PIPER—-FLORA OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. 429 
LicusTicuM TENUIFOLIUM S. Wats. was included in Suksdorf’s list on the basis of the 
Suksdorf specimen above cited. 
4. Ligusticum purpureum Coult. & Rose, Contr. Nat. Herb. 7: 137. 1900. 
Type LocaLity: “Goat Mountains, Washington.” Collected by Allen. 
Rance: Cascade Mountains of Washington. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Mount Rainier, Piper 2009, August, 1895; Allen 259; near Mount 
Adams, Henderson, August, 1892; Horseshoe Basin, Elmer 706; Mount Adams, Suksdorf 581. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Hudsonian. 
Related to the above species, but apparently distinct, are the following specimens: Mount 
Rainier, Piper 629; Stevens Pass, Sandberg & Leiberg 731; Whited 1464; Wenache Moun- 
tains, Cotton 1685; Cascade Mountains, Tweedy 288. Better material is needed to clear 
up the matter. 
Licusticum scoraicum L. Sp. Pl. 1: 250. 1753. Type locality, “Ad litora Maris in 
Anglia, Suecia.’’ Range, salt marshes along the east coast from Labrador (and up the 
St. Lawrence) to Connecticut; along the entire Alaskan coast; also coasts of northern Asia 
and Europe. “Mouth of the Columbia,” according to Hooker, basing on Douglas.a “‘ Not 
rare along. coast at Shoalwater Bay,” according to A. Gray, basing on Cooper.? The 
species is common on the Alaskan coast, but there are no specimens preserved in American 
herbaria to show that it occurs on the Washington coast. 
GLEHNIA. 
1. Glehnia littoralis (A. Gray) Schmidt, Mem. Acad. Petrop. VII. 12?: 1388. 1868, as 
syn.; Coult. & Rose, Contr. Nat. Herb. 7: 165, 1900. 
Cymopterus littoralis A. Gray, Pac. R. Rep. 12°: 62. 1860. 
Phellopterus littoralis Schmidt, Mem. Acad. Petrop. VIT. 12° : 138. 1868. 
Type Locauity: “On the sands of the seashore at Shoalwater Bay,’’ Washington. Col- 
lected by Cooper. 
RANGE: Sandy seashores from Oregon to Alaska; also in Korea and Japan. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Oyhut, Lamb 1249; Shoalwater Bay, Cooper; Whidby Island, 
Gardner 138; Clallam County, Elmer 2768; Iwaco, Piper 5002. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Humid Transition. 
PTERYXIA. 
Leaves with pale rigid segments........-.-..---------------------- 1. P. terebinthina. 
Leaves greener with segments not rigid. .......------------------- .. 2. P. foeniculacea. 
1. Pteryxia terebinthina (Hook.) Coult. & Rose, Contr. Nat. Herb. 7: 171. 1900. 
Selinum terebinthinum Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 266. pl, 95. 1834. 
Cymopterus terebinthinus Torr. & Gr. Fl. 1: 624, 1840. 
Pteryxia terebinthacea Nutt.; Torr. & Gr. FI. 1: 624. 1840, as synonym. 
Type LocaLity: “Sandy grounds of the Wallawallah River, North-West coast of America.”’ 
Collected by Douglas. 
Rance: Dry ground, eastern Oregon and eastern Washington. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Cascade Mountains to Fort Colville, Lyall in 1860; Falcon Valley. 
Suksdorf 129; Morgans Ferry, Suksdorf 317; Atanum River, Flett 1295; Pasco, Hindshaw, 
May, 1896; Piper 2980; Henderson, May, 1892; Hunts Junction, Leckenby, April, 1898; 
Walla Walla region, Brandegee 803; junction Crab and Wilson creeks, Sandberg & Leiberg 
230; Moxee to North Yakima, Griffiths & Cotton 39; Prosser, Cotton 1080; Rock Creek, 
Cotton 957. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Upper Sonoran. 
aFl. Bor. Am. 1: 265. 1834. b Pac. R. R. Rep. 12*: 62. 1860. 
