1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 297 



Specimens examined. — Pluinas County, 6,500 feet, Mrs. R. M. 

 Austin in 1878; Sierra Nevada above Summit Valley, 8,000 feet, 

 Pringle, September 21, 1882; Mt. Tallac, Talioe, 9,500 feet. Smiley 

 366; Glen Alpine, Tahoe, 7,000 feet, McGregor 168; Carson Spur, 

 Alpine County, 8,500 feet, Hansen 709 ; mountains west of Lake Tahoe, 

 Brandegee, September, 1883; Mineral King, Tulare County, Dudley 

 2613; top of Monarch Creek trail, Tulare County, 11-12,000 feet, 

 Dudley 1594 ; meadows near Farewell Gap, Tulare County, 10-11,000 

 feet, Purpus 5228 ; Little Kern River, 8,500 feet, Culbertson (B 4398) ; 

 Squaw Valley, Forest Hill Pass, 8,800 feet. Brewer 2664. 



3. Gentiana amarella L. var. acuta (Michx.), Herder, Acta Hort. 

 Petrop., vol. 1, p. 428. 1872. 



G. acuta Michx., FL, vol. 1, p. 177. 1803. 



G. pleieja Cham., in Bunge, Conspect. Gen. Gent., p. 54. 1824.* 



Type locality. — "In altis montibus Carolinae et in Canada, prope 

 Tadoussack. ' ' 



Range. — Subarctic America south to northern New England, Min- 

 nesota, North Dakota, New Mexico, and California. 



-^(me.— Transition and Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Plumas County, 6,500 feet, Mrs. Austin in 

 1878; Sierra County, Lemmon 746; Tuolumne River, Bolander in 

 1866 ; vicinity of Mineral King, 7,800 feet. Hall and Babcock 5646 ; 

 Soda Springs, southern Sierras, Brewer 2848 ; Whitney meadows, 

 Tulare County, Purpus 1632. 



Wettsteint proposes to maintain G. acuta Michx. separate from 

 the Old World species and to consider G. pleheja Cham, as a subspecies 

 with a range confined to the Cordilleran section of North America 

 and westward; as an example of this subspecies he cites Bolander 

 5045 from the Tuolumne River. I have not seen a sheet with this 

 number upon it, but assume that the collection by Bolander from 

 the Tuolumne River cited above is of the same collection and exam- 

 ination fails to show any convincing reason for contrasting it with the 

 other specimens of var. acuta from the Sierra or of the north and east. 



* Dr. Greene, in Leaflets vol. 1, characterizes the f ollomng synonyms : aniso- 

 sepala (p. 53); Macounii (p. 54); scopulorum (p. 55); Californica (p. 54), all 

 in 1904. 



t Die nordamerikanischen Arten d. Gattung Gentiana, sect. Endotr. ; Oestr. 

 Bot. Zeitschrift, vol. 50, p. 195. 1900, 



