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Var. puberula E. Nelson. Densely glandular-pubescent on 

 the pedicels; leaves arid flowers smaller than in the species. 



Dixey Mts., Lassen Co., M. S. Baker and F. Nutting, Cali- 

 fornia Academy of Sciences. 



8. Phlox occidentale Durand. 



Perennial, a span or two high, suffrutescent at the base, 

 glandular-pubescent and somewhat viscid above, branches 

 ascending or erect; leaves one and one-half inches long or less, 

 not crowded, but exceeding the internodes, narrow-oblong, 

 tapering at both ends, some alternate above, rarely fascicled in 

 the axils; flowers solitary or in groups of two or three; calyx 

 four lines long, hyaline portion slightly replicate, lobes subulate, 

 half the tube, erect; corolla tube exceeding the calyx, but hardly 

 twice its length, lobes four lines long, obcordate," white to rose; 

 ovules solitary in each cell" (Nelson). 



Near Kenyon, Fresno Co., H. M. Hall and H. P. Chandler. 

 Fresno Co., Alice Eastwood, G. Eisen. Amador Co., Mrs. 

 K. Brandegee. El Dorado Co., G. P. Rixford. Plumas Co., 

 F. McNaught. Siskiyou Co., H. E. Brown, Miss Cummings. 

 This is the California species, resembling closely P. speciosa of 

 the Rocky Mountains and of the State of Washington. 



9. Phlox Stansburyi Heller. P. speciosa var. Stansburyi Torr. 



P. longifolia var. Stansburyi Gray. 



Perennial, about one span high, stems many, leafy, the whole 

 plant canescent, branches glandular above; leaves narrow- lan- 

 ceolate to linear, margins slightly cartilaginous, midrib promi- 

 nent; inflorescence of few-flowered, bracted clusters; hyaline 

 spaces of the calyx markedly replicate; corolla tube twice the 

 calyx, lobes three lines long, obovate. 



Willow Creek, Panamint Mts., Coville and Funston. 



