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Specimens examined. Summit Station, Kellogg; near Frog Lake 

 at foot of Castle Peak, Heller 7071; divide on south side of Slide 

 Mountain, in granite, 7,600 feet, Heller 10931; Deer Park, meadows, 

 6,500 feet, Miss H. Walker 2081; Ebbett's Pass and Lake Tenaya, 

 Brewer 1683 ; Sentinel Dome, Gray in 1872 ; Glacier Point, 7,200 feet, 

 Hall 9152; between Lake Tenaya and Tuolumne meadows, 8,100 feet, 

 Smiley 702 ; south slope of Kaiser Crest, 9,400 feet, Smiley 627 ; Alta 

 meadows, 10,000 feet, G. B. Grant 2091; Hockett's meadows, Culbert- 

 son (B 4456) ; open woods along Soda Creek, 8-9,000 feet, Purpus 

 5154; trail to Panther Peak, Dudley 1268. 



The genus Romanzoffia Cham, sends one species (R. sitch&nsis 

 Bong.) down the coast from Alaska as far as San Mateo County, 

 California, where it is found in moist sea-facing canons in the Coast 

 Redwood forests. In Washington, this species is Hudsonian and Can- 

 adian, according to Piper. It is not known from the Sierra, but there 

 exists in the Herbarium of the University of California part of a 

 plant, too fragmentary for certain reference but probably belonging 

 to this species, said to have been found with a collection of Phacelia 

 humilis taken at Glen Alpine by Chesnut and Drew, August 8, 1890. 

 It seems altogether probable that this association was subsequent to 

 the reception of the specimens at the herbarium. 



Draperia systyla Torr. (in Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 7, p. 401. 

 1868), a monotypic genus peculiar to California, is widely distributed 

 in the Transition zone throughout the Sierra, rising to our lower 

 border. (Trail to Pitman Creek, Fresno County, 6,500 feet, Smiley 

 572). 



50. BOKKAGINACEAE (BORAGE FAMILY) 



Annual plants of small size and with inconspicuous flowers. 



Calyx persisting entire about the nutlets l.XIryptanthe 



Calyx circumscissile, the upper 5-lobed part early deciduous and falling away, 



leaving a ring about the nutlets 2. Greeneocharis 



Perennials of larger size and conspicuous flowers. 



Nutlets armed with (usually glochidiate) prickles; fruit bur -like -3. Lappula 

 Nutlets unarmed, smooth or merely muriculate or rugose, never bur-like. 



Flowers blue 4. Mertensia 



Flowers white or yellow 5. Oreocarya 



1. CEYPTANTHE 



1. Cryptanthe affinis Greene, Pitt., vol. 1, p. 119. 1887. 



ErynitzJcia affinis Gray, Proe. Am. Acad., vol. 20, p. 270. 1885. 

 Cryptanthe geminata Greene, I.e. 



Type locality. "E. side of the Cascades near lat. 49." 



Range. Pacific Coast from Washington and Idaho to California. 



Zone. Transition rising into the Canadian. 



