144 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED (localities only). 
CauirorN1A: Butte County; Pacific Grove; San Bernardino Mountains; San Ber- 
nardino County; San Antonio Mountains; Santa Clara County; San Jacinto 
Mountains; San Diego; ‘‘on San Carlos”; Mount Shasta; Bodega Bay, Sonoma 
County; Yosemite; Redding; San Antonio Canyon near Claremont; near Pit 
River Ferry, Shasta County; Coiby, Butte County; Sopago, Eldorado County; 
Chico Meadows, Butte County; Crystal Springs, San Mateo County; Big Meadows, 
Lassen County; Webber Lake; Los Gatos, Santa Clara County; Los Angeles; 
San Mateo County; Monterey; Inyo Mountains, Inyo County; valley of Kaweah 
River, Sierra Nevada; Santa Lucia Mountains; Green Horn Mountains; Kern 
County; Emigrant Gap; Silver Creek; Bolinas Ridge, Marin County; Mount 
Hamilton; southeast of Monte Diablo; Sherwood Valley; Obsolescent Valley, 
San Francisco Valley; Humboldt County; Half Moon Lake; Swartout Canyon, 
San Gabriel Mountains; San Bruno Mountains, San Mateo County. 
Orecon: Willamette Hills; near Ashland, Jackson County. 
Ipano: Florida Mountain. 
Nevapba: Galena Creek, Washoe County. 
6b. Aquilegia formosa paucifiora (Greene). 
Aquilegia pauciflora Greene, Leaflets 1: 76. 1904. 
Aquilegia truncata pauciflora Jepson, Fl. Calif. 517. 1914. 
A subacaulescent plant and more compact than the species; leaves mostly basal and 
tufted; flowers few; blade of petal distinct but short. 
Type LocaLity: Hacketts Meadows, Tulare County, California. 
Ranae: ‘‘High montane in the Sierra Nevada, observed in its extreme form at 
Conness Creek and elsewhere in the Yosemite Park” (Jepson). 
6c. Aquilegia formosa dissecta subsp. nov. 
Stems 60 to 80 cm. high, glabrous, branching and many-flowered; basal leaves on 
long petioles, distinctly triternate; leaflets narrow, deeply cleft, glabrous; flowers 
pale red or yellow; sepals spreading; laminz 6 to 7 mm. long; spurs rather stout, 
straight, exceeding the sepals. 
Type in the U.S. National Herbarium, no. 855674, collected at Mile 16, Meadow 
Valley Wash, Nevada, April 28, 1904, by M. E. Jones. 
Ranae: Known only from the type locality. 
6d. Aquilegia formosa caelifax subsp. nov. PLATE 9, 
Stems 50 to 70 cm. high, puberulent and somewhat viscid, the upper portions quite 
naked; basal leaves triternate; leaflets small, in type almost suborbicular, puberu- 
lent on both surfaces, glutinous beneath; flowers about 4 cm. long, 3 cm. across; 
sepals with a slender claw about 3 mm. long, broadly elliptic, obtuse or acute, 
bright red, reflexed, shorter than the spurs; laminz yellow, about 4 mm. long, trun- 
cate at apex; spurs red, extremely slender for about 10 mm. from apex, about 2 cm. 
long, the knob of nectary large; stamens long-exserted, about 1.7 cm. long; ovaries 
densely pubescent; follicles about 2 cm. long. 
Type in the herbarium of M. E. Jones, collected at Panaca, Nevada, September 5, 
1912, by M. E. Jones. Mr. Jones’s specimen from Comet Peak, Pioche, August 30, 
1912, and Heller’s no. 11040 from Lee Canyon, Charleston Mountains, though not 
exactly similar to the type, are referred here. The name is given because of a fancied 
resemblance to a shooting star. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 9.—A quilegia formosa caelifaz Payson. From the type specimen. About one- 
half natural size. 
