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Silver Mountain, 11,000 feet. Brewer 2703; Mt. Surprise, Mariposa 

 County, Congdon, August 11, 1890. 



Perhaps most of our collections of this species are best referred 

 to var. nardifolia Kegel (Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc, vol. 35, p. 253. 1830), 

 which is distinguished by the acicular leaves curving, rather than 

 straight-leaved. 



4. STELLARIA 



Bracts of the inflorescence small and scarious. 



Petals minute or none; flowers in umbels 1. S. umbellata 



Petals longer than the sepals; flowers in terminal cymes (sometimes solitary, 



the flower then long pedicelled) 2. S. longipes 



Bracts of the inflorescence leafy. 



Leaves lanceolate; flowers cymose 3. S. borealis 



Leaves ovate, usually crisped on the margins; flowers on long pedicels in 

 the leaf axils 4. S. crispa 



1. Stellaria umbellata Turcz., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc, p. 89. 1838 



(name only) ; vol. 15, p. 173. 1842, for description. 



Alsine haiealensis Coville, Contr. Nat. Herb., vol. 4, p. 70. 1893. 



Type locality. — ' ' In alpe Nuchu-Daban, ' ' Siberia. 



Range. — Rocky Mountains from Montana to New Mexico, west to 

 Oregon and California. San Francisco Mountains, Arizona. 



Zone. — Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Peregoys above Yosemite, A. Gray in 1872; 

 soda springs of the Tuolumne, Yosemite, Congdon, August 15, 1894; 

 Tuolumne meadows, Yosemite, 8,500 feet, Smiley 736. 



Coville {I.e.) reports this rare species from near Mineral King, 

 Tulare County. 



2. Stellaria longipes Goldie, Edinb. Phil. Jour., vol. 6, p. 327. 



1822. 



Type locality. — ''Woods near Lake Ontario, Canada." 



Range. — Ontario to Alaska, south to New Mexico and California. 



Zone. — -Transition, rising into the Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Plimias County, Mrs. Austin in 1876 ; Pere- 

 goy 's, Yosemite, A. Gray in 1872 ; near Lake Tenaya, 8,000 feet. Smiley 

 700; Twin Lakes, Alpine County, Hansen 282; subalpine meadows, 

 Mariposa County, Congdon, May, 1888 ; Tioga Road near Aspen val- 

 ley, Yosemite, 6,400 feet. Smiley 906 ; Rowell meadow, Fresno County, 

 Dudley, August 23, 1904; Pitman Creek, Fresno County, 7,000 feet, 

 Smiley 599 ; Whitney meadows, Tulare County, Coville and Funston 

 1674 ; trail to Mt. Whitney, Culbertson (B 4370) ; South Fork of Kern 

 River, Rothrock 310. 



