1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada, of California 299 



Fresno County, 8,500 feet, Smiley 597; Halsted meadow, region of 

 Mt. Silliman, Dudley 1461 ; basin of Upper Kern River, Tulare 

 County, 8,500 feet, Hall and Babcock 5633 ; wet meadows near Soda 

 Creek, Tulare County, 10-11,000 feet, Purpus 5214. 



3. SWEERTIA 



1. Sweertia perennis L. var. obtusa (Ledeb.) Griseb., in Hook., 

 Fl. Bor. Am., vol. 2, p. 66. 1838. 



S. obtusa Ledeb., Mem. Acad. St. Petersb., vol. 5, p. 526. 1812. 

 S. Covillei Greene, Leaflets, vol. 1, p. 77. 1904. 

 S. palustris A. Nels., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 28, p. 227. 1901. 

 S. congesta A. Nels. I.e. 



Type locality. "N.W. Coast." 



Range. Alaska southward through the mountains of British 

 Columbia and Idaho to Oregon and California ; in the Rockies to New 

 Mexico. Washington ? 



Zone. Canadian and Hudsonian. 



Specimens examined. Whitney meadows, Tulare County, 8,500 

 feet, Hall and Babcock 5492 ; Crabtree meadows, Tulare County, Cul- 

 bertson (B4553); same locality, 10,350 feet, H. M. and G. R, Hall 

 8449; Hockett's meadows, Tulare County, 8,500 feet, H. M. and 

 G. R, Hall 8473. 



Our Sierran material, and also the collections from the Rocky 

 Mountains seen by me, agree excellently with European specimens 

 and also with the plate in Fl. Danica (t. 2047) save in the broader, 

 more obtuse petals and the radical leaves more obtuse, differences 

 which seem to be distinctly of varietal rank. 



4. FRASERA 



Glands in pairs on each petal 1. F. speciosa 



Glands single on each petal 2. F. tubulosa 



1. Frasera speciosa Dougl., Griseb., in Hook., Fl. Bor. Am., vol. 2, 

 p. 66. 1838. 



Type locality. "On the low hills near Spokane and Salmon Rivers 

 and subalpine parts of the Blue Mountains, near the Kooskooka 

 River." 



Range. Eastern Washington to Wyoming and south to California 

 and New Mexico. 



Zone. Arid Transition and Canadian. 



