1921 J Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 403 



2. Cirsium Andersonii (Gray) Petrak, Bot. Tidsskr., vol. 31, p. 68. 



1911. 

 Cnicus Andersonii Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 10, p. 44. 1874. 



Type locality. "Sierra Nevada, California, and adjacent part of 

 Nevada. 



Range. Sierra Nevada Region. 



Zone. Transition and Canadian, rising locally into the Hud- 

 sonian. 



Specimens eaxvmined. Near Donner Lake, Torrey 262; Glen 

 Alpine, Tahoe, 6,800 feet, McGregor 135; south end of Fallen Leaf 

 Lake, Tahoe, 6,400 feet, Hall 8770; near Marlette Peak, Washoe 

 County, Nevada, 7,500 feet, Hall and Chandler 4576; Ebbett's Pass, 

 Alpine County, 8,500-9,000 feet, Brewer 2001; Sky Valley, Tulare 

 County, Culbertson (B4679) ; mountain slopes on Little Kern River, 

 9-10,000 feet, Purpus 5060 ; base of Mt. Whitney, 11,500 feet, W. L. 

 Kennedy 397. 



28. PHALACROSERIS 



1. Phalacroseris Bolanderi Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 7, p. 364. 

 1867. 



Type locality. "Westf all's meadows, above Yosemite Valley, alt. 

 8,000 feet." 



Range. Central Sierra Nevada. 



Zone. Canadian. 



Specimens examined. Peregoy 's, wet meadows, Yosemite, A. Gray 

 in 1875; same locality, 7,300 feet, Hall 9673; Shuteye Mountain, 

 Madera County, Billy Brown's meadows, 6,800 feet, J. Murdoch Jr. 

 2574. 



This species is the only one in the genus, the achenes being typically 

 without pappus, though occasionally plants are found, whose achenes 

 have a short coroniform pappus (var. coronata Hall, Yosemite Fl., 

 p. 267. 1912). 



29. MICROSERIS 



1. Microseris nutans (Geyer) Schultz, Bip. Pollichia, vols. 22-24, 

 p. 309. 1866. 



Scorzonella nutans Geyer, in Hook., Lond. Jour. Bot., vol. 6, p. 253. 1847. 

 Calais nutans Gray, Pac. B.R. Rep., vol. 4, p. 112. 1857. 

 Ptilooalais nutans Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad., vol. 2, p. 54. 1886. 



Type locality. "Dry sunny loamy declivities of Spokane and 

 Coeur d'Aleine Mountains." 



