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Specimens examined. Mt. Rose, 10,800 feet, Heller 9865 ; same 

 locality, 10,800 feet, Kenndey 1158;* Mt. Dana, east side of north 

 ridge overlooking Mono Lake, 12,200 feet, Smiley 730; same locality, 

 at summit, Chesnut and Drew, July 17, 1889; Wood's Peak near 

 Amador Pass, 10,500 feet, Brewer 2120; top of Mt. Lyell, Muir in 

 1872; Mt. Goddard, 13,000 feet, Hall and Chandler 667; summit of 

 Cirque Peak, 12,942 feet, Hall and Babcock 5497 ; above timber line 

 on mountain north of Whitney meadows, Coville and Funston 1660; 

 Mt. Whitney, 13,700 feet, Rothrock 387 ; slopes of Old Mt. Whitney, 

 12-13,000 feet, Purpus 1421 ; rocky slopes on Little Kern River, 11- 

 12,000 feet, Purpus 5196. 



3. Hulsea brevifolia Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 7, p. 359. 1867. 



Type locality. "Mariposa Big-tree Grove." 



Range. Sierra Nevada. 



Zone. Transition and Canadian. 



Specimens examined. Near Cloud's Rest, Chesnut and Drew, 

 July 10, 1889; base of Cloud's Rest, Congdon, August 5, 1898; Snow 

 Creek, Yosemite, 7,000 feet, Hall 9181 ; Yosemite Creek to Porcupine 

 Flat, 7,500 feet, Hall and Babcock 3466; foot of Cloud's Rest, 8,100 

 feet, Smiley 509 ; Buck Camp, Mariposa County, Congdon, August 

 15, 1895. 



17. OROCHAENACTIS 



1. Orochaenactis thysanocarpha (Gray) Coville, Contr. Nat. 

 Herb., vol. 4, p. 134. 1893. 



Chaenactis thysanocarplia Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 19, p. 30. ^1883. 

 Bahia Palmeri Wats., Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 24, p. 83. 1889. 



Type locality. ''Southern part of the Sierra Nevada, California, 

 probably in Kern Co., at 9,800 feet." 



Range. Southern Sierra Nevada. 



Zone. Upper Transition and lower Canadian. 



Specimens examined. Sandy places in forest of Pinus Jeffreyi 

 on Soda Creek, Tulare County, 7-8,000 feet, Purpus 5218; Long 

 meadow, Tulare County, Dr. E. Palmer 168; sandy plains, Whitney 

 meadows, Tulare County, 9-10,000 feet, Purpus 1639. 



This collection furnished the basis for H. caespitosa. 



