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3. Epilobium ursinum Parish var. subfalcatum Trelease, Rep. Mo. 



Bot. Gard., vol. 2, p. 101. 1891. 



Type locality. — Not given. 



Range. — Sierra Nevada northward to Washington? 



Specimens examined. — Silver Lake, Amador County, 8,000 feet, 

 Hansen 306 ; slope above Gilmore Lake, west side of Mt. Tallac, Tahoe, 

 8,500 feet. Smiley 373. 



The tj'pe species, E. ursinum Parish in Trelease (I.e.), was 

 described from the mountains of southern California, but is present 

 in the Sierra, growing in the Transition zone and rising locally to the 

 edge of the Canadian (Snow Creek, Yosemite, 6,500 feet. Smiley 659; 

 Round meadow, Fresno County, 7,300 feet, Smiley 587). 



4. Epilobium anagallidifolium Lam. Encyc, vol. 2, p. 376. 1786. 



Type locality.—' ' Mont-d 'Or. ' ' 



Range. — Holarctic realm; in America south to Quebec, northern 

 New England (?), Colorado and California. 



Zone. — Arctic-alpine. 



Specimens examined. — Wet meadows. Farewell Gap, Tulare 

 County, 10,400 feet, Purpus 5668 ; Mt. Silliman, Tulare County, Mrs. 

 Brandegee, August 22, 1905; Ebbett's Pass, Brewer 1891, the speci- 

 men in poor condition and not certainly determined as of this species, 

 perhaps of no. 8. 



5. Epilobium oregonense Hausskn., Monogr., p. 276. 1884. 



Type locality — "Oregon in alpinis. " 



Range. — Pacific Coast from Washington to California ; at the north- 

 east to Idaho. 



Zone. — Transition and Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Little Valley, Ormsby County, Nevada, 

 2,000-2,155 m., Baker 1357 ; Sierra Valley, Lemmon in 1873. 



5a. Epilobium oregonense var. gracillimum Trelease, I.e., p. 109. 



E. Pringleanum Hausskn., Mitt, geogr. Gesellsch. Jena, vol. 7, p. 5. 1888. 



Type locality. — "Bogs, Strawberry Valley, California." 



Range. Same as the species. 



Zone. — Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Near Summit Station, Heller 7030 ; head of 

 Tuolumne River, 9,000 feet, Brewer 1766; Westf all's meadows, 

 Yosemite, Bolander 4965 ; shores of Marlette Lake, east of Lake Tahoe, 

 Hall and Chandler 4516. 



