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Specimens examined. — Faith Valley, Alpine County, 8,000 feet, 

 Hansen 595 ; Charity Valley, Alpine County, G. Hansen in 1892 ; soda 

 springs of the Tuolumne River, Yosemite, Brewer 1703, 6361 ; South 

 Fork of the San Joaquin, 9,000 feet, Hall and Chandler 716. 



2. Frasera tubulosa Coville, Proc. Biol. Soe. "Wash., vol. 7, p. 71. 

 1892. 



Type locality. — "In dry soil under Pinus Jeffreyi in the northeast 

 corner of the enclosure at So'da Springs, on the north fork of Kern 

 River, Sierra Nevada, Tulare County, California. 



Range. — Southern Sierra Nevada. 



Zone. — Transition and lower Canadian. 



Specimens ex-amined. — Soda Springs, type locality, 6,300 feet. Hall 

 and Babcock 5412 ; Mt. Olancha, open forest of P. Jeffreyi, 8,500 feet. 

 Hall and Babcock 5271; Kern River, Culbertson (B 4329). 



47. APOCYNACEAE (Dogbane Family) 



Corolla funnel form, i/^-% inch long, rose-purple; style long filiform; leaves 

 long petioled 1. Cycladenia 



Corolla campanulate, i/4-% inch long; pink or nearly white; style wanting; 

 leaves short petioled 2. Apocynum 



1. CYCLADENIA 



1. Cycladenia humilis Benth., PL Hartw., p. 323. 1850. 



Type locality. — "In montibus Sacramento." 



Range. — Inner side of the North Coast Ranges, about Mt. Shasta, 

 and in the northern Sierra Nevada. 



Zone. — Canadian ? 



Specimen ecoamined. — Mt. Dyer, Mrs. R. M. Austin, July, 1879. 



The var. tomentosa Gray (Syn. Fl., vol. 2, pt. 1, suppl., p. 400, 

 1886), present in the Upper Sonoran and Transition life-zones, has 

 a range extending across the Great Basin into southern Utah. 



2. APOCYNUM 



1. Apocynum androsaemifolium L. var. pumilum Gray, Syn. FL, 



vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 83. 1878. 



A. cardiophyllum Greene, Leaflets, vol. 1, p. 79. 1904. 



A. Mcolor McGregor, Bull. Torr., Bot. Club, vol. 37, p. 261. 1910. 



Type locality. — Not precisely given. 



Range. — British Columbia to southern California. 



Zone. — Transition mainly, just entering the Canadian. 



