1921] Snviley: Fiord of the Sierra Nevada of California 227 



Specimens examined. Mt. Rose, 9,000 feet, Kennedy 1269; Slide 

 Mountain, Washoe County, 8,600 feet, Heller 10957; Snow Valley, 

 Ormsby County, 2,460-2,615 m., Baker 1150; Summit, 7,000 feet, 

 Bolander, Kellogg and Co.; same locality, Heller 7008; ridge below 

 Lake Lucile, Tahoe, Dudley, June 26, 1900 ; between Suzy and Heather 

 Lakes, Tahoe, 7,800 feet, Smiley 160; Half -Moon Lake, Tahoe, 7,760 

 feet, McGregor 55 ; Mt. Tallac, Tahoe, talus rock, 9,500 feet, Smiley 

 249, 250; same locality, 8,500 feet, Abrams 4821; summit of Mono 

 Pass, 8,300 feet, Brewer 1722 ; Cars.on Spur, Alpine County, 8,500 feet, 

 Hansen 792 ; Lake Tenaya, 8,000 feet, Brewer 1686 ; east slope Unicorn 

 Peak, Yosemite, 10,100 feet, Smiley 809 ; Mt. Lyell, 10,500-11,000 feet, 

 Hall and Babcock 3564; Mt. Goddard, 11,100 feet, Hall and Chandler 

 680 ; pine forest between Lake Tenaya and Tuolumne meadows, 9,600 

 feet, R. A. Ware 2679c; Hockett's meadows, Tulare County, Dudley, 

 June 4, 1902; slope of Mt. Silliman, 10-11,000 feet, Dudley 1486; 

 Olancha Mountain, Tulare County, 10,000 feet, in forest of Pinus Bal- 

 fouriana, Hall and Babcock 5260. 



7. Ribes hirtellum var. inerme (Rydb.) comb. nov. 



E. inerme Kydb., Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard., voL 1, p. 202. 1900. 



Type locality. "Slough Creek," Montana. 



Range. British Columbia to Montana and south to California 

 (northern Sierra Nevada), Utah, and New Mexico. 



Zone. Transition and Canadian (Lower). 



Specimens examined. Sierra County, Lemmon 803^ ; Deer Park, 

 Tahoe, Miss H. D. Geiss 50 ; Plumas County, Mrs. Austin, June 1878 ; 

 about Marlette Lake, east of Lake Tahoe, 2,460 m., Baker 1301 ; Upper 

 Tuolumne River, 9,000 feet, Brewer 1756; Mineral King, 7,200 feet, 

 Culbertson (B4559). 



This plant is the western representative of that group of northern 

 gooseberries centering about R. oxyacanthoides (L.) Mill of the Hud- 

 son Bay region ; this has as its best defined species in northeastern 

 North America R. hirtellum Michx., one form of which (R. saxosum 

 Hook.) is scarcely separable from our western plant; see Fernald. 111 



Ribes lacustre (Pers.) Poir, a species ranging through subarctic 

 North America and extending southward in the west as a subalpine 

 species in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado and Utah, in the Cascades 

 to the mountains of Siskiyou County, is not known from the Sierra 

 Nevada. 



