Co., M. S. Baker. 



