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Zone. In the Sierra Nevada, this subspecies is restricted to the 

 Arctic-alpine, but the type (Cusick 869) came from the Arid Tran- 

 sition (if the type collection was actually made at Camp Harney). 



Specimens examined. Castle Peak, near the highest point, 9,000 

 feet, Heller 7100 ; highest point of Sierra Nevada above Donner Lake 

 on barren stony summit, 10,000 feet, E. L. Greene 478 ; near Squaw 

 Peak, Placer County, C. J. Fox Jr., July, 1895 ; Silver Mountain, dry 

 soil at summit, 11,000 feet, Brewer 2055; summit between Tinker's 

 Knob and Devil's Cliff, Tahoe, Kennedy and Doten 279; Rubicon 

 Peak, Tahoe, in summit rocks, 9,100 feet, Smiley 409; loose dry soil 

 at Sonora Pass, 10,000 feet, Brewer 1883; Webber Peak, Lemmon, 

 July, 1875. 



The subspecies palmifrons has the leaves palmately divided; the 

 coordinate subspecies iberidifolia Brand, (I.e., p. 121 G. iberidifolia 

 Benth., in Hook., Jour. Bot., vol. 3, p. 290. 1851) with range in the 

 Rocky Mountains from British Columbia to Colorado, has its leaves 

 pinnatifid; these two subspecies are said by Brand to be "geo- 

 graphisch streng geschieden," a statement needing modification in 

 view of the collections made in northern California and adjacent 

 Oregon ; in this area certain collections have been made that show both 

 subspecies to be present in the northwest (compare Chandler 1666 

 from Marble Mountain, Siskiyou County, 8,000 feet, in which the 

 leaves show such an extension of the central segment that the other 

 segments become lateral to it, i.e., the leaf becomes pinnatifid). 



6. Gilia ciliata Benth. var. neglecta Brand, Pflanzenr., Bd. 4, Heft 



250, p. 137. 1907. 

 Linanthus neglectus Greene, Erythea, vol. 3, p. 24. 1895. 



Type, locality. ' ' Common at subalpine elevations of the California 

 Sierra." 



Range. Sierra Nevada from Sierra County to the Kings River 

 region. 



Zone,. Upper Transition and Canadian. 



Specimens examined Donner Lake, Heller 6939, 6869; Caple's 

 Lakes, Alpine County, 8,500 feet, Hansen 512; Suzy Lake, Tahoe, 

 Setchell and Dobie, July 16, 1901 ; Tallac, Tahoe, 6,600 feet, Smiley 

 136; Snow Creek, Mariposa County, Congdon, June (without year) ; 

 Tioga Road, Yosemite, near White Wolf, 8,100 feet, Smiley 886 ; Snow 

 Creek, 6,500 feet, Smiley 66.0 (with characters intermediate between 

 the species and variety) ; summit above Peckinpah's Mill, trail to 

 Shuteye Mountain, Madera County, 7,100 feet, Smiley 554; summit 



