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3a. Viola purpurea var. pinetorum Greene, Fl. Fran., p. 243. 

 1891. 

 V. pinetorum Greene, Pitt., vol. 2, p. 14. 1889. 



Type locality. — "Pine woods of the higher mountains south of 

 Tehachapi, Kern Co., California." 



Range. — Mountains of central and southern California; extending 

 north into Oregon? Wooton and Standley (Contr. Nat. Herb., vol. 19, 

 p. 430) identify a violet collected in northern New Mexico with this 

 variety. 



Zone. — Arid Transition and Canadian. 



Specimens ex-amined. — Summit, 7,000 feet. Heller 9836 ; above 

 Independence Lake, 7,500 feet, Hall and Babcock 4540 ; Lily Lake, 

 Tahoe, in forest of Pinus Jeffrcyi, 6,700 feet. Smiley 318 ; near White 

 Wolf, Yosemite, 8,000 feet, H. M. Evans, July, 1901 ; Mt. Lola, Tahoe, 

 Kennedy and Doten 178 ; near Mt. Dana, dry slopes, 9-10,000 feet. 

 Brewer ; Tuolumne meadows, open pine forest, 8,600 feet, R. A. Ware 

 2600c ; hillside above Soda Springs, Yosemite, 7,400 feet. Smiley 455 ; 

 Bonita meadow, dry open pine forests, 8,500 feet. Hall and Babcock 

 5189 ; Kaweah Peaks region, Tulare County, Dudley 2411 ; Mt. 

 Olancha, Tulare County, 11,000 feet, Hall and Babcock 5235. 



This variety is feebly distinguished from the species by having 

 leaves usually more deeply toothed and an increase in the amount of 

 pubescence. 



4. Viola praemorsa Doug., in Lindl., Bot. Reg., vol. 15, pi. 1254. 

 1829. 



Type locality. — "In dry upland soils, under the shade of solitary 

 pine trees on the banks of the Columbia, and the plains of the river 

 Aquilar, in California." 



Range. — California to Washington and Idaho. 



Zone. — Arid Transition and above in a dwarf state in the Can- 

 adian. 



Specirtiens eocwnined. — Summit, Placer County, 7,000 feet, Heller 

 9859; Crescent Lake, Mariposa County, Congdon, August, 1890. 



