1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 281 



1. Drudeophytum dementis Jones, Contr. W. Coast Bot., vol. 14, 



p. 33. 1912. 



Type locality. ' ' On Mt. Whitney, Cal., alpine, also on Kearsarge 

 Pass." 



Range. Southern Sierra Nevada. 



Zone. Canadian and above. 



Specimens examined. Gravelly plains near Mt. Whitney, 11 

 13,000 feet, Purpus 1479; mountains between Soda Creek and Little 

 Kern River, 7-9,000 feet, Purpus 1769; Volcano meadows, Hall and 

 Babcoek 5469; Mt. Whitney, Culbertson (B4353); near Whitney 

 meadows (now called Volcano meadows), Tulare County, 2850 m., 

 Coville and Funston 1628. 



2. Drudeophytum vestitum (Wats.) Coult. and Rose, Contr. Nat. 



Herb., vol. 7, p. 83. 1900. 



Deweya vestita Wats., Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 17, p. 374. 188E. 

 Arracaoia vestita Wats., Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 22, p. 415. 1887. 

 Velaea vestita (Wats.) Coult. and Kose, Eev. N. Am. Umbell., p. 122. 

 1888. 



Type locality. "Summit of Mount Baldy, near San Bernardino, 

 California." 



Range. Mountains of southern California and extending north 

 into the southern Sierra Nevada. 



Specimens examined. Summit of Mt. Baldy, San Bernardino 

 Mountains, Parish brothers 598 ; Mt. San Antonio, 9,000 feet, Abrams 

 1934; Long meadow, Tulare County, 2,400-2,700 m., Palmer 193. 



Palmer's collection is not typical and perhaps future collections 

 'will show that true D. vestitum is restricted to the mountains south 

 of our limits, and that D. dementis is our single representative of the 

 genus. 



11. PODISTEEA 



1. Podistera nevadensis (Gray) Wats., Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 22, 



p. 475. 1887. 

 Cymopterus (?) nevadensis Gray, Proe. Am. Aead., vol. 6, p. 536. 1865. 



Type locality. "At and near the summit of Mount Dana," Cali- 

 fornia. 



Range. Mt. Dana and vicinity. 



Zone. Arctic-alpine. 



Specimens examined. Summit of Mt. Dana, Brewer 1739, 2717; 

 same locality, H. M. Evans, July, 1901 ; foot of Mt. Dana, Congdon, 



