1923] Ottleij: A Revision of the Calif ornian Species of Lotus 235 



Localities. — Dietz Station near Black Butte, Siskiyou County, 

 Heller 11711 ; Upton, Siskij'ou County, Jepson; Lassen Peak, Plumas 

 County, Austin 460 ; grade between Genessee Valley and Summit, 

 Plumas County, Heller and Kennedy 8865 ; Butte Meadows, Butte 

 County, Heller 12828; Bear Valley, Nevada County, Jepson, July, 

 1898 ; Boca, Curran in 1885 ; Summit — Soda Springs, Kennedy and 

 Doten 249 ; south of Donner Lake, Heller 6950 ; meadow along Truckee 

 Kiver, Sonne 64 ; about Lake Tahoe, Geo. B. Grant 6980 ; Emerald 

 Bay, El Dorado County, Ottley 1188; Cascade Lake, Ottley 1195; 

 near Myers, Ottley 959, 976; Wiley's, Amador County, K. Brandegee, 

 July 1886; Lake Merced, Merced River, Jepson 3196 (erect, 15 cm. 

 high, with many branches); Calaveras Big Trees, Dudley in 1906; 

 Kenned}' Meadow, Tuolumne County, A. L. Grant 916; Crocker's, 

 Mariposa County, Blasdale, May 22, 1895; Camp Awahnee, Yosemite 

 Valley, Hall 9150; Alder Creek Trail, Yosemite Park, Jepson 4322; 

 Hazel Green to Big Meadows, Coulterville trail to Yosemite. Jepson, 

 July 6, 1896; Pine Ridge, Fresno County, Hall and Chandler 174: 

 Kings River Caiion, Jepson, 774 ; Kings River Canon, Ottley 1492 ; 

 Granite Creek, Fresno County, Coville and Funston 1838 ; Old Colony 

 Mill, K. Brandegee, July 27, 1905 ; North Fork, Kaweah River, Dudley 

 1400; South Fork, Kaweah River, CuTbertson 4514; head of Kern 

 River, Soda Creek, Dudley 1959 ; Kern River, Tulare County, Dudley 

 667; Middle Tule River, Purpus in 1885; Cannell Meadows, Tulare 

 County, Hall and Bahcock 5123 ; Greenhorn Range, Kern County, 

 Hall and Bahcock 5061 (not typical, many of the leaves over 2 cm. 

 long, peduncles long as in the species) ; Eaton Caiion, San Gabriel 

 Mountains, Ottley 540 ; Strawberry Valley, San Jacinto Mountains, 

 Jepson 2287, 2288 ; vicinity of Deer Springs, San Jacinto Mountains, 

 Hall 2337 ; between Julian and Cuyamaca, San Diego County, Ahrams 

 3963. In the following plants the pubescence suggests that of L. 

 davidsonii, but the flowers resemble those of the variety under con- 

 sideration : San Jacinto River Caiion, growing in the river sand. Street 

 and Durant, May 12, 1918; Cuyamaca, T. S. Brandegee, July 7, 1894; 

 Cuyamaca Peak (alt. 4000 ft.), Reed, June 29, 1897; Laguna, San 

 Diego County, Cleveland 408, July 6, 1885 ; Laguna, Mearns 3524. 



Var. congestus Ottley n. nom. Branches shorter than in the species, 

 15 to 20 cm. long ; internodes short ; umbels dense and confined to the 

 ends of the branches ; villous pubescence more marked ; leaflets 

 elliptical, acute at both ends. — Appearing in some of the northwestern 

 counties of the state, in the Sonoran. Distribution Map 9. May-July. 

 Specimen from Crook County, Oregon, Ferris and Duthie 565, tends 

 toward this variety in general aspect. 



Localities. — Tunis Mill, Lake County, T. S. Brandegee; Snow 

 Mountain, Lake County, T. S. Brandegee, June 24; Mt. Sanhedrin, 

 Lake County, Hall 9523; Mt. Sanhedrin, Heller 5916; mountain 

 slopes along road between Three Creeks and mouth of Willow Creek, 

 Humboldt County, Tracy 3358 ; Three Creeks to Willow Creek, Jepson 

 1979 {Lotus incanus Dougl. according to Jepson '06, Kew Herb.) 

 northwest slope of Buck Mountain, Humboldt County, Tracy 2913 

 Pilot Ridge, Humboldt County, Chesnut and Drew, July 19, 1888 

 a duplicate (does not have the umbels dense or congested at the ends 



