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4. Gentiana holopetala (Gray) Holm, Ottawa Nat., vol. 15, p. 110. 

 1901. 



G. scrraia Gunner, var. holopetala Gray, in Brewer and Wats., Bot. Calif., 

 vol. 1, p. 481. 1876. 



Type locality. — "Wet ground, in the higher regions of the Sierra 

 Nevada: Soda Springs of the Tuolumne, at 8,600 feet (a pygmy form, 

 only 2 to 5 inches high, with leaves merely 4 or 5 lines long and crowded 

 towards the base), to Mariposa Co. above the Yosemite (much larger, 

 a span high or more, Bolatider." 



Range.- — Sierra Nevada from the Yosemite region southward to 

 Tulare County, 



Zone. — Canadian mainly. 



Specimens examined. — Soda springs of the Tuolumne, 8,600 feet, 

 Bolander 2847; Ostrander's, above Yosemite, 7-8,000 feet, Bolander 

 6359 ; trail to Cloud's Rest, 8,000 feet. Smiley 505 ; Tuolumne meadows 

 near the river (tip of petals erose), 8,500 feet. Smiley 832 ; South Fork 

 of the San Joaquin, 7,650 feet. Hall and Chandler 630 ; Nellie Lake, 

 Fresno County, 8,800 feet, Smiley 612 ; meadow on Shuteye Mountain, 

 Madera County, 7,800 feet, Smiley 555 ; Natural Bridge meadow, 

 Tulare Count}', 8,000 feet, Culbertson (B4260) ; Funston's meadows, 

 Tulare County, 9,000 feet, Dudley 2181 ; near Farewell Gap, Dudley 

 2599, 1141 ; South Fork of Kem River, 9,800 feet, Rothrock 381, 313 

 at 10,000 feet. 



The petals of this species are not always truly entire, but they 

 are never deeply incised as in G. elegans A. Nels. of the Rockies of 

 Wvoming and Colorado. 



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5. Gentiana simplex Gray, Pac. R.R. Rep., vol. 6, p. 87, t. 16. 1857. 



Type localtiy. — "Upper Klamath Lake,'' California. 



Range. — Mountains of eastern Oregon south through the Mt. Shasta 

 region and the Sierra Nevada to the mountains of southern California. 

 Southern Idaho. 



Zone. — Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Summit of Lit. Dyer, Plumas County, ]\Irs. 

 Austin in 1880 ; Sierra County, Lemmon 727 ; Summit Valley, Sierra 

 County, 7,000 feet, E. L. Greene 385; Carson Spur, Alpine County, 

 8,500 feet, Hansen 708; Angora Lakes, Tahoe, 7,000 feet, McGregor 

 210; Squaw Valley trail. Placer County, 8,000 feet. Brewer 2153; 

 Converse Basin, Fresno County, Dudley, August 18, 1904; Mt. Ray- 

 mond, Madera County, 7,800 feet, Smiley 530; Nellie Lake meadow, 



