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Pass, 8,500 feet, Heller 7152; Pyramid Peak, 9,400 feet, Hall and 

 Chandler, 4750 ; above Heather Lake, Tahoe, 8,400 feet, Smiley 352 ; 

 Silver Mountain Pass, Alpine County, Hooker and Gray in 1877 ; 

 peak near Sonora Pass, 11,500 feet, Brewer 1901, July 18, 1863 ; head 

 of the San Joaquin River, dry sand at 10,000 feet, Muir 2 in 1873 ; 

 Alta meadows, Tulare County, Mrs. Brandegee, August, 1905; same 

 locality, Hopping 523; Old Mt. Whitney, rocky places at 12-13,000 

 feet, Purpus 1589. 



Dr. Gray, in describing the var. alpina, clearly recognized its 

 doubtful character, as distinct from C. nevadensis, and the collections 

 made since demonstrate the impossibility of maintaining it apart from 

 the latter species. The extension of the range of the species to Wash- 

 ington is based upon Professor Piper's identification of Brandegee 

 906 from Mt. Stuart ; this collection is the only one reported north of 

 the southern Cascades. 



The reference to the synonymy of C. nevademis of C. Douglasii 

 var. montana Jones is based upon description only. If there are 

 plants within the Sierra, which justify the segregation, they have not 

 come to my notice. This variety is said by its author to include 

 ' ' most of the forms usually referred to the var. alpina of Gray. . . . 

 This is the usual form of the higher mountains, from 7,000 ft. to 9,000 

 ft. alt., and ranges from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to the 

 Sierras." It is referred by Rydberg (N. Am. FL, vol. 34, p. 72) to the 

 synonymy of C. pedicularia Greene (by error called " peduncular ia"} , 

 a species described (Pitt., vol. 4, p. 98. 1899) from the mountains 

 of southern Colorado and considered by Professor Aven Nelson (Coul- 

 ter-Nelson New Manual, p. 557) to be indistinguishable from the var. 

 alpina Gray. 



19. RAILLARDELLA 



Plant silvery canescent; scapoid peduncles 1-4 inches high 1. R. argentea 



Plant strigose pubescent, glabrate, never silvery; peduncles 4-10 inches high 

 2. R. scaposa 



1. Raillardella argentea Gray, Bot. Calif., vol. 1, p. 417. 1876. 

 Raillardia argentea Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 6, p. 555. 1865. 



Type locality. "Sonora. Pass, 8,000-10,000 feet, and Ebbett's 

 Pass, at about the same altitude, on dry slopes. ' ' 



Range. Sierra. Nevada and San Bernardino Mountains (Mt. San 

 Gorgonio). White Mountains of Inyo County. Also Mt. Lassen, and 

 (ace. Howell) at Crater Lake, southern Oregon. 



Zone. Arctic-alpine, rarely lower. 



