Neues aus: Flora of the State of Washington. I. 77 



The spimen United States National Herbarium no. 352425, collected 

 in September, 1897, by A. D. E. Elmer (no. 678) in the Cascade Moun- 

 tains of Okanogan County, Washington, on the north fork of Bridge 

 Creek, growing „on dry sand-gravelly moraines just below the glaciers 

 at 6000 feet altitude." 



This species differs from Juncoides parviflorum in its more densely 

 tufted habit, smaller size, and more lacerate bractlets. thicker, never 

 shining leaves, the lack of a distinct apiculation on the capsule valves, 

 and the light-colored pointed seeds. In parviflorum the seeds are dark 

 brown, narrowly oblong in outline, and blunt at the ends. Our specie, 

 bears a superficial resemblance to the European spadiceum, but is readily 

 distinguishable by its broader leaves and by . its seed and capsule 

 characters, which in spadiceum are the same as described above for 

 parviflorum. 



Juncoides piperi occurs on high peaks in the Cascade Mountains 

 from northern Washington to southern Oregon, in the Olympic Mountains, 

 and in the Coeur d'Alene Mountains of northern Idaho (Leiberg 1355). 

 and appears to be associated with soils so porous as to be subject to 

 great dryness in late summer. It is named for Professor C. V. Piper, 

 who first pointed out its characters. 



Specimens examined: Olympic Mountains, Plett 122; Horseshoe Basin, 

 Lake & H.ull 412; Bridge Creek, Elmer 678; Mount Rainier, Tolmie; 

 Piper 2172V 2 ; Allen 44; Chiquash Mountains, Suksdorf 1009: Klickitat 

 River, Plett 1364 in part. 



38. Hookera douglasii (S. Wats.) Piper, I. c, p. 190. 



Brodiaea grandi flora Smith, err. det. Pursh, PI., 1, 223; 1814. — Trite- 

 leia grandiflora Lindl., Bot. Reg., 15, under t. 1293: 1829. — Brodiaea 

 douglasii S. Wats., Proc. Am. Acad., XIV, 237; 1879. — British Columbia 

 to Utah and Wyoming, probably only to the eastward of the Cascade 

 Mountains. 



39. Hookera bicolor (Suksdorf) Piper, 1. c, p. 190. 



Brodiaea bicolor Suksdorf. West. Am. Sci.. XIV, 2; 1902. — Eastern 

 Washington. 



40. Hookera howellii (S. Wats.) Piper, 1. c, p. 190. 



Brodiaea howellii S. Wats., Proc. Am. Acad., XIV, 301; 1879. 

 Washington. 



41. Quamasia suksdorfii (Greenm.) Piper, 1. c. p. 191. 



Gamassia suksdorfii Greenm., Bot. Gaz.. XXXIV. 307; 1902. - Wash- 

 ington. 



42. Calochortus subalpinus Piper. 1. c, p. 195. 



Bulbs ovate, 2 to 3 cm long, the outer coats dark; stems fiexuous, 

 erect 15 to 20cm high, usually exceeded by the solitary leaf, 1 to 3- 

 flowered; leaf linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 3 to 8 mm wide, paler beneath; 

 bracts lanceolate, long-acuminate, 2 to 3 cm long; sepals lance-ovate, 

 acuminate, somewhat scarious on the margins, 1,5 to 2,5 cm long, 6 to 

 9-nerved, the base strongly arched forming a shallow pit ms.de. this 



