250 POLEMONIACE2E. 



exserted, the obconic dark purple throat about as long as the rotate- 

 spreading purplish lobes: seeds 2 in each cell. At Oak Hill, four miles 

 south of San Jose, Rattan. 



* * Stem not dicholomous; flowers corymbose-capitate. 

 H Corolla salverform, the slender tube long-exserted. 



6. L. androsaceus (Benth.), Greene. Stoutish, 615 in. high: 

 lowest leaves 3-, uppermost 5 7-parted, the divisions oblanceolate, those 

 of the floral subulate-lanceolate, all acute, rather strongly hispid-ciliate: 

 corolla more than 1 in. long, the slender purple tube 9 10 lines, the 

 short turbinate throat about a line long, very dark purple, "with a yellow 

 border, the broad rounded or somewhat cuspidate segments lilac-purple 

 (occasionally white), 3 4 lines long; style and filaments little surpassing 

 the throat of the corolla. Abundant on half shaded hillsides. May. 



7. L. parviflorus (Benth.), Greene. Much more slender than the 

 last, and scarcely as tall; leaves with narrow segments: tube of corolla 

 very slender, 9 10 lines long; throat yellow; segments oval, 2 3 lines 

 long, mostly pale yellow or white, tinged with red or brown on the 

 outside: style and filaments half or more than half as long as the 

 corolla-limb. Plentiful in open grassy lands. April, May. 



8. L. acicnlaris, Greene. Only 36 in. high, very slender, more 

 rigid and less pubescent than the last; leaf-segments linear-acerose: 

 corolla golden yellow throughout, the very slenderly filiform tube about 

 thrice the length of the limb: stamens two-thirds the length of the 

 obovate-lanceolate lobes; style short. With the last but less common. 



9. L rosaceus, Greene. Commonly branching from the base and 

 the branches decumbent, 35 in. high, stoutish and with short inter- 

 nodes, these 5 7, not twice the length of the leaves; segments of the 

 lowest leaves obovate-spatulale, of the upper spatulate-linear, those of the 

 floral bracts subulate, pungently acute, spinulose-serrulate above the 

 middle, more softly ciliate toward the base: corolla 1 in. long; tube and 

 limb rose-red, the ample throat orange. Only on sandy hills at San 

 Francisco and southward. May. June. 



10. L. bicolor (Nutt.), Greene. Very near the last, but dwarf (23 

 in. high); flowers rose-purple, the elongated corolla-tube % % inch 

 long and less slender than in L. parviflorus but the limb much smaller, 

 on ly 23 lines broad. Low hills, and on grassy plains along the Mt. 

 Diablo Range and far northward. April, May. 



11. L. ciliatns (Benth.), Greene. Rigid, strict, y 2 1 ft. high, sca- 

 brous-pubescent: internodes long: leaves with 5 9 linear rigidly ciliate 

 segments: corolla rose-color, very small and slender, little longer than 

 the floral leaves, the rotate limb only 2 lines broad. Range of the last, 

 but at greater elevations in the hills; usually under trees. May. 



