I96 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS [vol. 5C 



Oregon : 



Wallowa Mountains, Piper. 2,472, August, 1896; 



Cusick, 235 ; also 1,723 in 1897. 

 Idaho : 



Near Sawtooth, Evcrmann, 657, July 26, 1896; 



Salmon River Mountains, altitude 3,180 meters, Henderson, 3,909. 

 August 20, 1895. 

 Montana : 



Belt Mountains, Scribner, July, 1883 ; 



Old Hollowtop, altitude 2,400 meters, Rydberg &Besscy, 4,659, July 

 7, 1897; 



Spanish Peaks, altitude 2,700 meters, /. V ogcl, July 20, 1897. 



This subspecies was mistaken by Doctor Gray 1 for C. lycopo- 

 dioides (Pall.) D. Don, an Alaskan species easily distinguished by 

 its scarious-margined smaller leaves. It is owing to its small leaves 

 and long-peduncled flowers that our plant has a superficial resem- 

 blance to C. lycopodioides. 



Type specimen. — Sheet no. 529,987, U. S. National Museum 

 (Piper's no. 2472). 



CASSIOPE MERTENSIANA CILIOLATA Piper, subsp. nov. 



Stems and peduncles glabrous ; leaves cilolate with delicate white 

 fugacious hairs ; calyx lobes entire ; otherwise as in C. mcrtensiana. 



Apparently confined to Siskiyou County, California, whence the 

 following specimens have been examined : 



Cliffs, Castle Lake, Pringle, August 5, 1882 ; 



North of Mount Shasta, H. E. Brown, July, 1897 ; 



Mount Eddy, altitude 2,550 meters, Copcland, 3,898, August 18, 1903. 



Type specimen. — Sheet no. 444,503, U. S. National Museum 

 (Copeland's no. 3898). 



CASSIOPE MERTENSIANA CALIFORNICA Piper, subsp. nov. 



Stems and peduncles glabrous; leaves rather large; 3 to 5 mm. 

 long, very minutely glandular-ciliate; calyx lobes and corolla lobes, 

 more or less erose-denticulate. 



In the Sierra Nevada from Lassens Peak southward. The follow- 

 ing specimens have been examined : 



California : 



Mount Lyall, altitude 3,300 meters, Hall & Babcock. 3,578, July, 1902; 

 Ridge above Donner Pass, altitude 2,250 meters, Heller, 7,131, August 



10, 1903; 

 Carson Spur, Amador County, altitude 2,550 meters, Hansen, 795,. 



July, 1893; 



1 Syn. Fl., 2 1 : 36. 1878. 



