1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 399 



1. Antennaria media Greene, Pitt., vol. 3, p. 286. 1898. 



A. pulchella Greene, Leaflets, vol. 2, p. 149. 1911. 



Type locality. — "Mountains above Coldstream, Placer County, 

 California. ' ' 



Range. — High momitains of western North America from British 

 Columbia and Alberta south to Colorado and California. 



Zone. — Hudsonian and Arctic-alpine. 



Specimens examined.— Frog Lake, Castle Peak, Sonne, July 31, 

 1897; Mt. Rose, 9,650 feet. Heller 9902b; Slide Mountain, Washoe 

 County, Nevada, Heller 10962 in part; Pyramid Peak, Tahoe, 9,200 

 feet, Hall and Chandler 4740; Desolation Valley, Tahoe, McGregor 

 162; Mt. Rose, 10,000 feet, Kennedy 1149; Mt. Tallac, Tahoe, G. R. 

 Hall, 8794 ; Ralston Peak, Tahoe, 9,000 feet. Smiley 419 ; Mono Pass, 

 at summit and above, 10,700-11,000 feet. Brewer 1725; Mt. Dana, 

 12,200 feet, Smiley 728 ; same locality, at timber line, 10,300 feet, Hall 

 and Babcock 3622 ; Mt. Gibbs, north side at 10,400 feet. Smiley 767 ; 

 Mt. Goddard, 11,000 feet. Hall and Chandler 686; Cloud's Rest, Sum- 

 mit, Chesnut and Drew, July 12, 1889; Cathedral Peak, near Tuol- 

 umne meadows, 9,600 feet, Smiley 815; White Chief Mountain, near 

 Mineral King, Tulare County, Culbertson (B 4505) ; southern high 

 Sierra, Brewer 2830; Eagle Lake, Tulare County, 10,500 feet, Hall 

 and Babcock 5366 ; Kearsarge Lakes, Tulare County, S. W. Austin, 

 557; mountains on Little Kern River, 10-11,000 feet, Purpus 5230. 



This species is said by E. Nelson^-*^ to be too close to A. umbrinella 

 Rydb. (Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 24, p. 302. 1897), described from 

 "Long Baldy in the Little Belt Mountains," Montana, and he suggests 

 that it may ultimately have to be regarded as only a dwarf form of 

 that species, authentic material of which I have not seen. A. umbri- 

 nella is also a high mountain species and, according to Nelson, is 

 nearer to the Arctic A. alpina Gaertn. than any other western Anten- 

 naria. A. pulchella Greene, founded upon Hall and Chandler 686 

 above cited, is described as differing from A. media mainly in the 

 "subentire" tips to the pappus, but inspection of the cotj'pe in U. C. 

 disclosed the tj^pical dilated tips with irregular contours of A. media. 

 The plant referred to by Miss Eastwood*'' as having been collected on 

 Harrison's Pass above timber line in the southern Sierra of Tulare 

 County is of this species or possibly of the following variety. 



