1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of Calif orma 303 



1. Gilia leptalea (Gray) Greene, Erythea, vol. 4, p. 58. 1896. 

 Collomia leptalea Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 8, p. 261. 1870. 



Type locality. — "California, in the Sierra and foothills, from 

 Plumas to Mariposa County. ' ' 



Range. — California and Oregon. 



Zone. — Transition and, as a depauperate, in the Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Hills above Red Clover Valley, Plumas 

 County, Heller and Kennedy 8710 ; lower end of Donner Lake, Heller 

 6868; Tallac, Tahoe, 6,300 feet. Smiley 135; Glen Alpine, W. A. 

 Setchell, July 14, 1901; Camp Agassiz, near Glen Alpine, Dudley, 

 June 28, 1900 ; near White Wolf, Yosemite, H. M. Evans, July, 1901 ; 

 between Lake Tenaya and Tuolumne meadows, Yosemite, 8,300 feet. 

 Smiley 703; Tuolumne meadows, foot of Lambert's Dome, 8,500 feet, 

 Smiley 756 ; Tuolumne meadows, 8,600 feet, F. M. Reed 3561 ; Eagle 

 Peak trail, Yosemite, E. B. Babcock, June 26, 1912; Pedlar, Amador 

 County, 7,000 feet, Hansen 704. 



2. Gilia capillaris Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad., vol. 5, p. 46. 1873. 

 Type locality.— "Chco, C. P. R.R., Sierra Nevada Mountains." 

 Range. — Washington to California ; Idaho. 



Zone. — Transition and Canadian. 



Specim-ens examined. — Gold Lake, Sierra County, 6,400 feet, Hall 

 and Babcock 4498; Mt. Stanford (Castle Peak), Hooker and Gray 

 in 1877 ; Cisco, 1850 m., Mrs. C. C. Hall 8710 ; dry hillside above Soda 

 Springs, 7,200 feet. Smiley 457; Half-Moon Lake, Tahoe, McGregor 

 76; Tuolumne meadows, Yosemite, 8,500 feet. Smiley 742; Hockett's 

 Meadows, Tulare County, 8,500 feet. Hall and Babcock 5628. 



Gilia siibalpina Greene {in Brand, Pflanzenr., Bd. 4, Heft 27, 

 s. 98. 1907) though compared to G. leptalea in the description ("Fast 

 stets in Begleitung der vorigen Art {leptalea), aber in hoheren Lagen, 

 von 2000-3000 m. Calif ornien : Nevada Co.: Uber dem Donner-See"), 

 is more like our No. 2. The validity of the species cannot now be 

 determined : certainly the critical character assigned to distinguish it 

 from G. leptalea — less number of ovules — cannot be depended upon. 



3. Gilia aggregata (Pursh.) Spreng., Syst., vol. 1, p. 626. 1825. 



Cantua aggregata Pursh, Fl., vol. 1, p. 147. 1814.* 

 Tijpe locality. — Said in description to be from "the banks of the 

 Mississippi," but the type actually collected in Idaho. 



* For inclusive synonymy see Brand, A., Pflanzenreich, Bd. 4, Heft 250. 1907. 



