1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 255 



9. Lupinus albicaulis Dougl. in Hook., Fl. Bor. Am., vol. 1, p. 165. 



1830. 

 L. apertus Heller, Mulil., vol. 8, p. 103. 1912. 



Type locality. — "About Fort Vancouver on the Columbia." 



Range.^Psiciiic Coast from Washington to southern Sierra 

 Nevada. 



Zmie. — Transition and Canadian. 



Specime^is examined. — Summit, Placer County, 7,000 feet. Heller 

 6978 ; Gold Lake, Sierra County, 6,400 feet. Hall and Babcock 4508 ; 

 Silver Lake, Amador County, 8,000 feet, Hansen 744; Crescent Lake, 

 Mariposa County, Congdon, August 10, 1890; stony slopes along 

 Soda Creek, Tulare County, 8-9,000 feet, Purpus 5156 ; Mineral King, 

 Tulare County, 7,800 feet, Coville and Funston 1478. 



Our Sierran form of this species, becoming somewhat dwarfed 

 in the higher mountains {= L. apertus), appears to connect with the 

 typical north coast form in Oregon and Washington by a series of 

 intergrades, one of which was described hx Drew as L. sylvestris (Bull. 

 Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 16, p. 150. 1889). 



10. Lupinus meionanthus Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 6, p. 522. 



1866. 



L. montigenus Heller, Muhl., vol. 6, p. 109. 1910. 



Type locality. — "Nevada, near Carson City." 



j^(j,j^e._Central Sierra from Lake Tahoe to the Yosemite region. 



Zone. — Canadian, rising into the Hudsonian. 



Specimens examined.— Summit, Placer County, Kellogg; canon 

 of Red Clover Creek, Plumas County, 5,000 feet. Hall and Babcock 

 4449; Castle Peak near the highest point, 9,000 feet, Heller 7084; 

 mountain ridges from Mt. Stanford to Truckee Knob, 8,500 feet, C. F. 

 Sonne 6; near Donner Lake, on sunny slopes, E. L. Greene 400; Mt. 

 Rose, 10,000 feet, Heller 9880; ridge between Desolation Valley and 

 Heather Lake, Tahoe, 8,700 feet. Smiley 183 ; gravelly slopes north 

 of Suzy Lake, Tahoe, Smiley 173 ; Pyramid Peak, 9,400 feet. Hall and 

 Chandler 4737; mountains above Coldstream, Sierra County, 7,500 

 feet, Sonne, August 7, 1887; head of Fall Creek, Ormsby County, 

 Nevada, 2,460 m.. Baker 1325; Carson Spur, Alpine County, 8,500 

 feet, Hansen 743 ; Rubicon Peak, Eldorado County, 8,200 feet, Smiley 

 402 ; summits and slopes east of the Minarets, Mariposa County, Cong- 

 don, August 18, 1899. 



