438 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Orchard Point, Piper, July, 1895; Tacoma, Flett 65; Mount 
Rainier, Piper 2058; Cascade Mountains, latitude 49°, Lyall in 1859; Loomis, Elmer 585; 
Conconully, Whited 1324; Cascade Mountains to Colville, latitude 49°, Lyall in 1860; 
Spokane, Piper, May 16, 1896, May 8, 1898; Hangman Creek, Sandberg & Leiberg 69; 
without locality, Cooper; Olympic Mountains, Elmer 2474; Spokane, Kreager 170; near 
Delight, Cotton 998. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Transition to Hudsonian. 
3. Arctostaphylos nevadensis A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2!: 27, 1878. 
TYPE LocaLiry: “Sierra Nevada, California, common at 8—10000 feet.”’ 
Rance: Washington to California in the Cascades and Sierras. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Skagit Pass, Lake & Hull, August 24, 1892; Stampede Tunnel, 
Henderson, June 20, 1892; near Longmire Springs, Piper 2047; upper Nisqually Valley, 
Allen 110; Mount Adams, Suksdorf, July 12, 1886; Mount Stuart, Sandberg & Leiberg 548; 
west Klickitat County, Suksdorf, May 7, 1886; Roslyn, Whited 357; without locality, Vasey 
379. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: -Hudsonian. : 
ARCTOSTAPHYLOS MEDIA Greene, Pittonia 2: 171. 1891 Type locality: “On dry gravelly 
ground in Mason County,” Washington. Collected by Piper. Range: Western Washing- 
ton. Specimens examined: Port Orchard, Patterson; near Union City, Piper 899 (type). 
This plant is unquestionably a hybrid between A. wea-ursi and A. tomentosa. It occurs 
sparingly and only where both of the parents are abundant. 
CASSIOPE. 
Leaves with a deep dorsal furrow.........-.....-2.--.--------------- 1. C. tetragona. 
Leaves not dorsally furrowed........-,..-.....-.-.-.--2--2--------- 2. C. mertensiana. 
1. Cassiope tetragona (L.) D. Don, Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 17: 158. 1834. 
Andromeda tetragona Li. Sp. Pl. 1: 398. 1753. 
Type Locauity: “Habitat in Alpibus Lapponicis.”’ 
Rance: Alaska to Greenland, southward to Washington [Oregon?] and Hudson Bay. 
Asia. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Cascade Mountains, latitude 49°, Lyall in 1860; Loomis, Elmer, 
August, 1897. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Hudsonian. 
2. Cassiope mertensiana (Bong.) G. Don, Hist. Dichl. Pl. 3: 829. 1834. 
Andromeda mertensiana Bong. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. VI. 2: 152. 1832. 
Andromeda cupressina Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 30. 1888 
Type Locatiry: Sitka, Alaska. 
Rance: Alaska to California. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Olympic Mountains, Piper 2184; J. M. Grant; Cascade Mountains 
to Colville, Lyall in 1860; Silverton, Bouck 124; Mount Rainier, Flett 302; Allen 202; 
Piper 2053; Mount Stuart, Elmer 1109; Mount Adams, Henderson, August 9, 1892; Stevens 
Pass, Sandberg & Leiberg 714; Horseshoe Basin, Lake & Hull 563. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Hudsonian. 
CAssIOPE LycopopiloIDES D. Don is included in Suksdorf’s list, but the species is not 
known south of Alas«a. 
