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nearly so (or the middle leaflet stalked), fan-shaped, incisely and somewhat ob- 

 tusely many-toothed, thin, % to l^/^ inches long; cyme 1 to 3-flowered, loose; flowers 

 8 to 10 lines wide; petals bright yellow, deeply notched at apex, 3^/^ to 5 lines long; 

 stamens about 20; achenes reddish-brown. 



High montane in pine woods or subalpine in moist meadows, 7300 to 12,200 

 feet : Sierra Nevada from Tulare Co. to Shasta Co. ; Siskiyou Co. North to British 

 Columbia. June-Aug. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada : Lost Creek, Sawtooth Eange, Jepson 4994 ; Mt. Silliman, Tulare Co., 

 Jepson 754; Nellie Lake, Fresno Co., A. L. Grant 1089; Kaiser Peak, A. L. Grant 1443; Parker 

 Pass, Madera Co., A. L. Grant 1599 ; Vogelsang Pass, Jepson 4429k ; Clouds Rest, Yosemite, Brew ; 

 Dana Fork, Tuolumne River, Jepson 3257 ; Smedberg Lake, Tuolumne Co., Jepson 3379 ; Heather 

 Lake, Eldorado Co., Ottley 1150; Silver Valley, Alpine Co., Jepson 10,156; Tinker's Knob, Placer 

 Co., Sonne; Bear Creek, Truckee River, Placer Co., Sonne 78; Lassen Peak, R. M. Austin 492. 

 Siskiyou Co.: Mt. Shasta (N. Am. Fauna 16:149) ; Marble Mt., Butler 1714 (glabrate). 



Var. grayi Jepson. Stems 2 to 5 (or 8) inches high; leaves glabrous or nearly so, on petioles 

 % to 1 inch long; leaflets coarsely and acutely 5 to 7-tootlied (the teeth somewhat triangular), 

 3 to 9 lines long, the terminal leaflet distinctly stalked. — High montane, 8000 to 10,000 feet: 

 Sierra Nevada from Mariposa Co. to Tulare Co. June-Aug. 



Locs. — Lake Tenaya, Yosemite, Brewer 1685; Crescent Lake, Mariposa Co., Congdon; Black 

 Mt., Fresno Co., Hall rf- Chandler 615 ; Hockett Mdws., Tulare Co., Purpus 1826. 



Refs. — PoTENTiLLA FLABELLIFOLIA Hook. ; T. & G. Fl. 1:442 (1840), type loe. summit of Mt. 

 Rainier, Wash., Bouglas; Lehm. Rev. Pot. 153, t. 51 (1856) ; Rydb. Mem. Dept. Bot. Columbia 

 Univ. 2:77, pi. 31, figs. 6-10 (1898) ; Jepson, Man. 489, fig. 484 (1925). P. gelida Wats. Bot. 

 Cal. 1:180 (1876), type loc. Summit sta., Nevada Co., Bolander ; not P. gelida Meyer (1831). 

 Var. GRAYI Jepson, Man. 490 (1925). P. grayi Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 8:560 (1873), type loc. 

 "Yosemite Valley," Bolander; Rydb. I.e. i05, pi. 44, figs. 6-10. P. clarlciana Kell. Proc. Cal. 

 Acad. 7:94 (1876), type loc. not stated, but actually mts. of Fresno Co., the only Sierran area 

 where Eisen collected in the seventies. 



19. P. wheeleri Wats. Kern Cinquefoil. Stems several from the base, de- 

 cumbent or prostrate, leafy, 1 to 6 (or 10) inches long; herbage densely silky- 

 villous; leaves digitate, 3 to 5-foliolate; petioles Y2 to 3 inches long; leaflets cuneate, 

 3 to 5- toothed or -cleft at the rounded summit, 4 to 10 lines long (very unequal in 

 size on a plant) ; stipules entire or nearly so; cyme much-branched, the branches 

 and pedicels slender, usually more or less arcuate; flowers 3i/^ to 5 lines wide; petals 

 yellow, obcordate, 1% to 214 lines long, slightly exceeding the calyx-lobes; stamens 

 20, the filaments short; achenes many (about 30), pale, usually striate. 



High montane, 6500 to 11,400 feet : Sierra Nevada in Tulare Co.; San Bernar- 

 dino Mts.; San Jacinto Mts. South to Lower California. June-Aug. 



Locs. — Volcano Creek, Tulare Co., Jepson 4949 ; Monache Creek, Tulare Co., Hall <§' BahcocTc 

 5284; Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 2363; South Fork Santa Ana River, Peirson 

 3113 ; Tahquitz Peak, San Jacinto Mts., F. M. Peed 2529 (var. rimicola M. & J.). 



Var. paupercula Jepson. Alpine dwarf; stems about 1 inch long; leaflets folded, densely 

 silky, IY2 to 2% lines long; cymes dense, glomerate, about 5-flowered. — Granite gravel, 11,400 

 feet : Mt. San Gorgonio summit, Blasdale. 



Refs. — PoTENTiLLA WHEELERI Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 11:148 (1876), type loc. headwaters 

 of Kern River, Eothroch ; Bot. Wheeler 360, pi. 3B, figs. 4-7 (1878) ; Rydb. Mem. Dept. Bot. 

 Columbia Univ. 2:54, pi. 16, figs. 1-5 (1898) ; Jepson, Man. 488 (1925). P. wheeleri var. typica 

 M. & J. Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 24:18 (1925). P. wheeleri var. viscidula Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 23:429 

 (1896), type loc. Arizona (probably as to California spms. cited). P. viscidula Rydb. N. Am. Fl. 

 22:327 (1908). P. wheeleri var. rimicola M. & J. I.e. 19, type loc. Dark Canon, San Jacinto Mts., 

 Mum ^ Johnston 8764 (herbage glandular, pedicels very slender). Var. paupercula Jepson, 

 Man. 488 (1925), type loc. summit of San Gorgonio, W. C. Blasdale. 



20. P. diversifolia Lehm. Painters Cinquefoil. Stems erect or erect with 

 ascending base, 6 to 11 inches high, the leaves mostly basal; herbage villous- 

 pubescent; leaves pinnate or the leaflets approximate at summit of the petiole and 

 thus digitate; petioles 1 to 3 inches long; leaflets 5 to 7, oblanceolate or cuneate- 

 obovate, I/2 to 1% or 2 inches long, green on both faces, the margin cut into tri- 

 angular or lanceolate teeth; cyme few- to many-flowered, branched, at first con- 



