250 polemoniace^;. 



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 dieholomous; flowers corymbose-capitate. 



■i-Corolla salverform, the slender lube long-exserted. 



6. L. androsaceus (Benth.), Greene. Stoulish, 6—15 in. high: 

 lowest leaves 3-, uppermost 5 — 7-parted, the divisions oblaneeolate, 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 3 — 6 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. rosacens, Greene. Commonly branching from the base and 

 the branches decumbent, 3—5 in. high, stoutish and with short inter- 

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

 lowest leaves obovate-spalulale, 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. Mcolor (Nutt.), Greene. Very near the last, but dwarf (2—3 

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

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

 only % — S lines broad. — Low hills, and on grassy plains along the Mt. 

 Diablo Bange and far northward. April, May. 



11. L. ciliatus (Benth.), Greene. Rigid, strict, x /i—\ 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. 



