POLEMONIA.CE.JS. 



13. G. pubescens H. & A. Erect, usually branching above. 8 to 

 18 in. high, puberulent; leaves pinnately divided with "the division- 

 laciniately lobed; terminal portion of the leaf less deeply divided or 

 merely laciniate-toothed, so that the rachis appears as if spatulate- 

 dilated; 3 calyx-teeth small and entire, 2 longer and toothed; corolla 

 deep blue, 7 or 8 lines long, the throat funnel form; stamens exserted; 

 capsule 1-celled, 4-valved as in G. cotuhefolia; cotyledons of the 

 embryo parted into 3 lobes, the divisions so deep as to give the appear- 

 ance of 6 cotyledons. 



Coast Ranges (Calistoga, Vacaville, etc.); very common in the 

 Sierra Foothills. Herbage with a strong hircine odor acc. to Greene. 



14. G. squarrosa H. & A. Skuxkweed. Erect and simple or 

 with many branches from the base, 8 to 14 in. high, pubescent and 

 noxiously glandular; leaves once or twice pinnatifid, the segments 

 lanceolate and often crowded; calyx 6 lines long, very scarious below, 

 the teeth lanceolate and pungent; corolla blue, its tube little or 

 scarcely at all exceeding the teeth; stamens included; seeds many, 

 small; embryo thick. 



Common in the Bay Region (Monterey Co., San Francisco, Oak- 

 land, Berkeley, Napa Valley, etc.), ranging northward to Oregon. 

 Not seen by us in the inner Coast Kanges or Sierra Nevada. 



15. G. mellita Greene. Diffusely branching from the base. 3 to 

 6 in. high, the stems very slender, brownish, glandular-puberulent 

 with somewhat whitish hairs; leaves pinnately parted into linear- 

 subulate entire or toothed segments; bracts dilated and laciniately 

 toothed or cleft into narrow divisions, or the middle division ovate, 

 abruptly cuspidate and often entire; heads small, £ in. broad or less; 

 calyx unequally 5-toothed; corolla minute, not exceeding the calyx, 

 very pale blue; stamens not exserted. 



Seemingly very local plant in the region immediately north and 

 south of the Bay; Belmont; Calistoga; Vacaville. Honey-scented 

 acc. to Greene. 



Navarretia parvula Greene from Crystal Springs, San Mateo 

 Co., has a corolla about 4 lines long with the 2 posterior stamens 

 included and the 3 anterior exserted. 



16. G. heterodoxa Greene. Stems very slender, erect, branch- 

 ing, -lightly pubescent, 5 to 11 in. high; internodes long; lower 

 leaves with narrowly linear rachis and many pinnate short-subulate 

 segments; uppermost leaves lanceolate and entire except at the lacini- 

 ately cleft base; bracts lanceolate to broadly ovate, laciniate-toothed 

 towards the base; calyx-segments entire, nearly equal; corolla blue, 

 with exserted declined stamens; capsule 8 to 14-seeded, the seeds 

 small. 



Coast Range hills: Napa and Sonoma Cos. to Santa Clara Co. 

 June. Subspecies of the next. Mephitic-scented acc. to Greene. 

 The valves of the capsule show a tendency to dehisce from the base. 



17. G. atractyloides H. & A. Stems stoutish, low and spread- 

 ing or procumbent, somewhat purplish and villous-pubescent, 2 or 3 



