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38. HYPERICACEAE (St. John 's-wort Family) 

 1. HYPERICUM 



1. Hypericum anagalloides C. and S., Linnaea, vol. 3, p. 127. 



1828. 



H. anagalloidcs var. pumQum R. Keller, Bull. Herb. Boissier II, vol. 8, 

 p. 187. 1908. 



Type locality. — "Ad portum St. Francisci Califomiae." 



Range. — Pacific Coast from British Columbia to California and 

 east to Montana. 



Zo^ie. — Transition to Hudsonian, in wet meadows. 



Specimens examined. — Glen Alpine, Tahoe, McGregor 19 ; Suzy 

 Lake, Tahoe, 7,600 feet, Smiley 202 ; near Snow Flat, Yosemite, 8,700 

 feet, H. M. Evans, July, 1901 ; Elizabeth Lake meadow, above 

 Tuolumne meadows, 9,800 feet, Smiley 801 ; Tuolumne meadows, moist 

 ground by the river, 8,600 feet, R. A. Ware 2629c. 



39. VIOLACEAE (Violet Family) 



1. VIOLA 



Plants stemless, the leaves and scapes arising from horizontal rootstocks; nearly 

 glabrous dwarf of wet meadows with small white flowers, the petals very 



thin and translucent 1. V. Macloskejri 



Plants with erect leafy stems. 



Puberulent or nearly glabrous; peduncles usually exceeding the leaves; 



flowers violet-purple or white 2. V. adunca 



Leaves and stems conspicuously pubescent; peduncles little, if at all, exceed- 

 ing the leaves. 

 Leaves coarsely toothed or some entire, usually some with purple veins; 

 flowers light yellow or sometimes ochre-colored tinged wath purple; 



capsule pubescent 3. V. purpurea 



Leaves entire or merely repandly undulate, densely canescent below, green 

 veined; flowers bright yellow; capsule glabrous or sparingly pubescent 

 4. V. praemorsa 



3. Viola Macloskeyi Lloyd, Erythea, vol. 3, p. 74. 1895. 



Type locality. — "Mossj^ springy places in the Cascades, Oregon." 



Range. — British Columbia to California and Colorado. 



Zone. — Canadian and Hudsonian in wet meadows. 



Specimens examined. — Glen Alpine, Tahoe, Chesnut and Drew, 

 August 16, 1890; Half-Moon Lake, Tahoe, 7,760 feet, McGregor 161; 

 Heather Lake, wet meadow below the lake, 8,000 feet, Smiley 158; 

 Pyramid Peak, 7,000 feet, W. S. Atkinson in 1900; Corral Springs, 

 Amador County, 7,000 feet, Hansen 545; about Marlette Lake, east 

 of Tahoe, 2460 m.. Baker 1289; W\utQ Wolf, Yosemite, 8,000 feet, 



