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At first takino^ the plant from Noble pass, California, as the 

 type, I concluded that it could be none other than the plant so 

 common alon*j the Sierra Nevada with slender, white, sagiitate- 

 based anthers, commonly called C. Lcichtlinii. But an exami- 

 nation last summer in the Torrey Herbarium of Nultall's C. 

 luteus, which should be the type of C. Nuttallii^ cleared up the 

 matter. This Clover mountain ])lant, the C. eurycarpus of 

 Watson, is the same as Nntlall's, and should pass into synonymy. 



Heitchera parvifolia first appeared here. Specimens col- 

 lected at 9150 feet cc)nld not readily be placed by Rydberg's key 

 in North American Flora. To be placed in the proper section 

 one expects to find it under "stamens much shorter than the 

 sepals," whereas it really belongs under "stamens equaling or 

 exceeding the sepals." When the flower is soaked, the stamens 

 are found to be declined, bending in and down toward the pis- 

 til, thus appearing as if shorter than the sepals, but they are as 

 long or longer. 



At 7450 feet Pen/sienion JVatsoni, a very handsome species, 

 was found, and near it Alsine Curlisii, Phacelia leucophylla, and 

 Phacelia idahoetisis. The latter species is ^liown in the fore- 

 ground in figure 2 i. 



Figure 21. Luxuriant vegetation on the Clover mountains. 



