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2. Phlox Covillei Nelson. 



Perennial, caespitose-depressed, grayish with caneseent pubes- 

 cence; leaves ovate to broad-lanceolate, margins cartilaginous, 

 reflexed, central portion thickened with prominent grooves on 

 each side; calyx glandular-pubescent, lobes thick and broad, like 

 the leaves; corolla white, more than twice the calyx. 



Black Canon, White Mts., Mono Co., Coville and Funston. 

 High Sierra Nevada Mts., H. M. Hall (?). 



3. Phlox Douglasii Hook. 



Loosely or densely tufted perennial, forming mats, leaves 

 crowded on the stems, rigid, acerose, slightly pubescent or gla- 

 brous; flowers scattered on short pedicels or subsessile, usually 

 solitary 011 the annual shoots; calyx without salient angles; 

 corolla tube usually exceeding the the calyx lobes, three to four 

 lines long, obovate, various shades of purple, lilac and white on 

 the same plant. 



Common at high altitudes throughout the Sierra Nevada Mts. 

 Trinity Summit, Humboldt Co., W. C. Blasdale. Yosernite 

 Valley, Mariposa Co., W. Brown. San Antonio Mts., Southern 

 California, H. M. Hall. 



4. Phlox austromontana Coville. 



Near P. Douglasii but less matted, leaves usually less crowded 

 and longer, salient angles to the calyx between the ribs, calyx 

 conspicuously pubescent; two or more flowers on the annual 

 shoots. 



Head of Davis Creek, Modoc Co., Mrs. C. C. Bruce. Trinity 

 Summit, Humblodt Co., W. L. Jepson. San Bernardino Mts., 



5. B. Parish. San Jacinto Mts., Riverside Co., H. M. Hall. 

 (Plate 11.) 



5. Phlox adsurgens Torr. 



Slender perennial, 'with suffrutescent base lying more or less 

 on the ground, with several ascending branches which are mainly 

 herbaceous, glabrous, except the inflorescence which is minutely 

 glandular; leaves opposite, an inch long or less, broad-lanceolate 

 to ovate, not fascicled, shorter than the internodes; flowers 



