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22. Lomatium brevifolium Coult. & Rose, Contr. Nat. Herb. 7: 232. 1900. 
Peucedanum triternatum brevifolium Coult. & Rose, Rev. N. A. Umb. 70. 1888. 
Type Locauity: “Klickitat County,’ Washington. Collected by Howell. 
Rance: Oregon and Washington. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Columbus, Suksdorf, June 10, 1886; Klickitat River, Suksdorf 
639; Flett 1303; Klickitat County, Howell 1368; Pasco, Hindshaw 15. 
Lomatium pDaAsycarPuM (Torr. & Gr.) Coult. & Rose (Peucedanum dasycarpum Torr. 
& Gr.) is a Californian species reported from Washington on the basis of specimens col- 
lected in Klickitat County by Joseph Howell. The Howell specimens prove to be L. 
canbyi Coult. & Rose. 
LEPTOTAENIA. 
Foliage puberulent. 
Fruit sessile; flowers purple.........-.-.-.------------------- 1. L. dissecta. 
Fruit pedicelled; flowers yellow..........-.-.-.-.-----.------- 2. L. multifida. 
Foliage glabrous. 
Fruit 10 to 12 mm. broad... ..-. ~~~. 2-2-2 2-222 eee 3. L. purpurea, 
Fruit 4 to 6 mm. broad. 
Leaflets rigid; flowers purple..........-. 2222-22-22 2 4. L. watsoni. 
Leaflets not rigid; flowers vellow, long-pediceled ........... ! 5. L. salmoniflora. 
1. Leptotaenia dissecta Nutt.; Torr. & Gr. Fl. 1: 630. 1840. 
Ferula dissecta A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 348. 1868. 
Ferula dissoluta 5. Wats. in Brewer & Wats. Bot. Cal. 1: 271. 1876. 
Type Locauitry: “Plains of the Oregon (Columbia) near the confluence of the Wahla- 
met.’”’ Collected by Nuttall. 
Rance: From northern California to Vancouver Island. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Klickitat County, Howell, Suksdorf; Rattlesnake Mountains, 
Cotton 332; Clallam County, Elmer 2764; Wenache, Whited 1340 and 1058, 1207, April 
9, 1900; Prper 2013; Ellensburg, Whited 320; Colville, Lyall in 1861. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Arid Transition. 
2. Leptotaenia multifida Nutt.; Torr. & Gr. Fl. 1: 6380. 1840. 
Ferula multifida A. Gray, Proc, Am. Acad. 7: 348. 1868. 
TypsE Locauity: “Plains of the Oregon [Columbia], east of Wallawallah, and in the Blue 
Mountains.”’ Collected by Nuttall. , 
Rance: From western Wyoming and Montana to New Mexico and west to Washington 
and California. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Blue Mountains, Piper, July, 1896; between Coulee City and 
Waterville, Spillman, May, 1896; Medical Lake, Sandberg & Leiberg 54; Sprague, Hender- 
son, May, 1892; Sandberg & Leiberg 212; Pullman, Elmer 136; Steptoe, Vasey, May 15, 
1901; Coulee City, Piper 3845; Colville Reservation, Griffiths & Cotton 403; Chelan Butte, 
Griffiths & Cotton 185. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Arid Transition. 
3. Leptotaenia purpurea (S. Wats.) Coult. & Rose, Rev. N. A. Umb. 52. 1888. 
Ferula purpurea 8. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 21: 453. 1886. 
Type Locauity: “On rocky hillsides near the lower Columbia River, in Klickitat County, 
Wash.”’ Collected by Suksdorf. 
RanGe: Klickitat County, Washington, and adjacent Oregon. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Simcoe Mountains, Howell in 1879; west Klickitat County, 
Suksdorf 98, 325, 26, 281. 
a Brewer & Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 452. 1880. 
