1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 341 



4. Castilleja montana Congdon, Erythea, vol. 7, p. 188. 1900. 



Type locality. Not definitely given. 



Range. Sierra Nevada, east in the mountains of Nevada (West 

 Humboldt Mountains). 



Zone. Canadian and Transition. 



Specimens examined. Summit back of Jonesville, Butte County, 

 7,000 feet, Heller 11658; lower end of Donner Lake, Heller 6881; 

 Grass .Lake, Tahoe, McGregor 9 ; Suzy Lake basin, Tahoe, 7,800 feet, 

 Smiley 171; Caple's Lakes, Alpine County, 8,500 feet, Hansen 892; 

 Fallen Leaf Lodge, Tahoe, 6,900 feet, Abrams 4869 ; Mt. Rose, 9,650 

 feet, Heller 9900 ; Lake Tenaya trail, foot of Mt. Dana, Congdon, 

 August 14-16, 1894; Crescent Lake, Congdon, August 14-15, 1895; 

 Tuolumne meadows, 8,500 feet, Smiley 708 ; Little Kern River, Tulare 

 County, along brooks, 9-10,000 feet, Purpus 5223 ; Olancha Mountain, 

 Tulare County, 10,000 feet, Rothrock 333. 



This species about Lake Tahoe and northward shows forms closely 

 approaching the next and perhaps, when more material is available 

 for comparison collected in the northern Sierra, it will be best con- 

 sidered as a variety of C. miniata. Hall 2582, from Tahquitz Valley, 

 San Jacinto Mountains, is probably to be assigned to C. mantana, a 

 reference which would extend the range to the mountains of southern 

 California. 



5. Castilleja miniata Dougl., in Hook., Fl. Bor. Am., vol. 2, p. 106. 



1838. 

 C. BrooTcsii Eastwood, Proe. Calif. Acacl. Ill, vol. 2, p. 288. 1902. 



Type locality. "Blue Mountains, N.W. America." 



Range. Alaska to California and Colorado. 



Zone. Transition and Canadian. 



Specimens examined. Summit, 6,800 feet, Heller 10590 ; Webber 

 Lake, Kennedy and Doten 93 ; trail to Suzy Lake basin, Tahoe, in 

 marshy meadow, 7,600 feet, Smiley 277* ; Pyramid Peak, Tahoe, 9,500 

 feet, Smiley 106; Snow Valley, Ormsby County, Nevada, 2,460-2,615 

 m., Baker 1484. 



As noted under the preceding species, in the Tahoe region plants 

 occur which are very difficult of satisfactory assignment, the char- 

 acters they present allying them on the one hand to the present species, 

 and yet showing obvious resemblances to C. montana. At the present 



* C. miniata occasionally shows yellow bracts and flowers; it is not known 

 whether this color form persists as a race or not; in every other respect these 

 yellow .flowered plants are precisely like the usual red flowered kind. 



