292 Setchell : Lycoperdon sculptum 



in the neighborhood of Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, at about 6,500 

 feet in 1901. They were so mature that they fell to pieces during 

 transportation to Berkeley. There is a specimen, somewhat im- 

 mature, collected by H. N. Bagley in June, 1902, at Tamarack 

 Flat, on the Big Oak Flat Road in Mariposa County, at an alti- 

 tude of 6,400 feet. Finally there have recently been added to 

 the herbarium specimens collected by Dr. H. M. Hall, at Bluff 

 Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains in July, 1908, at an alti- 

 tude of 8,300 feet. Besides these specimens in the herbarium of 

 the University of California, there are a few in other collections 



known to me. 



My 



page 203, 1904) that he had received a specimen from Professor 

 W. C. Blasdale collected near Lake Tahoe and that there is in the 

 herbarium at Kew, some ripe gleba sent by Harkness. The 

 specimens of Harkness were destroyed in the fire of April, 1906, 

 which destroyed as well the buildings and most of the collections 

 of the California Academy of Sciences. I learn from Mr. S. B. 

 Parish of San Bernardino, that he also collected a specimen at 

 Bluff Lake, the same locality whence Dr. Hall procured his speci- 

 mens, and sent it to the late A. P. Morgan, in whose collection I 

 presume that it may still be found. These are all the collections 

 known to me. 



In 1906, I published in the Sierra Club Bulletin (6: 39) a 

 popular description of this puff ball under the title of " The Sierran 

 Puff ball " and illustrated it with photographs. It was really an 

 appeal to members of the Sierra Club to note the occurrence and 

 report localities and altitudes at which they might find it. As a 

 response, several members of the Club have told me of specimens 

 seen and with sufficiently definite information as to appearance to 

 make it reasonably certain that it was this and no other species 

 observed. This information, with an item received before the pub- 

 lication of the article, I append as hearsay, but none the less, 

 credible evidence as to range in latitude and altitude. The late 

 Professor J. J. B. Argenti, of San Francisco, evidently found it at 

 Crane Flat, on the Big Oak Flat Road, at an altitude of 6,300 

 feet. Professor C. B. Bradley, of Berkeley, reports it from the 

 head of Bear Valley, in Alpine County, at an altitude of 6,500 

 feet. He found it in 1895. Mr. H. O. Wood, of Berkeley, 



