1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 369 



E. membmnaceus Greene (Pitt., vol. 3, p. -294. 1898), described 

 from ' ' Eastern Oregon, at 5,000 to 6,000 feet in the mountains, ' ' seems 

 indistinguishable from the species ; the thinness of the foliage, adduced 

 to separate, is too evidently a reaction to the habitat for acceptance 

 as a valid character. 



2. Erigeron Breweri Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 6, p. 341. 1865. 



Type locality. ' ' Yosemite Valley, alt. 4,000 feet ; in flower. Near 

 Carson City, Nevada, Dr. C. L. Anderson ; in fruit. ' ' 



Range. California and adjacent Nevada, northward to southern 

 Oregon. 



Zone. Transition, rising into the Canadian. 



Specimens examined. Suzy Lake, Tahoe, 7,650 feet, McGregor 

 115; dry soil above Fallen Leaf Lake, Miss Lathrop, July 12, 1909; 

 Fallen Leaf Lake, 6,400 feet, Hall 8784; below Suzy Lake, Tahoe, 

 7,600 feet, Smiley 182; trail above Glen Alpine, Tahoe, 7,400 feet, 

 Mrs. C. C. Hall, 8789; Summit, Alpine County, 9,000 feet, Hansen 

 383 ; Tuolumne meadows, Yosemite, 8,500 feet, Smiley 712 ; soda 

 springs of the Tuolumne, J. B. Lembert, July, 1894; Sentinel Dome, 

 Yosemite, Hooker and Gray in 1877 ; Shuteye Mountain, Madera 

 County, 7,800 feet, J. Murdoch Jr., 2591; South Fork of the San 

 Joaquin, 5-10,000 feet, J. Muir 4; Mt. Silliman, Tulare County, 

 Mrs. Brandegee, August, 1905 ; Kaweah meadows, Tulare County, 

 8-9,000 feet, Purpus 5170; Mineral King, Brandegee, July 27, 1892; 

 Alta meadows, Tulare County, R. Hopping 521; Olancha Mountain, 

 Tulare County, 9,500 feet, Rothrock 362. 



3. Erigeron Elmeri Greene, Fl. Fran., p. 393. 1897. 

 Aster Elmeri Greene, Pitt., vol. 2, p. 170. 1891. 



Type locality. "In the Grand Caiion of the Tuolumne River, 

 California. ' ' 



Range. Central and southern Sierra. 



Zone. Canadian. 



Specimens examined. Glacier Point, Miss Eastwood, July 5-19, 

 1902 ; near Lake Tenaya, growing in cracks of rocks, 8,200 feet, Hall 

 and Babcock 3634; Monarch Creek, Tulare County, 9,000 feet, Hall 

 and Babcock 5697 ; Copper Creek, Tulare County, F. Grinnell, August 

 11, 1914. 



