1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 239 



lla. Potentilla glandulosa Lindl. f. Hanseni Wolfe, Bibl. Bot., 



vol. 71, p. 136. 1908. 

 Potentilla Hanseni Greene, Pitt., vol. 3, p. 20. 1896. 



Type locality. No exact locality given. 



Range. Central and southern Sierra Nevada. 



Zone. Canadian mainly. 



Specimens examined. Head of Tuolumne Eiver, 9,000 feet, 

 Brewer 1767 ; soda springs of the Tuolumne, 8,700 feet, Brewer 1705, 

 1714; same locality, 8,600 feet, R. A. Ware 2686c, 2637c; Black Peak 

 west of Home Camp meadow, Fresno County, 7,800 feet, Smiley 657 ; 

 Hockett's meadows, Tulare County, Culbertson (B4469). 



Stems and leaves less glandular than the preceding variety. 



12. Potentilla lactea Greene, Pitt., vol. 3, p. 20. 1896. 

 P. glandulosa var. lactea Greene, Fl. Fran., p. 65. 1891. 



Type locality. ' ' Higher elevations in Fresno and Kern counties. ' ' 



Range. Central and southern Sierra Nevada. 



Specimens examined. Tuolumne meadows, Yosemite, 8,500 feet, 

 dry ground near Parsons Lodge, Smiley 833 ; Crabtree meadow, Upper 

 Kern River, 10,350 feet, H. M. and G. R. Hall 8448 ; Sawtooth Peak, 

 Tulare County, 11,000 feet, Hall and Babcock 5686. 



13. Potentilla palustris (L.) Scop., Fl. Cam., ed. 2, vol. 1, p. 359. 



1772. 

 Comarum palustre L., Sp. PI., p. 502. 1753. 



Type locality. European. 



Range. Holarctic realm ; in America from subarctic regions south 

 to New Jersey, Great Lakes, Iowa, Wyoming, and California. 



Zone. Transition mainly, rising into the Canadian. 



Specimens examined. Sierra County, Lemmon 1034; Lake Tahoe, 

 Lemmon. 



Although mainly if not in our region exclusively a transition plant, 

 this species is here included because it without doubt belongs to the 

 glacial flora. 



