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Specimen examined. — Top of Mt. Moses, Tulare County, 9-10,000 

 feet, Purpus 1340. 



Coville {I.e.) reports this from above timber line near the White 

 Chief Mine, above Mineral King, Tulare County, 



2. Dicentra uniflora Kellogg, Proe. Calif. Acad., vol. 4, p. 141. 



1871. 



Bikukulla uniflora (Kell.) Howell, Fl. N.W. Am., vol. 1, p. 34. 1897. 



Type locality. — ''At Cisco and the summit of the Sierra Nevada 

 mountains on the line of the Central Pacific Railroad. ' ' 



Range. — California to Washington, east to Utah and Wyoming. 



Zone. — Canadian and above. 



Specimens examined. — Above Independence Lake, Sierra County, 

 8,000 feet. Hall and Babcock 4536 ; Cisco, Kellogg and Harford in 

 1870 ; Sierra Valley, Lemmon in 1873 ; Angora Lake and Mt. Tallac, 

 8,000-8,500 feet, M. S. Baker, July 11, 1904; Elizabeth Lake, Yosemite, 

 edge of snow bank near water, 9,800 feet, Smiley 807a. 



Dr. Jepson (Sierra Bull., vol. 8, pp. 266-269. 1912) found this 

 on Macomb Ridge, northea.st of Yosemite, at 9,400-9,700 feet. 



3. Dicentra formosa Walp., Repert. Bot., vol. 1, p. 118. 1842. 



Fumaria formosa Andr., Bot. Rep., vol. 6, pi. 393. 1804. 

 Dielytra formosa DC, Syst., vol. 2, p. 109. 1821. 

 Dielytra formosa G. Don, Hist. Dichl. PI., vol. 1, p. 140. 1831. 

 Dielytra sacaita Nutt., in T. and G., Fl., vol. 1, p. 67. 1838. 

 Corydalis formosa Spreng., Syst., vol. 3, p. 162. 1826. 



Type locality. — Unknown ; described from plants raised from seed. 



Range. — Pacific Coast region. 



Zone. — Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Alta meadows, Tulare County, Mrs. Brande- 

 gee, August 5, 1905 ; slope of Alta Peak, ' ' one of the commonest 

 plants," Dudley 1551; Hockett's meadows, Dudley 1886; vicinity of 

 Mineral King, 7,800 feet, damp places in shade. Hall and Babcock 

 5705 ; Sierra Nevada, 9,000 feet. Brewer 2793. 



The collection by Brewer last cited presents a plant with divergent 

 characters of foliage and flowers ; the leaf segments are ver^^ narrow, 

 incised, the serrations sharply pointed; the petals are not cordate as 

 in the typical form. 



