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JBrown's 579 was correct, and that my own 5963 collected July 

 22, 1902, in Lake county, California, near the summit of Mt. 

 Sanhedrin at about 6000 feet is good Californiciim. In 1903 it 

 was obtained on a high ridge just south of Donner pass, at 8000 

 feet, no. 7177. The Donner Lake region is not far from the 

 type locality, part of it lying in the same county, and it is plen- 

 tiful there. During the present season (1905) it was noted and 

 carefully examined to make the identification positive, at Sis- 

 son, Siskiyou county, at the foot of Mt. Shasta, growing among 

 grass in moist meadows, elevation 3550 feet, the lowest station 

 recorded. 



The "deep brown spot" at the base of the sepals, mention- 

 ed in the original description is green in the living plant, and 

 extends along both edges of the claw, forming a V-shaped mark. 

 The "purple" color of the flowers in the original is due to im- 

 perfect drying, for in nature they are creamy with a greenish 

 tinge. The type shows only the upper part of the plant, hence 

 the large lower leaves are not described. They are broadly 

 elliptical, often verging upon the rotund, the largest ones 3 dm. 

 long, 2.5 dm wide. The "imis caulinaribus in petiolum attenu- 

 atis," upon which Dr. Rydberg lays stress in Bull. Torr. Club, 

 27: 532, is a false character. The lower leaves are no more 

 petioled in this than in the other species. The supposed "pet- 

 iole" is merely the long sheathing base split away from the 

 stem, the likeness enhanced by the fact that only the upper nar- 

 row leaves are present in the type. 



The plant is low, usually not much over a meter in height, 

 several plants growing in close proximity, or often forming ex- 

 tensive colonies in moist gravelly flats in the higher mountains. 

 In North American Fauna 16: \^o. f. 44^ one gets a fairly good 

 idea of its appearance. It is rather common on the high peaks 

 of the north Coast Range, and from at least the middle Sierra 

 north to Mt. Shasta, but just how much further north it extends 

 the writer is not now prepared to state; but it pretty certainly 

 does not extend east to the Rocky mountains. 



