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Specimens examined. Independence Lake, Dudley, June 19, 1900 ; 

 Grass Lake, Tahoe, 7,200 feet, McGregor 89 ; near Glen Alpine Springs, 

 Tahoe, Miss Lathrop, July 19, 1909; Carson Spur, Alpine County, 

 8,500 feet, Hansen 581; Mt. Raymond, Madera County, in summit 

 rocks, 8,700 feet, Smiley 546* ; Long Lake, Plumas County, 6,700 feet, 

 Hall 9320*; Shuteye Mountain, Madera County, 7,900 feet, Smiley 

 562; South Fork of Kaweah River, Tulare County, 8,000 feet, Cul- 

 bertson (B4252). 



Unifolium lilaceum Greene (Pitt., vol. 1, p. 281. 1889), described 

 as "A species inhabiting the higher Sierra in California, extending 

 northward indefinitely, ' ' is unknown to me in authentic specimens : 

 Greene (I.e.} compares it to 8. sessilifolium, which he claims is con- 

 fined to the Coast Range, while Wooton and Standley (Contr. Nat. 

 Herb., vol. 19, p. 139. 1915) find no constant character by which it 

 may be distinguished from 8. stellata Desf. 



10. VEEATRUM 



1. Veratrum californicum Durand, Jour. Acad. Phila. II, vol. 3, 

 p. 103. 1855. 



V. speciosum Kydb., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 27, p. 531. 1900. 



Type locality. Not given; the type collected by Pratten near 

 Nevada City on Deer Creek. 



Range. Pacific Coast and northern Rockies, perhaps south to 

 Chihuahua. 



Zone. Transition and Canadian. 



Specim&ns examined. Plumas County, Mrs. R. M. Austin in 1878; 

 Mt. Rose, 10,000 feet, Kennedy 1194; about Marlette Lake, east of 

 Tahoe, 2460 m., Baker 1864 ; Silver Lake, Amador County, 7,200 feet, 

 E. Mulliken 134; Half-Moon Lake, Tahoe, 8,200 feet, Hall and Chand- 

 ler 4697; same locality, 7,760 feet, McGregor 50; high ridge above 

 Donner Pass, 8,000 feet, Heller 7177; Lake of the Woods meadow, 

 Tahoe, 8,100 feet, Smiley 67; Grizzly meadow, near Little Shuteye 

 Pass, Madera County, 6,000 feet, Abrams 4926 ; Summit, Mrs. Brande- 

 gee, July 15, 1908; Little Kern River, Tulare County, 8,500 feet, 

 Culbertson (B4322). 



* These collections represent a form in the higher mountains in which the 

 usual hispid pubescence is nearly or entirely wanting, but plants from intermediate 

 levels show all possible gradations between the extremes. 



