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variety, although similar in pubescence to the plants just cited, have narrower leaves and form 

 a more homogeneous group, although mainland representatives are more or less intermediate 

 toward the species: Santa Barbara, Elmer 4012; Santa Eosa Isl., T. Brandegee ; Preys Harbor, 

 Santa Cruz Isl., A. L. Grant 1732; Santa Catalina Isl., Gondii; San Clemente Isl., T. Brandegee; 

 San Luis Rey River (mouth), San Diego Co., Hall 12,294; Escondido, G. V. Meyer 258. 



Eefs. — Zauschneria californica Presl, Rel. Haenk. 2:28, t. 52 (1831), type loc. Monterey, 

 HaenJce; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 327 (1901), ed. 2, 274 (1911), Man. 667, fig. 654 (1925). Z. 

 eastwoodae Eastw. & Moxley, Southwest Sei. Bull. 1:23 (1920), type loe. Los Gatos, Heller 7211 

 (vidi typ.) Var. villosa Jepson, Man. 667 (1925). Z. villosa Greene, Pitt. 1:27 (1887), type 

 k)c. Santa Cruz Isl., Greene. 



2. Z. cana Greene. Gray Balsamea. Leaves fascicled in the axils, the 

 blades linear or linear-filiform, 3 to 10 lines long; herbage tomentose-canescent, 

 not glandular. 



Dry hills near the coast, 50 to 2000 feet : San Luis Obispo Co. to Los Angeles 

 Co.; Santa Barbara Islands. July-Dec. 



Locs. — San Luis Obispo, B. Gobi; Santa Monica, Barber 39; Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 

 Braunton 111; Echo Mt., San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 279; Santa Anita Canon, San Gabriel Mts., 

 J. T. Howell 3148; Santa Cruz Isl., Greene; Anacapa Isl., H. Hemphill. The above spms. repre- 

 sent the extreme form; a series of broader -leaved less canescent intermediates connects this spe- 

 cies with Z. californica. 



Kefs. — Zauschneria cana Greene, Pitt. 1:28 (1887), type loc. Santa Cruz Isl., Greene (vidi 

 typ.) ; Jepson, Man. 667 (1925). Z. californica var. viicrophylla Gray; B. & W. Bot. Cal. 1:218 

 (1876), type from S, Cal. Z. microphylla Moxley, Southwest Sci. Bull. 1:22 (1920). 



3. Z. latifolia Greene. Mountain Balsamea. Steins 4 to 14 inches high; 

 herbage green, thinly villous, often viscid ; leaf -blades ovate, oblong-ovate or ellip- 

 tical, usually rounded at base, commonly denticulate, lateral veining usually 

 evident, % to 1% inches long; flower above ovary 10 to 16 lines long. 



Rocky slopes and canons, 5000 to 8500 feet : coastal Southern California from 

 western Riverside Co. to northern Ventura Co. ; Sierra Nevada from Kern Co. to 

 Lassen Co.; North Coast Ranges from Mendocino Co. to Humboldt Co. East to 

 Nevada, north to Oregon. June-Sept. 



Locs.— Coastal S. Cal. : El Toro Peak, Santa Eosa Mt., Hall 763 ; Strawberry Valley, Mt. 

 San Jacinto, Hall 2503; Mt. San Gorgonio, Geo. B. Grant; Lake Arrowhead, San Bernardino 

 Mts., Braunton 1046; Swartout Canon, San Antonio Mts., Mum 7710; Mt. Gleason, San 

 Gabriel Mts., Barber 252; Alamos Mt., Ventura Co., Hall 6708. Tehachapi Mts.: Tehachapi, 

 Wolf 1684; Breckenridge Mt., Bauer 5. Sierra Nevada: Kern Canon, Tulare Co., Culbertson 

 4280; Aldler Creek, Kaweah Eiver, W. Fry 321; Sawmill Canon, w. Inyo Co., Peirson 759; Mt. 

 SUliman, Tulare Co., K, Brandegee; betw. Palisade Creek and Simpson Mdw., Fresno Co., E. Fer- 

 guson 521; McKinley Big Trees, A. L. Grant 1185; Shadow Lake, Middle Fork San Joaquin 

 Eiver, A. L. Grant 1565; Snow Creek, Yosemite, Jepson 4379; Iron Canon, Stanislaus Eiver, 

 W. J. Williamson 296; Glen Alpine, Eldorado Co., Abrams 12,724; Webber Peak, Sierra Co., 

 Lemmon; Indian Valley, Plumas Co., E. M. Aitstin 559; Susanville, Pearl Safford. North Coast 

 Eanges : Castle Peak, ne. Mendocino Co., Jepson 14,431 ; Trinity Summit, n. Humboldt Co., Tracy 

 5288. 



Var. tomentella Jepson. Herbage white-vUlous ; leaf-blades ovate to lanceolate, 8 to 15 

 lines long ; flower ab©5^ ovary 10 to 12 lines long. — Montane, 4000 to 9300 feet : Sierra Nevada 

 from Plumas Co. to Tulare Co. July-Oct. 



Locs. — Genesee Valley, Plumas Co., Jepson 8019; Eich Pt., Middle Fork Feather Eiver, 

 Jepson 10,607; Mt. Tallac, Lake Tahoe, Jepson 8131; Ebbetts Pass, Alpine Co., Brewer 2034; 

 Kennedy Mdw., Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 919; Yosemite, J. B. Lembert; Little Kern Eiver, 

 Tulare Co., Purpus 5226. 



Var. viscosa Jepson. Herbage extremely viscid; leaf -blades ovate, abruptly acute. — Dry 

 rocky slopes and ridges, 5000 to 8500 feet : San Gabriel and San Jacinto mountains. June-Sept, 



Locs.— Betw. Mt. Lowe and Mt. Wilson, Peirson 123 ; Ontario Peak, San Gabriel Mts., Mum 

 6088; Strawberry Valley, Mt. San Jacinto, Jepson 2325; betw. Fern Valley and Tahquitz, San 

 Jacinto Mts., Mum 6363. 



Eefs.— Zauschneria latifolia Greene, Pitt. 1:25 (1887); Jepson, Man. 667 (1925). Z. 

 californica var. latifolia Hook, Bot. Mag. t. 4493 (1850), type cult., loc. unknown, collector prob- 

 ably Mensies; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 327 (1901), ed. 2, 274 (1911). Z. glandulosa Moxley, 

 Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 15 :22 (1916), type loc. ridge s. of Strawberry Valley, San Jacinto Mts., W. W. 

 Swarth (Moxley's no, 460), Z. velutina Eastw, Southwest Sci. Bull. 1:25 (1920), type loc. Eus- 

 sian Eiver, n. of Cloverdale, Heller 5829, Z. elegans Eastw, Southwest Sci. Bull. 1:26 (1920), 



