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feet, Hall 8450; mountain near Whitney meadows, Tulare Couiity, 

 11-12,000 feet, Purpus 1634; Funston's meadows, Tulare County, 

 Dudley 2166; Wliitney meadows, 2,850 m., Coville and Funston 1608. 

 This species is fairly common about the borders of the high sandy 

 meadows but occasionally is also found on rocky outcrops, especially 

 at the upper limit of its range. 



5. Haplopappus eximius Hall, Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot., vol. 6, p. 

 170. 1915. 



Type locality. — "Crevices of granite rocks at an altitude of 2,680 

 meters on a peak 1 kilometer S.S.W. of Angora Peak, El Dorado 

 County, California. ' ' 



Range. — Central Sierra Nevada (Tahoe Region). 



Zone. — Hudsonian. 



Specimens ea;ammecZ.— Ralston Peak, Tahoe, Miss H. D. Geiss 18 ; 

 same localitj^ 8,800 feet. Smiley 417 ; same locality, G. R. Hall, July 

 30, 1910 ; near Angora Peak, 8,800 feet, G. R. Hall 8771. 



This species represents in the Sierra that group, separated as the 

 genus Tonestus by Dr. Nelson (Bot. Gaz., vol. 37, p. 262. 1904), but 

 without distinct floral characters, which includes H. Lyallii Gray, 

 alpine in the mountains of the Northwest from Oregon to British 

 Columbia and extending east to Montana, and //. pygmaens T. and G., 

 a species of similar habitat in the mountains of Wyoming and Colo- 

 rado and in the high mountains of northern New Mexico. 



6. HAZARDIA 



1. Hazardia Whitneyi (Gray) Greene, Pitt., vol. 3, p. 43. 1896. 



Aplopappus Whitneyi Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 7, p. 353. 1867. 



Type locality. — "Mono trail and Sonora Pass, in open woods, alt. 

 9,000 feet; grows in large tufts, Bolander." 



Range. — Siskiyou Mountains and Sierra Nevada. 



Zone. — Transition and Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Mt. Dyer, Plumas County, Mrs. R. ]\I. 

 Austin in 1880; Glacier Point, Yosemite, W. M. Canby, August 15, 

 1895; Mono trail and Sonora Pass, open woods at 9,000 feet, Bolander 

 6008; Wawona Grove, Mariposa County, Hall and Babcock 1558; 

 Mineral King, Tulare County, Brandegee, July 27, 1892; Mt. Silli- 

 man, Tulare County, Mrs. Brandegee, August 7, 1905 ; vaokj slopes 

 along Little Kern River, 9-10,000 feet, Purpus 2031; Farewell Gap 

 region, Tulare County, 9,500 feet, Culbertson (B4584). 



