1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 317 



Specimens examined. — Camp Agassiz, near Glen Alpine, Tahoe, 

 Dudley, June 28, 1900; Pedlar, Amador County, 7,000 feet, Hansen 

 516 ; Cathedral trail to Mt. Tallac, Tahoe, 7,000 feet. Smiley 219. 



This species is common in the Sierra in the Yellow Pine belt; its 

 inclusion here is of doubtful propriety, the only reason being that it 

 is likely to be found in the Pinus ponderosa var. Jejfreyi division of 

 the Canadian zone. 



2. GREENEOCHARIS 



1. Greeneocharis circumscissa Rydb. (Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 

 35, p. 677. 1909), a small annual widely dispersed in the Great Basin 

 region from British Columbia to Lower California and growing 

 typically in the Upper Sonoran life-zone, appears to have a variant 

 in the boreal region of the Sierra, which was collected by Culhertson 

 (B 4243) on the trail to Mt. Whitney and has been described as the 

 var. hispida by Macbride.^-° The specimen has not been seen by me, 



3. LAPPULA 



Flowers white; corolla tube not exceeding the calyx 1. L. calif omica 



Flowers blue. 



Corolla tube shorter than the calyx lobes; nutlets prickly only on the mar- 

 gins; corolla rotate; plants gray 2. L. floribunda 



Corolla tube longer than the calyx lobes; nutlets prickly all over the backs 

 and margins; corolla open funnelform. 

 Plants green, the leaves harsh with seabrid pubescence; stems smooth and 



nearly glabrous 3. L. nervosa 



Plants grayish, the leaves and stems densely soft pubescent ...A. L. velutina 



3. LAPPULA 



1. Lappula californica Piper, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 29, p. 

 546. 1902. 



Type locality.— ''CaMornia: Mt. Shasta, 6,000 ft. alt., 23 August, 

 1881, Pringle." 



Range. — Mountains of northern California and through the Sierra 

 Nevada. 



Zone. — Transition, rising into the Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Vicinity of Glen Alpine, Tahoe, Reed and 

 Pendleton 276 ; near Snow Flat, Yosemite, H. M. Evans, July, 1901 ; 

 Hockett's meadows, Tulare County, Culbertson (B4471), the fruit 

 too immature for certain reference. 



