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Professor Fernald informs me that my numbers, here referred to 

 T. spicatum, do not conform to that species, at least in its typical form, 

 nor are they in satisfactory agreement with the var. molle Gray (Man., 

 ed. 2, p. 572. 1856), a plant of eastern Canada and also found in the 

 northwest. The above specimens are here provisionally assigned 

 pending further study ; it may prove that our Californian material 

 will be found sufficientl}' distinct to justify separate recognition. 



3. Trisetum Congdoni Scribn. and Merr., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 

 vol. 29, p. 470. 1902. 



Type locality. — "Shadow Lake trail, Mariposa County, Califor- 

 nia." 



Range. — Sierra Nevada. 



Zone. — Arctic-alpine mainly, but occurring in the Hudsonian. 



Specimens examiyied. — Above Donner Lake toward Donner Pass, 

 Heller 7117 ; Placer County, A. M. Carpenter, August-October, 1892 ; 

 Mt. Rose, 10,000 feet, Kennedy 987 ; Desolation Valley, Tahoe, 8,600 

 feet, Smiley 342; Pyramid Peak, 10,020 feet, Hall and Chandler 4715; 

 Mt. Dana, 10,400 feet, just above timber line. Smiley 717 ; Mt. God- 

 dard, 11,000 feet. Hall and Chandler 709 ; east slope Cathedral Peak, 

 Yosemite, 10,300 feet. Smiley 812 ; soda springs of the San Joaquin, 

 Congdon, August 20, 1895, Farewell Gap, 11-12,000 feet, Purpus 

 5116; Sawtooth Peak, 12,100 feet, Hall and Babcock 5678; Alta 

 meadows, G. B. Grant 5338, 5339. 



Trisetum canesccns Buckl., a Transition species, is occasionally 

 collected in the boreal region of the Sierra (near White Wolf, 

 Yosemite, 8,100 feet. Smiley 889; Cisco, Miss H. A. Walker 1500). 



14. MELICA 



1. Melica stricta Bolander, Proc. Calif. Acad., vol. 3, p. 4. 1863. 



Type locality. — "Silver City, Nevada Territory." G. W. Dunn. 



Bangc. — Southeastern Oregon to southern California, east to Utah. 



Zone. — Canadian and Hudsonian. 



Specimens examined. — Plumas County, Mrs. Austin in 1878 ; Castle 

 Peak near the highest point. Heller 7076 ; rock crevices above Sum- 

 mit, 9,000 feet, Greene in 1874; Soda Springs, Nevada County, 8,000 

 feet, Jones 2479 ; Mt. Tallac, talus slope on east side, 9,000 feet, Smiley 

 228; Sonora Pass, 7-8,000 feet, Bolander 1921; Cloud's Rest sum- 

 mit, Chestnut and Drew, July 13, 1889 ; same locality, A. Gray in 

 1872 ; Snow Creek trail to Lake Tenaya, 7,100 feet. Smiley 665 ; rocky 

 mountain slopes on Little Kern River, 10-11,000 feet, Purpus 5112. 



