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time, about all one is justified in asserting, is that in C. miniata we 

 have a plant of definitely northern and eastern distribution, which 

 in the Sierra shows at least one well-marked variant, here provision- 

 ally accepted as a species. 



6. Castilleja angnstifolia G. Don var. hispida (Benth.) Fernald, 



Erythea, vol. 6, p. 47. 1898. 

 C. hispida Benth., in Hook, Fl. Bor. Am., vol. 2, p. 105. 1838. 



Type locality. ' ' Common on dry soils of the N.W. Coast, especially 

 about Port Vancouver." 



Range. Washington to California and in the mountains through 

 Idaho and Wyoming to Colorado. 



Zone. Transition and above. 



Specimens examined. Lake Valley, Tahoe region, 6,400 feet, 

 Abrams 4768; Mt. Rose, 9,300 feet, Heller 10348; Cisco, Placer 

 County, 5,900 feet, Hall 8707; Silver Lake, Amador County, 7,200 

 feet, E. Muliken 146 ; vicinity of Lake Tenaya, Yosemite, 8,200 feet, 

 Hall and Babcock 3525; Mt. Guyot, 11,000 feet, H. M. and G. R. 

 Hall 8427. 



7. Castilleja pinetorum Fernald, Erythea, vol. 6, p. 50. 1898. 

 C. trisecta Greene, Leaflets, vol. 1, p. 78. 1904. 



Type locality. "In pine woods, Swan Lake Valley, Klamath Co., 

 Oregon. ' ' 



Range. Oregon and southwestern Idaho to California and Nevada. 



Zone. Arid Transition to Canadian. 



Specimens examined. Mt. Dana, Congdon, August 11, 1898; 

 Hockett's meadows, Tulare County, 8,600 feet, rather dry soil, Hall 

 and Babcock 5608; same locality, Culbertson (B4431); Sguth Fork 

 of the Kaweah, Tulare County, 9,000 feet, H. M. and G. R. Hall 8476 ; 

 Lake Tenaya, Yosemite, 8,200 feet, Smiley 678. 



This species is quite common in the dry Murray Pine forests. The 

 leaf variant (C. trisecta) is incapable of definition, merging into the 

 species in all characters. 



8. Castilleja nana Eastwood, Proc. Calif. Acad. Ill, vol. 2, p. 289. 



1902. 



C. inconspicua A. Nels. and Kennedy, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 19, p. 38. 



1906. 

 C. ambigua Jones, Contr. W. Coast Bot., vol. 12, p. 68. 1908. 



