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Silver Valley, Alpine Co., 7300 ft. Mdw. (Meadow) No. 10,151. Arabis platysperma Gray With 10,150. See p. 81. No. 10,152. Salix scouleriana Barr. High shoulder on the slope of a ridge near Stanislaus Mdw. Probably a characteristic place for this species. 12 ft. h.
- Gilia aggregata Spr. no. 10,137 cont. Corolla brilliant scarlet, its tube and throat 8 to 9 lines long, its lanceolate acute lobes about half as long. Stamens unequal in length, 3 long, 2 short, much exserted from throat. Cor. lobes widely rotate, in age reflexed. Stamens and style scarlet; anthers yellow. Very common in moist flats of this Red Fir belt. - Potentilla flabellifolia Hook. No. 10,156, cont. Leaflets 3, somewhat fan-
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Aug. 13, 1923. shaped or cuneate-obovate, laciniate-toothed at apex or crenate-cleft. Stamens 20, 20, 20. (Petals cordatish). Disk yellow, its upper border black, the stamens inserted on the yellow part or on margin of black part. Moist flats on swampy borders of lake above Pacific Valley, west. Rootstocks stout, horizontal, colonies forming by their spread. - Penstemon confertus Dougl. no. 10,130 cont. Palate with two hairy spots, one on either fold. Sterile stamen glabrous. Fertile stamens and style glabrous. The hairs of the hairy spots are long. Sterile stamen dilated a little at tip. Anthers reniform, so: [drawing] the cells explanate and divergent on anthers. Lower pair of stamens the longer, explanate first. Cor. purple or purple and blue, 5 to 5 2/3 lines long. Stems in erect decumbent clusters from base.
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