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Locs. — S. Cal. : Descanso, San Diego Co., T. Brandegee ; Strawberry Valley, Mt. San Jacinto, 

 Jepson 1309; Mt. Lowe, Peirson 117; Santa Inez Mts., T. Brandegee. Tehachapi region: Mohave 

 sta., Davy 2165; Girard sta., Heller 7721. Coast Eanges: Pozo Eange, San Luis Obispo Co., 

 Jepson 11,990 ; North Fork Lewis Creek, se. San Benito Co., Jepson 2681 ; San Benito Peak, San 

 Carlos Eange, Jepson 14,114; Big Sur Eiver, Santa Lucia Mts., Davy 7437; Joaquin Spr., Mt. 

 Hamilton, Jepson 4220; Mt. Diablo, Mary Bowerman ; Vaca Mts., Jepson 2183; Howell Mt., 

 Napa Eange, Jepson 512 ; Hoods Peak Eange, w. of St. Helena, Jepson 14,113 ; Knoxville, ne. 

 Napa Co., C. F. Baker 3082 ; Pinnacle Eock, e. Lake Co., Dutton; South Mill Creek, Ukiah, Jepson 

 9265 ; Willits, M. S. Baker; Buck Mt., Humboldt Co., Tracy 4149. Sierra Nevada: Limekiln Creek, 

 Tulare Co., Jepson 2784; Hume, Fresno Co., H. P. Kelley ; betw. Oak Flat and Badger, Tulare 

 Co., U. P. Kelley; Pinehurst, Fresno Co., Newlon 162; Bubbs Creek, Fresno Co., Ottley 1471; 

 Bass Lake, Madera Co., Jepson 12,865; Chowchilla School, Mariposa Co., Jepson 12,797; 

 Crane Flat, Yosemite, Jepson 10,445; Columbia, Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 648; Murphys, Cala- 

 veras Co., Davy 1555; Bear Valley, Nevada Co., Jepson 14,112; Little Summit, Butte Co., Keller 

 11,481; Lassen Peak, Chesnut 4" Drew; Big Valley mts., M. S. Baker; Mt. Shasta, Jepson 14,120, 



Var. pinetorum Greene. Leaf-blades mostly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, deeply serrate 

 to entire; flowers small, on filiform peduncles; peduncles l^/^ to 2i/2 inches long; petals yellow, 

 all often bro-UTiish-purple on the back. — High montane slopes, openings in coniferous forests, 

 7300 to 8500 feet: San Bernardino Mts. and north to the Sierra Nevada (Tulare Co. to Lassen 

 Co.). 



Locs. — Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 1796 ; Alta MdAvs., Tulare Co., Newlon 27 ; 

 Mt. Silliman, Jepson 737; Nellie Lake, Fresno Co., A. L. Grant 1017 ; Gin Flat, Yosemite, Jepson 

 10,509; Eagle Peak, Yosemite, Jepson 4354; Stubblefield Canon, Tuolumne Co., Jepson 4538; 

 Gilmore Lake, Eldorado Co., Ottley 890; Snag Lake, Lassen Co., Jepson 4114. 



Var. venosa Brainerd. Dwarf, 1 to 2 (or 4) inches high; lower leaf -blades round-ovate, some 

 of them cordate or subcordate at base, entire or coarsely notched, 5 to 6 lines long, the upper 

 narrower and entire; veins often purple. — Montane, 4000 to 7000 feet: widely dispersed but in- 

 frequent, almost throughout cismontane California. East to Utah. 



Locs. — Mt. "Wilson, Ottley 651; Mt. San Antonio, Peirson 118; betw. Pine Flats and Chileo, 

 San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 2491 ; San Benito Peak, San Carlos Eange, Jepson 14,114 ; Snow Mt., 

 Lake Co., M. S. Baker; Truckee, Sonne 24 ; Lassen Peak, Chesnut 4" Drew 19 ; Hay den HiU, Modoc 

 Co., L. S. Smith 923; South Fork Fitzhugh Creek, Warner Mts., L. S. Smith 52; Mt. Shasta, 

 Lemmon; Humbug, Siskiyou Co., Butler 632. 



Var. grisea Jepson var, n. Dwarf, 1 to 2 inches high ; herbage gray-tomentose ; leaf -blades 

 mostly narrow-lanceolate, crenate-erosulate or saliently lacerate or some remarkably undulate- 

 crenate, % to 1 inch long, the petioles V2 to 1^ inches long; petals yellow. — (Planta humilis, unc, 

 1-2 alta; barbae canescentes, tomentosae; plerumque folia anguste lanceolata, vel insigniter 

 undulato-crenata, unc. %-l longa; petioli unc. %-li/4 longi; petala lutea.) — High montane, on 

 sandy flats, 6000 to 8500 feet: Sierra Nevada in Tulare Co. (Templeton Mdws., Kern Eiver, 

 Jepson 4977, type) ; Tehachapi Mts. (Bear Mt., Jepson 7174). 



Var. aurea M. S. Baker in herb., comb. n. Herbage more or less tomentose, the petioles con- 

 spicuously pilose ; basal leaf -blades coarsely and often regularly dentate or sinuate-dentate, the 

 teeth with white glandular tips. — Sandy or rocky soil, 2500 to 5800 feet: east slope or east side 

 Sierra Nevada, often in pinon belt or among sagebrush. 



Locs. — Nevada: Verdi, Washoe Co., Sonne; Eeno, Kennedy. 



Eefs. — Viola purpurea Kell. Proc. Cal. Acad. 1:56 (1854), type from Cal. presumably but 

 loc. not stated except as "from the interior"; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 232 (1901), ed. 2, 266 

 (1911), Man. 645, fig. 636 (1925). Var. pinetorum Greene, Fl. Fr. 243 (1891). F. pinetorum 

 Greene, Pitt. 2 :14 (1889), type loc. Tehachapi, Kern Co., Greene; Jepson, Man. 645 (1925). Var, 

 VENOSA Brainerd, Vt. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 224:111, fig. 48c (1921) ; Jepson, Man. 645 (1925), 

 V. nuttallii var. venosa Wats. Bot. King 35 (1871), type loc. "in the mts. from the west Hum- 

 boldt to the Wahsatch", Watson 145. V. aurea var. venosa Wats. ; B. & W. Bot. Cal. 1 :56 (1876), 

 V. praemorsa var, venosa Gray, Syn. Fl. r:200 (1895). V. venosa Eydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. 

 Gard. 1:262 (1900). Var. grisea Jepson. Var. aurea M. S. Baker. F. aurea Kell. Proc. Cal, 

 Acad. 2:185, fig. 54 (1862), type from "Nevada territory", 



8. V. nuttallii Pursli. Sheep Violet. Plants 2 to 5 (or 7) inches high, the 

 short stems leafy but the leaves mostly basal; peduncles shorter than or scarcely 

 exceeding the leaves; herbage puberulent, sometimes canescent, sometimes gla- 

 brous or nearly so; leaf -blades oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate or ovate, entire or 

 slightly denticulate or crenulate, 1 to 2 inches long, rather shortly attenuate at 

 base into the petiole; petioles 1 to 6 inches long; petals yellow, the lowest brown- 

 veined, 2 to 4 lines long; capsule glabrous. 



Meadows or dry pine woods, 4300 to 7500 feet : North Coast Ranges from north- 



