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1900; Yosemite Valley, Jcp.son 8185; Crocker's, Mariposa County. Bias- 

 dale, May 21, 1896, "sligliti}' less hairy than Cray's type of Hosackia 

 torreyi." Jepson' 06, Kew Herb. ; Pine Ridge, Fresno County, Hall and 

 Chandler 89, "slightly more hairy than the plant collected by Gray 

 between Clarks and Yosemite Valley and cited as one of his types of 

 Hosackia torreyi." Jepson '06, Kew Herb.; Bearskin Meadow. Otiley 

 1465; Round Meadow, Giant Forest, Jepson 676; North Fork, Kaweah 

 River, Dougherty ]\Ieadow, Dudley 1431 ; Marble Fork, Kaweah River, 

 Giant Forest, K. Brandegec, July 27, 1905 ; Three Rivers, Tulare 

 County, A'. Brandegee in 1905 ; 8outh Fork, Kaweah River, Tulare 

 County, Culbertson 4473 ; near Brown Meadow, southeastern Tulare 

 County, Hall and Babcock 5156; Bishop Creek, Inyo County, Shockley 

 415 ; Little Kern River, Jepson 4907. The following plants, though 

 lying within the range of the sjiecies, resemble the variety torreyi 

 more than they do the species: Swanton, Santa Cruz County, Rich 

 in 1912; Fall Creek, San Bernardino Mountains, Crawford 907 

 (8000 ft. alt.). Lower California: Nachoguero Valley, Mearns 3879. 



Var. cupreus Ottley n. comb. Low much-branched flaccid per- 

 ennials, with a closely branched woody underground stem ; essentially 

 glabrous ; leaflets oblaneeolate, jnucronate, those of the lower leaves 

 mostly cuneate-obovate ; umbels 1 to 3-flowered ; flowers 7 to 8 mm. 

 long. 



Meadows of the southern Sierra Nevada at 8000 ft. altitude or 

 higher. Local. Distribution Map 2. June-August, 



Localities. — North line of Sequoia Park, 8000 ft. alt., Jepson 738 ; 

 open pine woods near Sand IMeadow, Sequoia Park, Jepson 4672 

 (2 dm. high, a transition form between the species and the A'ariety) ; 

 in woods of Dougherty Meadow, North Fork, Kaweah River, Dudley 

 1427; meadow at head of Belknap Creek, Tulare Countv, Hall and 

 Hall 8867; Hockett ]\Ieadow, 8500 ft. alt., Tulare County. Hall and 

 Babcock 5588; Cahoon Meadow, Tulare County, 9000 ft. alt., Dudley 

 1811 (between the species and the variety) ; Oavcus Lake, Inyo County, 

 3600 ft. alt.. Hall and Chandler 7327 (approaches habit of the species; 

 leaflets linear-lanceolate). 



Beferences.- — Lotus oblongifolifr Greene, Pitt., vol. 2, 1890. p. 

 146. Hosackia oblongifolia Benth., PI. Hartw., 1848, p. 305, type loc, 

 "vicinity of ^Monterey," Coidter (locality doubtless erroneous). H. 

 lathy roides Dur. and Hilg., Jour. Acad. Phila., ser. 2, vol. 3, 1854, 

 p. 38, type loc. Fort Miller on the banks of the San Joaquin River, 

 Heermann. H. lathyroides Dur. and Hilg., Pac. R.R. Rep., vol. 5, 

 part 3, 1855, p. 6, pi. 3. Lotus lathyroides Greene, loc. cit. Hosackia 

 oblongifolia var. angiistifnlia Wats.. Bot. Calif., vol. 1, 1876, p. 135. 

 Var. TORREYI Ottley. Hosackia torreyi Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 8, 

 1873, p. 625, type specimens from Clarks to Yosemite Valley. Lotus 

 torreyi Greene, loc cit. Hosackia torreyi var. nevadensis Gray. loc. 

 cit., type loc. near Donner Lake, Torrey. Var. cupreus Ottley. Lotus 

 cupreus Greene, Leaflets Bot. Obs., vol. 1, 1904, p. 74, type loc, 

 Hockett 's IMeadows, at 8600 feet altitude, Baker. Hosackia cuprea 

 Smiley, Lniv. Calif., Publ. Bot., vol. 9, 1921, p. 257. 



