1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 405 



2. Agoseris aurantiaca Greene, Pitt., vol. 2, p. 177. 1891. 



Troximon aurantiacum Hook., Fl. Bor. Am., vol. 1, p. 300, pi. 104. 1833. 



Type locality. — "Alpine prairies of the Rocky Mountains." 



Range. — British Columbia east to Alberta and south to New Mexico 

 and California. 



Zone. — Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Dry hillsides above Suzy Lake, Tahoe, 7,800 

 feet, Smiley 163 ; Mt. Rose, east side at 8,450 feet. Heller, July 10, 

 1913 ; dry slope near White Wolf, Yosemite, 8,000 feet, Smiley 893. 



31. CREPIS 



Leaves glabrous and somewhat glaucous, obovate-spatulate, entire or shallowly 

 lobed; achene dilated at the insertion of the soft pappus; dwarf alpine 

 from running rootstocks 1. C. nana 



Leaves pubescent, lanceolate in outline, pinnatifid or bipinnatifid with a long 

 acuminate terminal lobe; stems rising from a stout perennial root .... 

 2. C. occidentalis var. subacaulis 



1. Crepis nana Richards.. Bot. App. Frankl. Jour., ed. 2, p. 757. 



1823. 



Type locality. — "On the Copper Mine River." 



Range. — Subarctic America south to Colorado and California. 

 Labrador. 



Zone. — Arctic-alpine. 



Specimens examined. — Sonora Pass, 10,000 feet. Brewer 1884; 

 gravelly places near Farewell Gap, Tulare County, 10,600 feet. Pur- 

 pus 5202. 



2. Crepis occidentalis var. subacaulis Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad., 



vol. 5, p. 50. 1873. 



C. occidentalis var. nevadensis Kellogg, I.e. 



C. subacaulis Coville, Contr. Nat. Herb., vol. 3, p. 562. 1896. 



Type locality. — "Found on the high peaks at Cisco, C. P. R.R., 

 Sierra Nevada Mountains, about 7,000 feet." 



Range. — Sierra Nevada to the mountains of southern California. 



Zone. — Transition and lower Canadian. 



Specimens examined.- — Sierra Valley, Lemmon 80; Cisco, Bran- 

 nan Jr., June 27, 1870; Castle Peak near the highest point. Heller 

 7086 ; Summit, Bolander and Kellogg in 1870. 



The species is common in the Transition zone, often growing with 

 the variety, which differs mainly in the absence of glandular hairs 

 on the upper parts of the stems, these in the type being often viscid. 



