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7. AQUILEGIA 



Flowers pendulous at anthesis, red, with sometimes yellow centers. 



Blades of the petals much reduced or obsolete 1. A. truncata 



Blades of the petals obvious {Vi-V-i inch long) 2. A. formosa 



Flowers erect, sulphur-yellow (occasionally white or pinkish) ....3. A. pubescens 



1. Aquilegia truncata var. pauciflora Jepson, Fl. Calif., vol. 1, 



p. 517. 1914. 



A. pauciflora Greene, Leaflets, 176. 1904. 



Type looality. — Ilockett's meadows," Tulare County. 



Range. — Sierra Nevada. 



Zone. — Canadian, rising locally into the Hudsonian. 



Specimens eoc^amined. — PjTamid Peak, Tahoe, 9,700 feet. Smiley 

 122 ; Castle Peak, 8,400 feet, Smiley 473 ; Mt. Rose, 9,500 feet. Heller 

 10336 ; near summit of Mt. Ralston, Tahoe, 9,100 feet. Hall and Chand- 

 ler 4681; Lake Tenaya, Yosemite, Brewer 1694; Hockett's meadows, 

 Tulare County, Culbertson (B 4460) ; Silver Lake, Amador County, 

 7,200 feet, E. Mulliken 136; Porcupine Flat, Yosemite, 8,000 feet, 

 H. M. Evans, July, 1901. 



2. Aquilegia formosa Fisch., in DC, Prodr., vol. 1, p. 50. 1824. 



A. columhiana Rydb., Bull. Torr, Bot. Club, vol. 29, p. 145. 1902. 



Type locality. — ' ' In Kamchatka. ' ' 



Range. — Northwest coast from the Aleutian Islands to California 

 and Utah. 



Zone. — Transition and Canadian, or locally into the Hudsonian. 



Specimen examined. — Mono Pass, 10,000 feet, R. A. Ware 2736c. 



A. truncata and A. formosa constitute a pair of closely allied 

 species with so many characters alike, the reduction of the petals in 

 A. truncata differing considerably, that Jones"^ has proposed to 

 regard the first named species as a variety of A. formosa. 



8. Aquilegia pubescens Coville, Contr. Nat. Herb., vol. 4, p. 56. 

 1893. 



Type locality. — "At an altitude of about 3,000 meters in the Sierra 

 Nevada, on a mountain-side north of the White Chief Mine, near Min- 

 eral King, Tulare County, California." 



Range. — Central and southern Sierra Nevada. 



Zone. — ^Arctic-alpine. 



Specimens examined. — Blood}- Canon, ]\Iono Count}', Chesnut and 

 Drew, July 20, 1889; Mt. Dana, Congdon, August 10, 1898; Mono 

 Pass, Congdon, August 16, 1894; Mt. Goddard, Yosemite, 12,000 feet. 

 Hall and Chandler 671; Mt. Dana, 10,000 feet, Muir in 1873; Mono 



