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86 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
1896, Leiberg 2328 (U. S. Nat. Herb.); Strawberry Butte, 
Blue Mountains, above timber line, alt. 2665-2770 m., 13 July, 
1896, Coville 562 (U. S. Nat. Herb.) ; hills, Malheur Co., June, 
1897, Cusick 1626 (Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.); without definite 
locality, coll. of 1897, Sheldon 8227, 8403 (U. S. Nat. Herb.) ; 
Stein's Mountains, 30 June, 1898, Cusick 2188 (Gray Herb., 
U. S. Nat. Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; in pumice field 
at the Palisades, Crater Lake National Park, 4 Sept., 1902, 
Coville 1476 (U. S. Nat. Herb.) ; on rocky ledges, Pilot Butte, 
Crook Co., 19 June, 1905, E. Nelson 856 (Mo. Bot. Gard. 
Herb.); dry sagebrush land, vicinity of Laidlaw, Crook Co., 
10 July, 1906, Whited 3058 (U. S. Nat. Herb.) ; Forked Horn 
Butte, 2 June, 1907, Whited (U. S. Nat. Herb. No. 620384) ; 
abundant on outskirts of open yellow pine forests, Billy 
Meadows, Wallowa National Forest, 7 Aug., 1908, James T. 
Jardine 345 (U. S. Nat. Herb.) ; common on the desert, near 
Laidlaw, 15 June, 1912, Whited A54 (U. S. Nat. Herb.). 
Nevada: Summit Lake Region, July, 1901, Griffiths € Mor- 
ris 319 (U. S. Nat. Herb.); Clover Mountain Range, near 
Deeth, Elko Co., alt. 2070 m., 22 July, 1908, Heller 9101 (U. S. 
Nat. Herb., Phil. Acad. Nat. Sei. Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. 
Herb.) ; moist ravine, Bunker Hill, Toiyabe Forest, alt. 2250- 
3400 m., Hitchcock 854 (U. S. Nat. Herb.); Bunker Hill, 
Toiyabe Range, Lander Co., alt. 3200 m., 29 July, 1913, Ken- 
nedy 4086 (Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; dry hill, Pine Mountain, 
vieinity of Gold Creek, 7 Aug., 1913, Hitchcock 1102 (U. S. 
Nat. Herb.); Ruby Mountains, near Blaine Post-office, alt. 
2710 m., 22 Aug., 1913, Heller 11097 (Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 
California: Modoc Co., July, 1885, Mrs. В. M. Austin (U. 
S. Nat. Herb. No. 310576) ; White Mountains, Mono Co., alt. 
3655 m., 19 Aug., 1888, Shockley 598 (Gray Herb.) ; on rocky 
ridge at Castle Peak, (?) Mono Co., alt. 2740 m., 7 Aug., 1900, 
Leiberg 5292 (U. S. Nat. Herb. No. 610540). 
Var. lithophilus Greenm. Bot. Gaz. 48 : 148. 1909. 
S. aureus var. borealis Torr. Bot. Wilkes’ U. S. Expl. Exp. 
307. 1874, not Torr. & Gray. 
Stems 1 to 3 dm. high, erect or ascending; basal and lower 
stem-leaves subovate to oblanceolate, including the petiole 1.5 
