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cent City, Eastwood. S. californicum Britt. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3:44 (1903), type loc. Mt. 

 Shasta. Broxcn. S. anovwhtm Britt. N. Am. Fl. 22:72 (1905). Gormania anomala Britt. Bull. 

 N. y. Bot. Gard. 3:30 (1903), type loc. San Luis Obispo Co., Summers. 



G. S. obtusatum Gray. Gr.vnite Sedum. Floworin": stems erect, leafy, 3 to 6 

 inches liiy;li; leaves of the rosettes broadly spatulate, thick, green, 5 to 12 lines long, 

 2 to 3 lines wide; stem leaves linear-spatulate to orbicular; cyme elongate or tliyr- 

 soid. sometimes tlat-topped; petals white (or brownish-yellow and usually with 

 a well defined white margin), oblong-lanceolate, 3 to 5 lines long, the upper portion 

 spreading or recurving, united for ' (•, to Vj of their lengtli into a distinct tube. 



On rocks or granite detritus in the mountains, 4500 to 12,000 feet : Sierra Ne- 

 vada from Tulare Co. to Nevada Co. ; Coast Ranges from Lake and Mendocino Cos. 

 to Si.skiyou and Del Norte Cos. June-July. Very close to S. oreganum Nutt. of 

 Oregon and perhaps not specifically distinct. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada: Alta Mdws., Tulare Co., Hopping 524; Mt. Silliman, Hopping 3G1; 

 Piute Creek, Fresno Co., E. Ferguson 458; Lake Merced, Merced Eiver, Jepson 3182; Eagle Peak 

 trail to El Capitan, Jepson 435G; Shadow Lake, Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 1572; Soda Sprs. 

 caiion, Kennedy Lake, A. L. Grant 550; Echo Kidge near Fallen Leaf, Ottley 1177; Bear Valley, 

 Nevada Co., Jepson 13,445; Summit sta., Nevada Co., Jepson 13,444. North Coast Eanges: 

 Snow Mt., Lake Co.; Middle Eel Eiver near Castle Peak, Jepson 13,443; Horse Mt., Humboldt 

 Co., Tracy 7647; Klamath Eiver, n. Humboldt Co., Chandler 1439; Tvrin Lakes to Thompson 

 Peak, Trinity Co., Alexander ^ Kellogg 297; Mt. Eddy, Copeland 3781; Forest House Mountain, 

 Siskiyou Co., Butler 140; Kelscy Trail, Preston Peak, w, Siskiyou Co., Jepson 2867; South Fork 

 Smith Eiver, DelNorte Co., Jepson 2907. 



Eefs. — Sedum obtusatum Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7:342 (1868), type loc. Mt. Hoffman, 

 Breiver; Jepson, Man. 451 (1925). Echeveria ohtiisata Nels. & Mcbr. Bot. Gaz. 56:476 (1913). 

 Gormania obtusata Britt. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3:29 (1903). Gormania hallii Britt. I.e., type 

 loc. Tuolumne Mdws., Hall 4" Babcock 3545. S. obtusatum var. hallii Smiley, Univ. Cal. Publ. 

 Bot. 9:213 (1921). Gormania burnhami Britt. I.e. 30, type loc. betw. Lake Eleanor and Lake 

 Vernon, Tuolumne Co., Burnham. G. retusa Eose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3:31 (1903), type loc. 

 Mt. Sanhedrin, Lake Co., Heller. G. eastwoodiae Britt. I.e. 31, type loc. Eed Mt., n. Mendocino 

 Co., Eastwood. S. rubroglaucum Praeger, Jour. Bot. 57:51 (1919), type loc. Short Trail, Yose- 

 mite Valley, Hall. Echeveria brittonii Nels. & Mcbr. Bot. Gaz. 56: 476 (1913), based on Gor- 

 mania hallii Britt. 



7. S. purdyi Jepson sp. n. Ray Sedum. Flowering stem 3 to 4 inches high, 

 arising from a basal rosette, below which are produced several naked horizontal 

 runners (1 to 2 inches long) which terminate in compact flat rosettes; leaves of 

 the rosettes orbicular or orbicular-spatulate, 1 to 9 lines long; leaves of the erect 

 stems elliptic, obtuse, recurved or sometimes ascending; cyme rather densely flow- 

 ered and compact; petals white, oblong-lanceolate, 2 lines long, the opposite stamens 

 inserted just above the base. — (Caudex folia rosulata, caules unc. 3-4 altos et 

 flagella horizontalia (unc. 1-2 longa) emittens; folia rosulata orbiculata vel orbi- 

 culato-spatulata, unc. 1-9 longa; folia caulina elliptica, obtusa, recurvata vel ali- 

 quando ascendentia ; cyma aliquantum compacta ; petala alba, oblongo-lanceolata, 

 lin. 2 longa, staminibus oppositis paulo supra basim insertis.) 



Rocky slopes, 1000 to 4000 feet : Marble Mt. region to northern Shasta Co. Apr. 



Locs. — Etna Mills, first comm. by Carl Purdy (type) ; Kennett, Shasta Co., BlanTcinship. 



7. ECHEVERIA DC. Live-for-ever 



Perennial herbs. Flowering stems with reduced or scale-like leaves, one or few 

 from the leaf axils of a conspicuous basal rosette. Leaves of the rosette thick and 

 fleshy. Flowers disposed in cymes, their secund branches racemose or thyrsoid. 

 Petals white, yellow, orange or reddish, in ours united at base or nearly distinct. 

 Stamens 10, borne on the tube or base of the petals. Carpels many-seeded. — 

 Species about 180, North and South America. (D. Atanasio Echeverria, botanical 

 artist of IMexico, who made 500 colored drawings for Mocino and Sesse, c. 1790- 

 1804.) 



