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9. Washingtonia purpurea C. & R., sp. nov. 
Slender or sometimes rather stout, from a thick elongated root, 1 to 
6 dm. high, nearly glabrous; basal leaves clustered and often short- 
petioled, once to twice ternate as are the stem leaves; leaflets ovate to 
lanceolate, acute to acuminate, irregularly and sharply-lobed and 
toothed, 2 to 7 cm. long; fruiting umbels widely spreading, of 2 to 4 
rays 5 to 7.5 cm. long; pedicels 2 to 4, longer than the fruit, 12 to 20 
min. long; flowers bright purple; fruit slightly hispid at base and 
glabrous above, 10 to 12 mm. long, slightly beaked at apex; stylopo- 
dium prominent and flat (the two stylopodia forming a conspicuous 
disk), the short style arising from its inner edge. 
Type locality, Sitka, Alaska; collected by Coville & Kearney on the 
Harriman expedition, No. 796, June 14-17, 1899; type in U. 8S. Nat. 
Herb. 
Mountains of northern Oregon to Alaska. 
Specimens examined: 
OrEGON: Mount Hood, Henderson, September, 1884. 
WasHincton: Chehalis County, on peak at altitude of 900 to 1,050 meters, Lamb 
1382, August 4, 1897. 
British CoLtumBiA: Mountains near Kootenai Lake, Macoun, July 9, 1890. 
AvaskA: Juneau, Grace Ee. Covley, July 24, 1891; Mount Verstovia, Sitka, 
Evermann 223, August 14, 1892; Yes Bay, Gorman 23, June 6, 1895; Juneau, 
Sitka, and Port Wells (Prince William Sound), Coville & Kearney 590, 796, 
1264, June 6-26, 1899; Baranoff Island, 7release 4525, June 14, 1899; Yaku- 
tat Bay, Saunders 4526, June 20, 1899. 
10. Washingtonia occidentalis (Nutt.) C. & R. 
Glycosma occidentalis Nutt. in Torr. & Gray Fl. 1:639. 1840. 
Osmorhiza occidentalis Torr, Bot. Mex. Bound. 71. 1859. 
Myrrhis occidentalis Benth. & Hook. Gen, Pl, 1:897. 1867. 
Rather stout, puberulent (stems sometimes glabrous or pubescent at 
the nodes); leaves 2 or 3-ternate; leaflets lanceolate-oblong, 3.5 to 
10 cm. long, acute, coarsely serrate, rarely incised; umbel 5 to 12- 
rayed, naked or with 1 or 2 involucral bracts; fruiting rays 2.5 to 
12.5 cm. long, usually erect and forming a somewhat compact cluster 
of fruits; pedicels 2 to 8 mm. long; fruit 12 to 16 mm. long, obtuse 
at base, glabrous, distinctly beaked, and with prominent acute ribs; 
stylopodium and style 1 to 2 mm. long, the former mostly conical; 
seed face strongly concave. 
Type locality, ‘* western side of the Blue Mountains of Oregon;” 
collected by Nuttall, type in Herb. Columbia Univ. 
From Alberta to northern California and the mountains of Colorado. 
Specimens examined: 
ALBerta: Watertown Lake, Macoun 10678, July 28-31, 1895. 
Wasnineton: Wilkes Exped. 508; Dr. Cooper; Simcoe Mountains, Suksdorf 1198, 
June 6, 1884; G. R. Vasey 304, in 1889; Eastern Cascade Mountains, Hender- 
son 377, June 11, 1892; Sandberg & Leiberg 502, in 1893; Blue Mountains, 
Wallawalla County, Piper 2334, July 16, 1896; Wenatchee, Whited, June 
