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Specimens examined. East side Mt. Rose, 8,430 feet, Heller 10946 ; 

 Pyramid Peak, west side, W. L. Atkinson in 1900 ; Cisco Butte, 6,500 

 feet, Hall 8756 ; White Wolf, 8,000 feet, H. M. Evans ; Mineral King, 

 T. S. Brandegee, July 27, 1892. 



4. Phacelia Eisenii T. S. Brandegee, Zoe, vol. 2, p. 252. 1891. 

 Type locality. ' ' Collected by Dr. Gustav Eisen in Fresno County, 



1880, also collected near Yosemite, and by the writer in moss on wet 

 rocks at Frazier's Mill, in the mountains above Porterville. " 



Range. Southern Sierra. 



Zone. Transition and rising into the Canadian locally. 



Specimens examined. Bald Mountain, Dinkey Creek region, 8,500 

 feet, Hall and Chandler 378; Mineral King, T. S. Brandegee; Alta 

 meadows, Mrs. K. Brandegee. 



5. Phacelia ramosissima Dougl., in Benth., Trans. Linn. Soe., vol. 



17, p. 280. 1834. 



Phacelia decumbens Greene, Pitt., vol. 5, p. 17. 1902. 

 Phacelia fastigiata Greene, Pitt., vol. 5, p. 18. 1902. 



Type locality. Dry rocky plains of the Columbia near Priest's 

 Rapids and at the Stony Island." Douglas. 



Range. Pacific Coast from British Columbia to Arizona and 

 southern California. 



Zone. Arid Transition to Canadian, perhaps in the Upper 

 Sonoran. 



Specimens examined. Donner Pass, Heller 7032; Grass Lake, 

 7,200 feet, McGregor 101; Marlette Peak, Hall and Chandler 4570; 

 Mt. Silliman, on Clover Creek, Dudley 1472 ; Mineral King, 7,800 feet, 

 Hall and Babcock 5666. 



Dr. Brand 119 proposes to distinguish our Sierran orm of this 

 widely ranging plant by accepting Greene's P. decumbens as a form 

 distinct by its reclining habit, a character which, in my opinion, is 

 not sufficiently marked to call for nomenclatural notice. 



6. Phacelia magellanica (Lam.) Coville, Contr. Nat. Herb., vol. 4, 



p. 159. 1893. 

 Hydrophyllum magellanica Lam., Jour. Hist. Nat., vol. 1, p. 373. 1787. 



Type locality. South America, Patagonia. 



Range. Western North America from British Columbia to Sas- 

 katchewan, south to Colorado and California. South America (Pata- 

 gonia). 



Zone. Arid Transition to Arctic-alpine. 



