78 University of California Publications in Botany [VOL. 9 



10. ATHYRIUM 



1. Athyrium alpestre (Hoppe) Kylands, in Moore, Ferns Gr. Br. 



Nat. Pr., vol. 1, t. 7. 1857. 

 Polypodium alpestre Hoppe, Tasehenb., p. 216. 1805. 



Type locality. European. 



Range. Holaretic and alpine ; in the mountains of North America 

 south to California and Montana. Also on Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec. 



Zone. Hudsonian and Arctic-alpine. 



Specimens examined. Near Tahoe, Brandegee, August, 1884; 

 Long Lake, Plumas County, 6,700 feet, Mrs. C. C. Hall 9341 ; ridge 

 south of Donner Pass, 7,500 feet, Heller 7186; Pyramid Peak, east 

 slope, 9,600 feet, Smiley 101; Devil's Gulch, Mariposa County, J. W. 

 Congdon, August, 1892; Heather Lake, Tahoe, Hall, July 28, 1910; 

 Sawtooth Peak, Tulare County, 11,500 feet, Culbertson (B4538). 



2. OPHIOGLOSSACEAE (ADDER'S TONGUE FAMILY) 

 1. BOTRYCHIUM 



Plant small (2-5 inches) ; vernation straight 1. B. simplex 



Plant large (1-2 feet); vernation inclined 2. B. calif ornicum 



1. Botrychium simplex var. compositum (Lasch) Milde, Fil. 



Europae et Atlantidis, p. 197. 1867. 

 B. Kanneribergii forma compositum Lasch., Bot. Ztg., vol. 14, p. 608. 1856. 



Type locality. Not given. 



Range. In North America from Nova Scotia to Alaska and south 

 to Maryland, Minnesota, Wyoming and California. Northern Europe. 



Zone. Hudsonian meadows. 



Specimens examined. Mt. Lyell, J. Muir in 1872 (said in Bot. 

 Calif., vol. 2, p. 331 to be from foot of Lyell Glacier) ; Cathedral Trail, 

 Tuolumne County, J. W. Congdon, August 7, 1898; Dana Fork 

 meadows, Yosemite, along the creek, 9,700 feet, Smiley 851; Kaweah 

 meadows, Tulare County, 9,300 feet, purpus 5046. 



Coville and Funston 1632 from Whitney meadows, Tulare County, 

 growing in granite sand, and also their number 1704 from North 

 Fork of the Kern River, have not been seen but are probably referable 

 to this variety. What I suspect to be the same plant was noted by 

 Miss Eastwood on Bubb's Creek. 89 



