1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 351 



C. K. Schneider (Handb. d. Laubh.. vol. 2, p. 74. 1911) gives as 

 the place of first publication of this species "in Hesperian (San Fran- 

 cisco), V, p. 522. 1861. ' ' I have not been able to verify this reference. 



56. VALERIAN ACE AE (VALERIAN FAMILY) 

 1. VALERIAN A 



1. Valeriana occidentalis Heller, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 28, 

 p. 24. 1901. 



V. calif ornica Heller, Muhl., vol. 1, p. 60. 1904. 



Type locality. "Near the western end of the Craig Mountain 

 Plateau, above Lake Waha, Nez Perces County, Idaho, altitude 3,500 

 feet." 



Range. Idaho to California. 



Zone. Canadian. 



Specimens examined. Ridge south of Donner Pass, 8,500 feet, 

 Heller 7156; Luther's Pass, Tahoe, 7,800 feet, Abrams 4765; Pyramid 

 Peak, 7,000 feet, W. S. Atkinson in 1900; Carson Spur, Alpine 

 County, 8,500 feet, Hansen 725 ; Lake of the Woods, Tahoe, 8,200 feet, 

 Smiley 47a; Mt. Goddard, 11,000 feet, Hall and Chandler 678; 

 between Lake Tenaya and Tuolumiie meadows, Yosemite, 9,500 feet, 

 R. A. Ware 2680c ; region of Dinkey Creek, Fresno County, 7,500 feet, 

 Hall and Chandler 413; Mineral King, near Bullion Flat, 10,589 

 feet, Dudley 2575 ; Farewell Gap, Tulare County, 10,400 feet, Purpus 

 5274; Hockett's meadows, Tulare County, 8,500 feet, Culbertson 

 (B4376). 



Differs from V. acutiloba Rydb. (Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 28, 

 p. 24. 1901) of the Rocky Mountains in the cyme with the lower 

 peduncles remote at anthesis and some of the basal leaves lobed or 

 pinnately parted. The "V. sylvatica Banks" of the Syn. Fl., vol. 1, 

 pt. 2, p. 43, and of the Bot. Calif., vol. 1, p. 287 (as V. sylvatica Rich- 

 ardson) includes a number of forms growing in the western mountains 

 that may be divided into two groups with characters centering about 

 the two species here contrasted. 



Of the several species of Campanula present in the boreal floras 

 of the Rocky Mountains and Cascades, none reach the Sierra, though 

 C. scabrella Engelm. (Bot. Gaz., vol. 6, p. 237. 1881) was described 

 from "bleak rocky ridges of Scott Mountain, west of Mount Shasta" 

 and ranges north to Washington. 



