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at 9,000 feet, Heller 10938 ; Marlette Lake, east of Lake Tahoe, 8,100 

 feet. Hall and Chandler 4592 ; base of Cathedral Peak, above Tuolumne 

 meadows, 9,100 feet. Smiley 819 ; Kaiser Crest, Fresno County, form- 

 ing dense thickets at 9,500 feet, Smiley 633 ; slopes near Farewell Gap, 

 Tulare County, 10-11,000 feet, Purpus 1830; Salmon Creek, Tulare 

 County, 7,500 feet. Hall and Babcock 5143 ; Lower Bear-paw meadow, 

 Kaweah River region, R. Hopping 51 ; Olancha Mountain, above 

 timber-line, 11-12,000 feet. Hall and Babcock 5227 ; head of Tuolumne 

 River, 9,000 feet. Brewer 1769 ; summit of Sonora Pass, Brewer 1906 ; 

 along west trail, Mt. Whitney, 12,300 feet, Hall and Babcock 5539 ; 

 slope of Mt. Kaweah, high as any shrub grows, above 14,000 feet, 

 short thick branches, leaves I/2 cm. across, very glandular, Dudley 

 2102; Mt. Whitney, Culbertson (B4525). 



At the highest elevations of its growth, near or even above timber- 

 line, the branchlets become extremely short and rigid and here the 

 bushes grow close together in dense chaparral ; it is this form that 

 has been described as R. Churchii; see Coville's note on the appear- 

 ance of this shrub near timber line in the Mineral King country.^" 

 Merriam^^ says that on Mt. Shasta it grows at the head of Panther 

 Creek near timber line and also much lower down. 



2. Ribes nevadense Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad., vol. 1, p. 63. 1855. 



E. sanguin-eum var. variegatum Wats., Bot. King's Exped., p. 100. 1871. 



B. variegatum A. Nels., Key Eocky Mt. Reg., p. 34. 1902. 



B. asceyidens Eastw., Proc. Calif. Acad. Ill, Bot., vol. 2, p. 244. 1902. 



B. HittelUanum Eastw., l.c., p. 245. 



B. glaucescens Eastw., I.e., p. 245. 



B. Grantii Heller, Muhl., vol. 4, p. 27. 1908. 



Type locality. — Not given. 



Range. — Southern Cascades of Oregon through the Sierra Nevada 

 to the mountains of southern California. 



Zmie. — Transition mainly, but not infrequently rising into the 

 Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — (Citation confined to stations within the 

 boreal region) : Suzy Lake trail, Eldorado County, 7,600 feet, Mc- 

 Gregor 120 ; Suzy Lake, Tahoe, 7,300 feet. Smiley 196 ; between Lakes 

 Tahoe and Lucile, 7-8,000 feet. Miss K. A. Chandler, September, 1901 ; 

 Angora Lake, Tahoe, M. S. Baker, July 5, 1904; Tioga Road near 

 Dark Hole, Yosemite, 7,700 feet. Smiley 878. 



