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45. PRIMULACEAE (Primrose Family) 



Corolla lobes erect or spreading; stamens included. 



Corolla small and white, contracted at the throat; dwarf annual ..1. Androsace 

 Corolla larger (%-% inch long), red-purple, funnel form; perennial 12. Primula 



Corolla lobes reflexed; stamens exserted 3. Dodecatheon 



1. ANDROSACE 



1. Androsace septentrionalis var. subulifera Gray, Syn. Fl., vol. 

 2, pt. 1, p. 60. 1878. 



Type locality. — "Rocky Mountains near Boulder City, Colorado, 

 H. G. French. San Bernardino Count}^, California, Parry and Lem- 

 ftion." 



Range. — Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast. 



Specimens exmnined. — Mt. Dana, in saddle, 11,600 feet, W. L. 

 Jepson 3306: 



Through the kindness of Dr. Jepson, I was able to examine this 

 interesting collection, the first of the species (and also of the genus) 

 so far made within our limits. It had before been collected in Califor- 

 nia in the San Bernardino Mountains, and in the White Mountains of 

 Inyo County {Shockley 452 at 13,000 feet). 



2. PRIMULA 



1. Primula suffrutescens Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 7, p. 37. 

 1867. 



Type locality. — "Sierra Nevada, on Silver Mountain, alt. 10,500 

 feet, near the snow. Brewer." 



Range. — Sierra Nevada. 



Zone. — Arctic-alpine. 



Specimens examined. — Plumas County, Mrs. Austin in 1878 ; Castle 

 Peak near the highest point, Heller 7096 ; same locality, Pringle, Sep- 

 tember 23, 1882; Cloud's Rest, 10,000 feet, A. Gray in 1872; Mt. Dana, 

 H. M. Evans, July, 1901; Mt. Gibbs, Yosemite, 12,200 feet. Smiley 

 781; Denel's Peak, Upper Kern River, 10,500-12,800 feet. Hall and 

 Babcock 5509; Mt. AVliitney, Culbertson (B 4524) ; Kaiser Peak, 

 Fresno County, 10,200 feet. Smiley 645; Whitney meadows, above 

 timber line on mountains nortli of meadows, Coville and Funston 1663 ; 

 Sawtooth Peak, Tulare County, 12,000 feet, Hall and Babcock 5677 ; 

 Black Peak, Kaweah Peaks, Tulare County, 12,000 feet, Dudley 2128 ; 

 near top of Alta Peak, Tulare County, 11,000 feet, Dudley 1538 ; Fish- 

 erman's Peak (Old Mt. Whitney), 13,000 feet, Cowles 419; rocks on 

 slope of Mt. Kaweah, Tulare County, 12,000 feet, Dudley 2106. 



