1921J Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 347 



is a most untrustworthy character ; Jepson calls it ' ' ovate ' ' ; Piper 

 "pyramidal," while Greene, when making determinations for Baker's 

 Sierran collections, referred to S. calUcarpa forms with obviously 

 dome-shaped cymes. 



S. microhotrys Rydb. is described as being completely glabrous. 

 I have not seen Bessey's type from Pike's Peak, but have examined 

 a fairly representative series of the red-berried elder from the Colo- 

 rado-Montana region and believe that such an examination will lead 

 inevitably to the conclusion that in the Cordilleran section, S. race- 

 mosa shows every gradation from being conspicuously pubescent to 

 glabrate or even nearly glabrous. 



2. Sambucus melanocarpa Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 19, p. 76. 



1883. 



Type locality. — Not given, "first collected in New Mexico by 

 Fendler" (the only Samhiicus collected by Fendler is his No. 286 from 

 ' ' Margins of Santa Fe Creek. " ) 



Range. — Washington and Montana to California (east slope of 

 the Sierra) and New Mexico. 



Zone. — Canadian. 



Specimen examined. — Snow Valley, Ormsby County, Nevada, 

 2,460-2,615 m., Baker 1155. 



This collection is the only one of the black-berried elder seen by 

 me from the Sierra. Bolander 5052, from the Tuolumne region, 

 10.000 feet, lacks the fruit but was referred here by Dr. Gray because 

 of foliage character. B. A. Ware 2689c, from Lambert's Dome, 

 Yosemite, 9,100 feet, is perhaps to be referred here. 



2. SYMPHORICARPOS 



Corolla pubescent within; nutlets of the drupe oval, the ends about equally 

 rounded; leaves pubescent and thick 1. S. rotundifolius 



Corolla glabrous within; nutlets of the drupe obovate, cuneate, or conical at 

 base; leaves glabrate and thinner 2. S. oreophilus 



1. Symphoricarpos rotundifolius Gray, PI. "Wright, vol. 2, p. %&. 

 1853. 



S. Parishii Rydb., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 26, p. 545. 1899. 

 S. Austinae Eastw., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 30, p. 499. 1903. 



Type locality. — "Sides of mountains around the copper mines, 

 New Mexico. ' ' 



Range. — Widely distributed in the Cordilleran region of North 

 America and west to the Pacific Coast. 



Zone. — Arid Transition to Canadian. 



