78 Neues aus: Charles V. Piper, Flora of the State of Washington. I. 



marked by a purple spot; petals cream-colored, purplish at base, obovate 

 or rhombic-orbicular, 2 to 3 cm long, slightly erose at margin, sparsely 

 villous over the upper face above the striate minutely puberulent gland 

 excepting a narrow portion near the apex; scale narrow, entire, extending 

 in a gentle curve nearly across the petal and covered with long, re- 

 trorse hairs; filaments broadly wing-margined, equalling the long-beaked 

 anthers; capsules nodding, narrowly elliptic, rather acutish at each end, 

 2 to 3 cm long, beaked by a style 1 to 2 mm long. 



A subalpine species closely allied to G. purdyi Eastwood, which 

 differs in having thinner sepals lacking the pit at the base, more villous 

 petals without the naked apical area, less villous scales which are very 

 strongly arched, a much thinner perfectly smooth gland, and merely 

 acuminate, not beaked, anthers. 



Specimens examined: Washington: Mount St. Helens, Coville 765, 

 July 18, 1898; Mount Adams, Henderson 52; Klickitat River, Plett 

 1124; Skamania County, Suksdorf, August 11, 1886; White Salmon, 

 Suksdorf in 1879; Falcon Valley, Suksdorf, July 1, August 1881. 



— Oregon: Mount Hood, A, Wood in 1866; Gorman, September 23, 

 1896; Dr. C. H. Merriam, altitude 6000 to 7000 feet in 1896; Howell 

 in 1881 (type, in U. S. National Herbarium): Three Sisters, Gorman 

 121, July 21. 1903, altitude 6000 feet. 



This species was included in C. degans nanus Wood by its author, 

 but the type of that came from near Yreka, California, and is quite 

 different from this subalpine or alpine northern species. In Howell's 

 Flora of Northwest America this species is well described, but under the 

 name C. lyallii Baker, which belongs to a very different species. The 

 species has also been confused with C. apiculatus Baker. 



43. Vagnera amplexicaulis brachystyla (Henderson) Piper, 1. c, p. 200. 

 Smilacina racemosa brachystyla Henderson, Bull. Torr. Club, XXVII, 



357; 1900. — Eastern Washington and eastern Oregon. 



44. Unifolium bifolium kamtschaticum (Gmel.) Piper, 1. c, p. 200. 

 Gonvallaria bifolia kamtschatica Gmel.; Cham. & Schlecht., Linnaea, VI, 



587; 1831. — Maianthemum bifolium dUatatum Wood, Proc. Acad. Phila., 

 MDCCCLXVIII, 174; 1868. - Alaska to California and Idaho. Siberia. 



45. Disporum smithii (Hook.) Piper, 1. c, p. 201. 



TJvularia smithii Hook., Fl. Bor. Am., II, 174, t. 189; 1838. — Pro- 

 sartes menziesii D. Don, Trans, Linn. Soc, I, 48; 1839 (December) or 1840. 



— Disporum menziesii Britt., Bull. Torr. Club, XV, 188; 1888. — British 

 Columbia to north California, near the coast. 



46. Sisyrinchium birameum Piper, 1. c, p. 203. 



Loosely tuited, 40 to 50 cm high, the herbage discolored in drying; 

 stems smooth, erect, winged, the principal ones branched above, 1 to 

 2 mm broad; leaves firm, erect, rather few, about half the height of the 

 stem, 2 to 3 mm broad, acute; cauline leaf when present 8 to 10 mm 

 long, the two peduncles usually exceeding it; bracts of the spathe sub- 

 equal, lanceolate, purplish, the inner 2 to 2,5 cm long, always shorter 



