1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 329 



3. Collinsia Wrightii Wats., Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 24, p. 84. 1889. 



Type locality. '"On the Greenhorn Mountains, Kern. County, 

 California, at 6,000 to 7,000 feet altitude." 



Range. Sierra Nevada. 



Zone. Transition mainly, rising into the Canadian. 



Specimens examined. Head of Fordyce Creek, Placer County, 

 6,910 feet, Hall 8724; Suzy Lake Basin, Tahoe, 7,600 feet, Smiley 

 144a; Tuolumne meadows, Yosemite, dry open pine forest, 8,600 feet, 

 R. A. Ware 2615c, 2630c; same locality, in forest of P. Murrayana, 

 8,600 feet, Smiley 827; near Round meadow, Fresno County, 7,200 

 feet, dry gravelly soil, Smiley 582 ; trail to Farewell Gap from Mineral 

 King, Tulare County, Coville and Funston 1566. 



3. VERONICA 



Inflorescence viscid pubescent; leaves obtuse; style % inch long ....1. V. humifusa 



Inflorescence not viscid pubescent, but hairy; leaves acute; style much shorter, 



only about % as long as in No. 1 2. V. alpina var. unalaschensis 



1. Veronica humifusa Dickson, Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. 2, p. 288. 

 1794. 



V. serpyllifolia var. humifusa Hook., Fl. Bor. Am., vol. 2, p. 101. 1838. 



Type locality. "Upon very high mountains, and under wet shady 

 rocks" in Scotland. 



Range. In North America from the subarctic regions south to 

 northern New England, New York; in the west, in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains as far south as Colorado, and in the Cascade-Sierra axis, to 

 California. 



Zone. Canadian mainly. 



Specimens examined. Suzy Lake, Tahoe, 7,600 feet, McGregor 

 121 ; Caple 's Lakes, Alpine County, 8,500 feet, Hansen 547 ; Glen 

 Alpine, Tahoe, 6,900 feet, Smiley 333; near Lily Lake, Tahoe, 6,600 

 feet, Smiley 297 ; Snow Valley, Ormsby County, Nevada, 2,460-2,615 

 m., Baker 1160; near Cloud's Rest, Yosemite, E. R. Drew, July 25, 

 1887; Tuolumne meadows, Yosemite, open grassy ground, 8,600 feet, 

 R. A. Ware 2687c ; Round meadow, Fresno County, 7,000 feet, Smiley 

 575; Volcano meadows (formerly called Whitney meadows), Tulare 

 County, Hall and Babcock 5485. 



