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of a foot and a half when growing among the desert shrubs. 

 Plants growing out in open ground away from bushes are much 

 lower and more diffuse, the woody base less pronounced. The 

 type was collected near Bishop, Inyo county, California, but we 

 now have it from Goldfield, this state. Our Nevada specimens 

 differ from the type only in having the upper surface of the leaf 

 less pubescent. This phase of the species has been described by 

 Brand as P. supcrba, the type collected at Tonopah, not far from 

 Goldfield. 



The following belong to the group of low and prostrate 

 matted perennials whose branches and short crowded leaves are 

 almost concealed by the numerous white or purple tinged flow- 

 ers. They occur at altitudes of 6000 feet and more. 

 Phlox Doug lash Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: j$. 1S38. 



The leaves of this species are smooth or nearly so, sharply 

 pointed. The calyx is sparsely lanate-ciliate, and the flowers 

 have the tube somewhat hairy inside at the base. It is repre- 

 sented by specimens from near Carson, and from Peavine moun- 

 tain just northwest of Reno. 



Phlox caxescens T. & G. Pac. R. R. Rep. 2: 122. p/. 6. 1855. 

 We have specimens from several stations near Reno, an J 

 from Paradise valley, Humboldt county. The species is readily 

 distinguished by the woolly pubescence and the short, rigid, 

 recur ved-spreading leaves. 



PHLOX CONDENSATA (Gray) K. Nelson, Rev. West. N. A. Phlox. 

 13. 1899. 

 This has been found at elevations of 10000 feet and more 

 oh the Clover mountains in the eastern part of the state, and on 

 Mt. Rose near Reno at similar elevations. The leaves are much 

 crowded, hispid ciliate and glandular. The tube of the flower 

 is twice the length of the calyx. 



There are other species in the herbarium from Nevada, but 

 their identity is nol sufficiently enough established to warrant 

 listing them here. 



