166 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Specimens evamined ¢ 
OrEGoN: Tillamook Bay, J/owell, July 14, 1882; mouth of Umpqua River, How- 
ell, June 18, 1885. 
Wasnuineton: Puget Sound, Wilkes Exped. 5; Westport, Chehalis County, [Hen- 
derson 385, June 26, 1892. 
Britis Cotumpia: Oak Bay, Vancouver Island, Wacown, June 18, 1887. 
Avaska: Ankow River, near Ocean Cape, vicinity of Yakutat Bay, Funston 51, 
July 1, 1892. ; 
The plant scarcely rises above the surface of the shifting sands, the leaves lying 
prostrate. 
For Cymopterus (?) littoralis Gray it is usual to cite Mem. Am. Acad. 6: 391. 1859, 
This publication, however, is a nomen nudum, and refers to the Pacific Railway 
Report (at that time unpublished) cited above as the place of publication, 
49. PHELLOPTERUS Nutt. in Torr. & Gray FI. 1: 628. 1840. 
Calyx teeth evident. Fruit oblong to orbicular in outline, glabrous. 
Carpel with 8 to 5 broad wings, thin throughout or slightly thickened 
Fira. 50.—Phellopterus montanus: a, x 4; b, x 6. 
at insertion, the laterals distinct from those of the other carpel. Sty- 
lopodium wanting. Oil tubes usually more than one in the intervals, 
4 to 8 on the commissural side. Seed more or less dorsally flattened, 
the face with a shallow and broad concavity. . 
Acaulescent or short caulescent plants, with pale once or thrice pin- 
nate leaves (segments usually short, broad, crowded, and more or less 
confluent), mostly conspicuous and similar more or less hyaline invo- 
lucre and involucels, and purple flowers (except in 7? montanus). 
First species cited, Phellopterus montanus Nutt.. under Cymopterus 
montanus Torr. & Gray. , 
A genus of five species, belonging to the plains and mountains of 
western United States. 
Flowers white ............---------------------+----------------- 1. P. montanus. 
Flowers pinkish or purple. ; 
Involucels with bractlets lacerate-fringed at apex ............. 2. 2. macrorhizus. 
