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McLean in June, 1875; Tenaya Lake, Yosemite, meadow south of the 

 lake, 8,200 feet. Smiley 695 ; vicinity of Lake Tenaya, 8,200 feet, Hall 

 and Babcock 3518 j Tuolumne meadows, open sandy loam, 8,600 feet, 

 R. A. Ware 2633c; Denel's Peak, Tulare County, 10,500 feet. Hall 

 and Babcock 5518. 



Gnaphalium palustre Nutt. (Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II, vol. 7, p. 

 404. 1841), a small woolly annual, 1-6 inches high, is adventive about 

 the shores of many small mountain lakes throughout the boreal region 

 — Silver Lake, Amador County, 8,000 feet, Hansen 774; shores of 

 Lake Tenaya, Yosemite, 8,100 feet. Smiley 874; Funston's Sheep 

 Ranch, Tulare County, 10,000 feet, Culbertson (B4675). 



27. CIRSIUM 



Leaves pinnatifid, white-woolly; subacaulescent; heads nearly sessile in the clump 



of basal leaves, whitish or sometimes purple flowered 



1. C. Drummondii var. acaulescens 



Leaves toothed but scarcely pinnatifid, green above, woolly below; stems 1-3 

 feet high; heads bright red or pink, long peduncled 2. C. Andersonii 



1. Cirsium Drummondii var. acaulescens (Gray), comb. nov. 



Cnicus Drummondii var. acaulescens Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 10, p. 40. 



1874. 

 Cnicus tioganus Congdon, Erythea, vol. 7, p. 186. 1900. 

 Cirsium. aoaulesoens K. Sch., in Just's Bot. Jahresb., vol. 29, pt. 1, p. 566. 



1903. 



Type locality. — "Rocky Mountains, and sparingly in the Sierra 

 Nevada of California.'' 



Range. — Yukon south along the Rocky Mountains to New Mexico, 

 west to Oregon and southward in the Sierra Nevada to southern Cali- 

 fornia. 



Zone. — -Transition and Canadian. 



Specimeiis ex^amined. — Little Truckee River, Sierra County, 6,300 

 feet. Hall and Babcock 4525 ; Hope Valley, Alpine County, 8,500 feet, 

 Hanseh 389 ; Suzy Lake, Tahoe, 7,800 feet, Smiley 178 ; foot of IMt. 

 Dana, Congdon, August 11, 1898 ; Bloody Canon, Mono County, Cong- 

 don .28 ; North Fork of Kern River, Coville and Funston 1714. 



It is very doubtful if this form is sufficiently well marked from 

 the typical form of the species to call for taxonomic notice, since it 

 sometimes grows with the species and is then seen to pass directl}^ 

 into the specific form; the chief reason for distinguishing the variety 

 is that it commonly grows at higher levels than tlie species, and in its 

 zone of greatest frequency, the type state is rarely found. 



