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7. AQXnLEGIA 



Flowers pendulous at anthesis, red, with sometimes yellow centers. 



Blades of the petals much reduced or obsolete 1. A. truncata 



Blades of the petals obvious (^/4-% inch long) 2. A. formosa 



Flowers erect, sulphur-yellow (occasionally white or pinkish) ....3. A, pubescens 



1. Aquilegia truncata var. pauciflora Jepson, Fl. Calif., vol. 1, 



p. 517. 1914. 



A. pauciflora Greene, Leaflets, 176. 1904. 



Type locality. — Hockett's meadows," Tulare County. 



Range. — Sierra Nevada. 



Zone. — Canadian, rising locally into the Hudsonian. 



Specimens examined. — Pj'ramid Peak, Tahoe, 9,700 feet. Smiley 

 122 ; Castle Peak, 8,400 feet, Smiley 473 ; Mt. Rose, 9,500 feet, Heller 

 10336 ; near summit of Mt. Ralston, Talioe, 9,100 feet, Hall and Chand- 

 ler 4681 ; Lake Tenaya, Yosemite, Brewer 1694 ; Hockett 's meadows, 

 Tulare County, Culbertson (B4460); Silver Lake, Amador County, 

 7.200 feet, E. Mulliken 136; Porcupine Flat, Yosemite, 8,000 feet, 

 H. M. Evans, July, 1901. 



2. Aquilegia formosa Fisch., in DC, Prodr., vol. 1, p. 50. 1824. 

 A. Columbiana Kydb., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club; vol. 29, p. 145. 1902. 



Type locality. — ' ' In Kamchatka. ' ' 



Range. — Northwest coast from the Aleutian Islands to California 

 and Utah. 



Zone. — Transition and Canadian, or locally into the Hudsonian. 



Specimen examined. — Mono Pass, 10,000 feet, R. A. Ware 2736c. 



A. truncata and A. formosa constitute a pair of closely allied 

 species with so manj^ characters alike, the reduction of the petals in 

 A. truncata differing considerably', that Jones^"^ has proposed to 

 regard the first named species as a variety of A. formosa. 



3. Aquilegia pubescens Coville, Contr. Nat. Herb., vol. 4, p. 56. 



1893. 



Type locality. — "At an altitude of about 3,000 meters in the Sierra 

 Nevada, on a mountain-side north of the White Chief Mine, near Min- 

 eral King, Tulare County, California." 



Range. — Central and southern Sierra Nevada. 



Zone. — Arctic-alpine. 



Specimens examined. — Bloody Cailon, Mono County, Chesnut and 

 Drew, July 20, 1889; Mt. Dana, Congdon, August 10, 1898; Mono 

 Pass, Congdon, August 16, 1894 ; Mt. Goddard, Yosemite, 12,000 feet. 

 Hall and Chandler 671 ; Mt. Dana, 10,000 feet, Muir in 1873 ; Mono 



