1921 1 Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 383 



Specimens examined. Castle Peak near the highest point, Heller, 

 August 3, 1903 ; Pyramid Peak, Tahoe, 8,900 feet, Hall and Chandler 

 4746, and at 9,600 feet, no. 4721; Ebbett's and Sonora Passes, Brewer 

 1897, 1986, 2686; near snow above Donner Lake, E. L. Greene 396; 

 Mt. Gibbs, Yosemite, 10,600 feet, Smiley 787; Mt. Goddard, 11,500 

 feet, Hall and Chandler 698; Alta Peak, Tulare County, E. Hopping 

 89 ; Kaweah Peak, Tulare County, 12-13,000 feet, Purpus 1445 ; near 

 Kearsarge Pass, Tulare County, S. W. Austin 556; Denel's Peak, 

 Tulare County, 10,500 feet, Hall and Babcock 5517. 



2. Raillardella scaposa Gray, Bot. Calif., vol. 1, p. 417. 1876. 



Eaillardia soaposa Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 6, p. 551. 1865. 

 Eaillardella scaposa var. Eisenii Gray, Syn. Fl., vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 380. 1884. 

 Raillardella nevaden&is A. Nels. and Kennedy, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 

 19, p. 38. 1906. 



Type locality. "On a peak of the Sierra Nevada, N.N.E. of Soda 

 Springs, in sunny places, at an elevation of 10,000 feet. ' ' 



Range. Sierra Nevada, as to the typical form. 



Zone. Hudsonian and Canadian. 



Specimens examined. Sentinel Dome, Yosemite, Hooker and Gray 

 in 1877 ; back of Sentinel Dome, 8,000 feet, A. Gray in 1872 ; Eagle 

 Peak, Yosemite, Chesnut and Drew, July 6, 1889 ; peak above Lake 

 Tenaya, Yosemite, 8,900 feet, Smiley 872 ; Mono Trail Bolander 5099 ; 

 Tuolumne meadows, 8,500 feet, Smiley 829 ; vicinity of Lake Tenaya, 

 8,300 feet, Hall and Babcock 3504; peak N.N.E. of Soda Springs, 

 10,000 feet, Brewer 1796; Bald Mountain, Fresno County, 8,500 feet, 

 Hall and Chandler 384; Kaiser Crest, Fresno County, 9,000 feet, 

 Smiley 649 ; mountains of Kings River Region, Fresno County, Dr. G. 

 Eisen in 1879 ; Alta meadows, Tulare County, R. Hopping, 522 ; Fare- 

 well Gap, Tulare County, Culbertson (B4529); same locality, 9- 

 10,000 feet, Purpus 5136; Mt. Rose, Carson Range, Nevada, 10,000 

 feet, Kennedy 1147 ; rocky mountain slopes on Little Kern River, 

 Tulare County, 11-12,000 feet, Purpus 5660. 



At the highest stations this species assumes a creeping habit, illus- 

 trated by Kennedy 1147 and this aspect is the basis for R. nevadensis, 

 a strictly ecologic variation but described as a species "Abundant in 

 loose granite sand on Mount Rose, Washoe County, Nevada, at 10,000 

 feet." 



Raillardella is a genus peculiar to California, having, besides the 

 two species here listed, three others: R. Muirii Gray of the Sierra 



