1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 131 



Nellie Lake, Fresno County, 9,000 feet. Smiley 613 ; Tulare County, 

 Coville and Funston 1563. 



The very dwarf var. humilis Engelm. (Trans. St. Louis Acad., 

 vol. 2, p. 445. 1866) described from Mt. Shasta, is not known from 

 the Sierra. Buchenau (Pflanzeur., Bd. 4, Heft 36, p. 143) considers 

 it a mere depauperate form — ' ' Vix varietas, sed forma parva. ' ' 



3. Juncus Parryi Engelm., Trans. St. Louis Acad., vol. 2, p. 446. 



1866. 



Type locality. — "On the western and north-western mountains" 

 (described from Colorado specimens). 



Range. — Southern Alaska (Juneau) to mountains of southern 

 California and in the Rockies to Colorado. 



Zone. — Arctic-alpine, sometimes in Hudsonian. 



Specimens examined. — High mountain near Donner Pass, Torrey 

 536; Bierstadt Peak, Tahoe, Davy 3220; Pyramid Peak at summit, 

 Tahoe, 10,020 feet and at 9,600 feet. Hall and Chandler 4717 ; Deso- 

 lation Valley, Tahoe, 8,500 feet. Smiley 339 ; Elizabeth Lake, Yosemite, 

 rocky ravine south of the meadow, 9,900 feet. Smiley 805 ; Black Moun- 

 tain, meadows, Fresno County, 10,000 feet. Hall and Chandler 608; 

 Sawtooth Peak, Tulare County, 11,000 feet. Hall and Babcock 5689 ; 

 basin of Upper Kern River near Langley's Camp, 11,800 feet. Hall 

 and Babcock 5544. 



Parish^'-' reports this as having been collected on the summit of 

 Mt. Grayback, San Bernardino Mountains, at 11,485 feet, the southern 

 limit so far as known. 



4. Juncus obtusatus Engelm., Trans. St. Louis Acad., vol. 2, p. 



495. 1868. 



Type locality.— ''ISle&r the Big Tree Grove, Mariposa, California, 

 growing in large tufts, 2-3 feet in diameter on the sandy banks of 

 the streamlets, alt. 6,500 feet." Bolander. 



Range. — Sierran region, perhaps in the mountains of southern 

 California. 



Zone. — Transition, entering Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Near Big Tree Grove, Bolander; Sierra 

 Buttes, 6,000 feet, at Lower Sardine Lake, Hall and Babcock 4489, 

 doubtfully referred; Yosemite, J. Muir in 1875; Porcupine Flat, 

 Yosemite, 8,000 feet, R. A. Ware 2735c; soda springs of Tuolumne, 

 Congdon, August 15, 1894; Little Yosemite, on Merced River, 6,700 

 feet, R. A. Ware 2708c. 



