422 PHANEROGAMOUS PLANTS. 



Hab. On the Spipen River, Washington Territory. — Plant about a 

 foot high, branching from the shrubby base. Leaves narrowly lance- 

 olate, smoothish when old, the margin thickened. Flowers about as 

 large as in P. subulata. Style shorter than the stigmas. The Var. 

 Sabini: between the Cascade Mountains and the Upper Columbia; 

 also near Fort Okanagan, Washington Territory. — A shrubby species, 

 seldom more than a foot high, often prostrate. Leaves linear-subulate, 

 pungent, 1 to 2 \ inches long, and 1 or 2 lines wide, more or less 

 pubescent, the axils naked and fasciculate. Flowers in small, loose, 

 terminal cymes. Calyx usually about half as long as the tube of the 

 corolla; the teeth narrowly lanceolate, with a long subulate point. 

 Corolla three-fourths of an inch long, the lobes entire or emarginate. 

 Style long and slender. Ovules solitary in each cell of the ovary. It 

 is not possible to determine, without an examination of the original 

 specimens of Pursh, whether this is his P. speciosa, but it agrees suf- 

 ficiently well with his description, and we have it also from the region 

 where those specimens were collected by Lewis. The variety elatior 

 of Hooker, of which we have specimens named by that distinguished 

 botanist, differs in its very short style and elongated stigmas. We 

 have it also from the hills of the Upper Sacramento, where it was 

 collected by Fremont in 1846. P. speciosa, of Bentham, in DC. Prodr., 

 differs in the cells of the ovary being binovulate. 



2. Phlox Douglasii, Hook. 



Phlox Douglasii, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2, p. 73, t. 158; Benth. in DC. Prodr. 9, 

 p. 306. 



Hab. Base of the Cascade Mountains, on the eastern side. — Bather 

 more densely cespitose, and the leaves shorter than in Hooker's figure, 

 but wholly like specimens of a Phlox collected by Fremont in Utah, 

 and named P Douglasii by Bentham. 



3. Phlox canescens, Torr. & Gray. 



Phlox canescens, Torr. & Gray in Pacif. R. Road Expl. 2, p. 122, t. 6. 

 P. Hoodii, Torr. in Stansb. Rep. p. 324. 



Hab. Cascade Mountains of Washington Territory ; eastern side. 



