John Day Valley Woodbeauty

Drymocallis rhomboidea Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia
Univ. 2 : 203. 1898.
Potentilla rhomboidea Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 23: 248. 1896.
Stem low and slender, about 2 dm. high, simple, about 3-leaved, not striate, nearly glabrous, or glandular above with very short hairs ; stipules small, 2-4 mm. long, ovate, subentire ; basal leaves many, short-petioled ; leaflets about 7, smooth or beset with a few scattered hairs, rhombic-ovate, mostly acute, serrate with acute teeth, the largest leaflets 1.5 cm., seldom 2 cm. long; stem-leaves about 3, similar, the lowest with about 5 leaflets, short-petioled, the other two generally 3-foliolate and subsessile ; flowers few in open cymes, about 1 cm. in diameter ; hypanthium glandular with very short hairs, sometimes also with a few long ones; sepals 4-5 mm. long in flower or about 8 mm. in fruit; bractlets linear-oblong, obtuse or acutish, half the length of the broadly ovate, slightly mucronate sepals ; petals yellow, obovate, a little exceeding the sepals ; stamens 15-20 ; styles nearly basal, filiform, long and slender, in fruit about twice as long as the smooth achene.
Type locality : Deer Creek Mountains, Oregon.
Distribution : Mountains of Oregon and Washington to western Montana.

Drymocallis viscida Parish, Bot. Gaz. 38 : 460. 1904
c Drymocallis refiexa Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia Univ. 2: 203, in part. 1898.
Stems slender, 3-7 dm. high, usually rather densely viscid-villous with long hairs, usually tinged with purple ; stipules semi-ovate, more or less toothed ; basal leaves numerous, about 1 dm. long; petioles and rachis viscidvillous ; leaflets usually 7,1-5 cm. long; the terminal obovate with a cuneate base, the rest obovate to orbicular, rather densely pubescent and viscid on both sides, usually doubly serrate with ovate teeth ; cymes rather condensed, few-flowered ; hypanthium densely viscid-pubescent, in fruit 6-7 mm. broad ; bractlets narrowly lanceolate, 2 mm. long ; sepals elliptic-ovate, mucronate, about 5 mm. long ; petals yellow, obovate, a little shorter than the sepals, spreading in anthesis ; stamens about 20 ; filaments very short ; pistils many ; styles fusiform.
Type locality: Snow Canon, San Bernardino Mountains, California.
Distribution : In the pine belt of the mountains of southern California and the southern part of Sierra Nevada.

Drymocallis wrangelliana (Fisch. & Ave-Lall.) Rydb. Mem. Dep
Bot. Columbia Univ. 2 : 201. 1898.
Potentilla Wrangelliana Fisch. & Av^-Lall. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 7 : 54. 1840.
Stem tall, 4-8 dm. high, striate, leafy, usually dichotomously branched, densely glandularor viscidvillous with long hairs ; lower stipules ovate-lanceolate, the upper ovate, small, 3-10 mm. long, usually entire ; basal leaves with long-hairy petioles 2-10 cm. long, pinnate ; leaflets 7-9, obovate or nearly orbicular, the upper often 5-6 cm. long, all more or less doubly serrate with ovate-mucronate teeth, sparingly hairy on both sides ; stem-leaves short-petioled and with fewer leaflets, which, however, are not much reduced in size, the upper ones only trifoliolate and often opposite ; cyme open, usually dichotomously branched with a short-pedicelled or subsessile flower in the angle ; pedicels always short, or scarcely any ; hypanthium glandular-hirsute, enlarged in fruit, 8-9 mm. broad; bractlets linear-oblong, acute, 4-5 mm. long, shorter than the sepals; sepals about 5-6 mm. long in flower and 8-10 mm. in fruit, oval, abruptly contracted into a mucronate tip, more reticulateveiny and thinner than in D. glandulosa; petals ochroleucous, broadly oval, about the length of the calyx; stamens about 25 ; pistils many ; styles fusiform.
Type locality : Russian Settlement, California.
Distribution : Coast ranges of California, mostly in the chapparal.