1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 329 



3. CoUinsia Wrightii Wats., Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 24, p. 84. 1889. 



Type locality. — "On the Greenhorn Mountains, Kern County, 

 California, at 6,000 to 7,000 feet altitude." 



Range. — Sierra Nevada. 



Zone. — Transition mainly, rising into the Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Head of Fordyce Creek, Placer County, 

 6,910 feet. Hall 8724; Suzy Lake Basin, Tahoe, 7,600 feet, Smiley 

 144a; Tuolumne meadows, Yosemite, dry open pine forest, 8,600 feet, 

 R. A. Ware 2615c, 2630c; same locality, in forest of P. Murrayana, 

 8,600 feet. Smiley 827; near Round meadow, Fresno County, 7,200 

 feet, dry gravelly soil. Smiley 582 ; trail to Farewell Gap from Mineral 

 King, Tulare County, Coville and Funston 1566. 



3. VERONICA 



Inflorescence viscid pubescent; leaves obtuse; style % inch long....l. V. humifusa 



Inflorescence not viscid pubescent, but hairy; leaves acute; style much shorter, 



only about % as long as in No. 1 2. V. alpina var. unalaschensis 



1. Veronica humifusa Dickson, Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. 2, p. 288. 

 1794. 

 V. serpyUifoIia var. humifusa Hook., Fl. Bor. Am., vol. 2, p. 101. 1838. 



Type locality. — ^"Upon very high mountains, and under wet shady 

 rocks" in Scotland. 



Range.— In North America from the subarctic regions south to 

 northern New England, New York; in the west, in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains as far south as Colorado, and in the Cascade-Sierra axis, to 

 California. 



Zone. — Canadian mainly. 



Specimens examined. — Suzy Lake, Tahoe, 7,600 feet, McGregor 

 121; Caple's Lakes, Alpine County, 8,500 feet, Hansen 547; Glen 

 Alpine, Tahoe, 6,900 feet. Smiley 333 ; near Lily Lake, Tahoe, 6,600 

 feet. Smiley 297 ; Snow Valley, Ormsby County, Nevada, 2,460-2,615 

 m.. Baker 1160; near Cloud's Rest, Yosemite, E. R. Drew, July 25, 

 1887; Tuolumne meadows, Yosemite, open grassy ground, 8,600 feet, 

 R. A. Ware 2687c; Round meadow, Fresno County, 7,000 feet. Smiley 

 575; Volcano meadows (formerly called Whitney meadows), Tulare 

 County, Hall and Babcock 5485. 



