1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 307 



between Atwell's Mill and Redwood meadows, Tulare County, 9,000 

 feet, Hall and Babcock 5378. 



7. Gilia tularensis Brand, Pflanzenr., Bd. 4, Heft 250, s. 136. 1907. 

 Type locality. "Siidliche Sierra Nevada: bei Smith meadow, Fish 



Creek, Tulare County, 2,800 m." 



Range. Known only from the type locality. 



Specimens examined. Near Smith meadow, 8,400 feet, Hall and 

 Babcock 5211. 



8. Gilia Nuttallii Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., vol 8, p. 267. 1870. 



Linanthus Nuttallii Greene, in Milliken, Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot., vol. 2, 

 p. 54. 1904. 



Type locality. Not precisely given. 



Range. Pacific Coast from Washington to southern California, 

 east to Colorado. 



Zone. Arid Transition to Hudsonian. 



Specimens examined. Silver Mountain, Alpine County, Brewer 

 2042; King's Canon, Ormsby County, Nevada, 1,700-2,000 m., Baker 

 1053 ; near Lake Tahoe, Lemmon 20 ; mountains west of Kaweah 

 meadows, Tulare County, 8-9,000 feet, Purpus 5259; vicinity of 

 mineral King, Tulare County, 8,200 feet, Hall and Babcock 5351; 

 Farewell Gap, Tulare County, Culbertson (B4536). 



Other species of Gilia are frequently seen even in the high moun- 

 tains, but are summer annuals of warm slopes or dry meadows (G. 

 Harknessii Curran: Tuolumne meadows, gravelly soil near the Lodge 

 8,500 feet, Smiley 861 ; G. bicolor Brand : region of Dinkey Creek, 

 Fresno County, 8,500 feet, Hall and Chandler 379 ; Tioga Road near 

 Dark Hole, Yosemite, 7,700 feet, Smiley 860). 



3. POLEMONIUM 



Corolla lobes subequal to the corolla tube; leaflets entire, opposite or nearly so. 



Stems tall, solitary; style long protruding 1. P. occidentale 



Stems short, clustered; style slightly exserted 2. P. pulcherrimum 



Corolla lobes distinctly shorter than the tube; leaflets divided, subverticillate 

 3. P. exlmium 



1. Polemonmm occidentale Greene, Pitt., vol. 2, p. 75. 1890. 



P. coeruleum L., var. pterosperma Benth., in DC. Prodr., vol. 9, p. 317. 



1845. 



P. coeruleum of authors, as of Gray, Syn. PL, vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 151. 1878. 

 P. pterospermum Brand, Helios, vol. 22, p. 77. 1905, not Nelson and 



Cockerell. 

 P. Helleri Brand, Pflanzenr., Bd. 4, Heft 250, s. 32. 1907. 



~ Type locality. Not given. 



