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45. PRIMULACEAE (Primrose Family) 



Corolla lobes erect or spreading; stamens included. 



Corolla small and white, contracted at the throat; dwarf annual ..1. Androsace 

 Corolla larger (%-% inch long), red-purple, funnel form; perennial 2. Primula 



Corolla lobes reflexed; stamens exserted 3. Dodecatheon 



1. ANDROSACE 



1. Androsace septentrionalis var. subulifera Gray, Syn. Fl., vol. 

 2, pt. 1, p. 60. 1878. 



Type locality. — "Rocky Mountains near Boulder City, Colorado, 

 H. G. French. San Bernardino Coimty, California, Parry and Leni- 

 mon." 



Range. — Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast. 



Specimens eaximined. — Mt. Dana, in saddle, 11,600 feet, W. L. 

 Jepson 3306. 



Through the kindness of Dr. Jepson, I was able to examine this 

 interesting collection, the first of the species (and also of the genus) 

 so far made within our limits. It had before been collected in Califor- 

 nia in the San Bernardino Mountains, and in the White Mountains of 

 Inyo County {Shockley 452 at 13,000 feet). 



2. PRIMULA 



1. Primula suffrutescens Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 7, p. 37. 

 1867. 



Type locality. — "Sierra Nevada, on Silver Mountain, alt. 10,500 

 feet, near the snow. Brewer." 



Range. — Sierra Nevada, 



Zone. — Arctic-alpine. 



Specimens examined. — Plumas County, Mrs. Austin in 1878 ; Castle 

 Peak near the highest point, Heller 7096 ; same locality, Pringle, Sep- 

 tember 23, 1882; Cloud's Rest, 10,000 feet, A. Gray in 1872; Mt. Dana, 

 H. M. Evans, July, 1901; Mt. Gibbs, Yosemite, 12,200 feet. Smiley 

 781; Denel's Peak, Upper Kern River, 10,500-12,800 feet. Hall and 

 Babcock 5509 ; Mt. AVhitney, Culbertson (B 4524) ; Kaiser Peak, 

 Fresno County, 10,200 feet. Smiley 645; Whitney meadows, above 

 timber line on mountains north of meadows, Coville and Funston 1663 

 Sawtooth Peak, Tulare County, 12,000 feet. Hall and Babcock 5677 

 Black Peak, Kaweah Peaks, Tulare County, 12,000 feet, Dudley 2128 

 near top of Alta Peak, Tulare County, 11,000 feet, Dudley 1538 ; Fish- 

 erman's Peak (Old Mt. Whitney), 13,000 feet, Cowles 419; rocks on 

 slope of Mt. Kaweah, Tulare County, 12,000 feet, Dudley 2106. 



