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on the mountain slope east of Keating Springs; in the Vegas Wash; in Johnson 

 Canon and the wash leading from it; in Surprise Canon, Panamint Mountains; and 

 in a canon of the Inyo Mountains, near Swansea. Dr. Merriam reported it from the 

 Muddy Mountains, Nevada. 



Arnica chamissonis Less. Linmea, vi, 238 (1831). Type locality, " in Unalaschea." 

 Near Mineral King, Sierra Nevada (No. 1408). 



Arnica foliosa iucana Gray, Bot. Cal. i. 416 (1876). Typo locality Californian. 

 Near Whitney Meadows, Sierra Nevada (No. 1638). 



Raillardella argentea Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. vi. 550 (1865), under RailJardia; 

 Gray, Bot. Cal. i. 417 (1876). Typo localities, "Sonora Pass 8,000—10,000 feet, and 

 Ebbett's Pass, at about the same altitude," hoth in the Sierra Nevada, California. 



Near Mineral King (No. 1544). 



Raillardella scaposa eiseni Gray, Syn. Fl. i. pt. ii. 380 (1884). Type locality, 

 "mountains of King's River, Fresno Co.," California. 

 Witli the preceding (No. 1545). 



Senecio aureus L. Sp. PL ii. 870 (1753). Type locality, "in Virginia, Canada." 

 Near Whitney Meadows (No. 1708). 



Senecio canus Hook. FL Bor. Amer. i. 333 (1834). Type locality, "banks of the 

 Saskatchewan." 



Near Whitney Meadows (No. 1647). Our specimens, like some others from the 

 high Sierra Nevada of California, differ from the typo form in their broader, always 

 entire leaves more abruptly contracted :it the base, and in their stoloniferous instead 

 of tufted habit. 



Senecio douglasii DC. Prodr. vi. 429 (1837). Type locality, "in California." 



The original specimens were collected by Douglas. 



Observed between Martin's and Crowder's ranches on the south slope of Cajon Pass 

 (No. 122) ; on the mountain slope west of Lone Willow Tanks; in a canon of the 

 Funeral Mountains west of Amargosa; between Cottonwood Springs and Vegas Val- 

 ley; in Surprise and Willow Creek canons, Panamint Mountains; in a canon of the 

 Inyo Mountains, near Swansea; between Lone Pine and Olancha; on both slopes of 

 Walker Pass; and along the road between Kernville and Caliente. The plant ap- 

 pears to belong to the upper part of the Lower Sonoran zone, transgressing to some 

 extent upon the Upper Sonoran. 



Senecio eurycephalus Torr. & Gr. in Gray, PL Fendl. 109 (1849). Typo locality, 

 "California." 

 Near Tehachapi (No. 1122). 



Senecio fremontii occidentalis Gray, -Bot. Cal. i. 618 (1876). Typo locality, 

 "Sierra Nevada, on Mount Whitney at 12,000 feet, and S. Fork of Kern River down 

 to 9,800 feet." 



Near Whitney Meadows (No. 1618). 



Senecio lugens Richards. Bot. App. 748 (1823). Type locality, "at Bloody Fall, 

 where the Esquimaux were destroyed by the Northern Indians that accompanied 

 Hearne, whence the specific name." Bloody Fall is on the Coppermine River a few 

 miles above its mouth, and within the Arctic Circle. 



In the high Sierra Nevada (Nos. 1491, 1651). No. 1651 has smaller heads than No. 

 1491, with purple-tipped involucral bracts and slenderer, smoother, serrate leaves. 

 It is the same as No. 5063, Bolander, 1866, which came from an altitude of 9,700 feet 

 in the Sierra Nevada, at the headwaters of Tuolumne River, and which Eaton 1 refer- 



>Bot. King Surv. 188 (1871). 





