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7,000 feet, Smiley 294; Cisco Butte, Placer County, 6,500 feet, Hall 

 8760 ; Tuolumne meadows, Yosemite, dry sunny places on the meadows, 

 8,500 feet, Smiley 737;* Snow Creek, Yosemite, 7,100 feet, Smiley 

 666 ; between Nevada Falls and Cloud 's Rest, A. Gray in 1872 ; Alta 

 meadows, Tulare County, Mrs. Brandegee, August 4, 1905. 



13. HEMIZONIA 



1. Hemizonia Wheeleri Gray, Bot. Calif., vol. 1, p. 617. 1876. 



Madia tenella Greene, Pitt., vol. 3, p. 167. 1897. 



Type locality. ' ' Tulare Co., Monachay meadows, etc., upper part 

 of South Fork of Kern Eiver, at 8,200 to 10,000 feet altitude." 



Range. Southern Sierra Nevada and mountains of southern Cali- 

 fornia. 



Zone. Transition, rising into the Canadian. 



Specimens examined. Monache meadow, 8,200 feet, Rothrock 306 ; 

 Mt. Olancha, 10,000 feet, Rothrock 335; same locality, on Summit 

 meadow, 9,500 feet, Hall and Babcock 5276; sandy places near Soda 

 Creek, 8-9,000 feet, Purpus 5071. 



14. HELENIUM 



Leaf bases decurrent upon the stem forming wings; tube of corolla very short 



or ring-like 1. H. Bigelovii 



Leaf bases not decurrent; tube of corolla long 2. H. Hoopesii 



1. Helenium Bigelovii Gray, Pac. R.R. Rep., vol. 4, p. 107. 1857. 

 Heleniastrum Bigelovii Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL, vol. 1, p. 342. 1891. 



Type locality. "Swamps near Santa Rosa Creek, California." 

 Bigelow. 



Range. Southern Oregon through the Coast Ranges and the 

 Sierra Nevada to the mountains of southern California. 



Zone. Transition mainly, rising into the Canadian. 



Specimens examined. Cisco, Brandegee; Glen Alpine, Setchell 

 and Dobie, July 6-21, 1901 ; Lily Lake, Tahoe, 6,600 feet, Smiley 327 ; 

 Mt. Raymond, Madera County, 7,800 feet, Smiley 532; soda spring, 

 north fork of Kern River, 8,500 feet, Rothrock 414; Little Kern 

 River, 9,000 feet, Culbertson (B 4273) ; meadows near Little Kern 



* The species, H. minima Gray (Proe. Am. Acad., vol. 9, p. 189. 1874) is a 

 common Transition plant, from which the variety differs in the achene of the ray 

 being beaked, but forms difficult of assignment occur, as my no. 737 shows an 

 intermediate condition between the species and the higher mountain variety. 



