1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 193 



Pass, 11,000 feet, Bolander 6263 ; Kaiser Peak, Fresno County, 10,100 

 feet, Smiley 641 ; near Mineral King, 10,500 feet, J. W. Wright, July 

 27, 1880; Kern-Kaweah Pass, 9-10,000 feet, Dudley 2376; Roekslide 

 Lake, Kaweah Peaks, 10-11,000 feet, Dudley 2377; Farewell Gap, 

 Tulare County, A. Eastwood, July 19, 1903 ; Alta meadows, Tulare 

 County, R. Hopping 520 ; just north of the summit of Farewell Gap, 

 Tulare County, 10,300 feet, Dudley 1130 ; Olancha Mountain, Tulare 

 County, 11,000 feet, Hall and Babcock 5230. 



This species is related to A. chrysantha Gray and A, coerulea James 

 of the high Colorado mountains and represents these species in the 

 alpine flora of the coast. 



8. ACTAEA 



1. Actaea spicata var. arguta Torr., Pac. R.R. Rep., vol. 4, p. 63. 

 1856. 

 A. arguta Nutt, in T. and G., Fl., vol. 1, p. 35. 18381 

 A. ehurnea Rydb., Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard., vol. 1, p. 53. 1900. 



Type locality. — "Woods of the Oregon and its tributary streams." 

 Nuttall. 



Range. — ^Alaska to southern California, east to Alberta and Colo- 

 rado. 



Zone. — Transition and lower Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Glen Alpine, Tahoe, 6,800 feet, McGregor 

 171 ; hillside near Tallac, Tahoe, 6,300 feet. Smiley 139 ; near Whitney 

 meadows, now called Volcano meadows, Tulare County, Coville and 

 Funston 1706 ; Sequoia National Park, A. Davidson 1965. 



I am in doubt if this should be included in this list, since it appears 

 so rarely within our borders and is not common anywhere in the 

 Sierra. 



9. PAEONIA 



1. Paeonia Brownii Dougl., in Hook., Fl. Bor. Am., vol. 1, p. 27. 

 1829. 



Type locality. — "Near the confines of perpetual snow, on the sub- 

 alpine range of Mt. Hood, Northwest America." 



Range. — British Columbia and northern Idaho south to Utah and 

 California in both the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Range. 



Zone. — Transition and Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Jameson Creek, Plumas County, 6,300 feet, 

 Hall 9307 ; Nevada County, along base of ridge between Donner Lake 

 and Coldstream, Heller 6954 ; near Mt. Lola, Tahoe, Dudley, June 19, 

 1900 ; near Donner Lake, Dudlej^, June 7, 1893. 



