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4. Gentiana oregana Engelm.; A. Gray, Svn. Fl. 2': 122. 1878. 
Gentiana affinis ovata A. Gray, Bot. Cal. 1: 483. 1876, not @. ovata F. G. Dietr.Vollst. 
Lexik. Gaertn. Nachtr. 3: 458. 1815-21. 
Type Loca.ity: “ From near San Francisco.”’ Collected by Bolander. 
Rance: British Columbia to Idaho and California. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Fish Lake, Dunn, August &, 1900; Pend Oreille River, Lya// in 
1861; Spokane County, Suksdorf 937; Cheney, Mrs. Susan Tucker in 1890; Pullman, 
Piper 1623; Blue Mountains, Piper, July, 1896; Davis Ranch, Spokane County, Kreager 
304; Clarks Springs, Spokane County, Areager 564. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Arid Transition. 
5. Gentiana affinis Griseb. in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 56. 1838. 
Type Locauity: ‘Carlton House to Edmonton House.’’ Collected by Drummond. 
Rance: British Columbia to Minnesota, south to California and New Mexico. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Parrotts Post-office, Hull 552; Spokane County, Suksdorf 938; 
Mission, Kreager 489. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Arid Transiton. 
“ Abundant in mountain valleys, between Spokane and Kettle Falls, in alluvial deposits.” - 
Douglas, according to Hooker. 
GENTIANA DOUGLASIANA PATENS Griseb. in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 60. 1838. Near Fort 
Vancouver, Garry, according to Hooker, If the plant really occurs in Washington it has 
not at any rate been seen since. It has been collected at Port Renfrew, Vancouver 
Island, by Rosendahl & Brand. 
FRASERA. 
Plants 1 to 2 meters tall; leaves marginless. 
Corolla blue-purple, a single gland on each lobe. ..... 2. ..-.--.----- 1. F. fastigiata. 
Corolla greenish, two glands on each lobe... ....-.-.------------- 2. I’. speciosa. 
Plants about } meter tall; leaves with firm white margins. 
Whole plant finely pubescent. ...-.........-.-.----------------- 3. F. albicaulis, 
Whole plant glabrous.......-...-.---..------- Lees ee eee eee. 4.F. nitida. 
1. Frasera fastigiata (Pursh) Heller, Bull. Torr. Club 24: 312. 1897. 
Swertia fastigiata Pursh, Fl]. 1: 101. 1814. 
Frasera thyrsiflora Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. 3: 288. 1851. 
Frasera carolinensis Walt. err. det. Griseb. in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 66. 1838. 
Tyfe Locauiry: “On the Missouri Flats near the Rocky Mountains.” Collected by 
Lewis. The Lewis specimen in the herbarium of the Philadelphia Academy of Science is 
ticketed: “In moist places on the Squamash Flats,” that is, Weippe, Idaho. The plant 
does not occur on the Missouri, Pursh’s note being doubtless an error. 
Rance: Northern Idaho and adjacent Washington. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Spokane County, Suksdorf 939; Ienderson 2211; Rockford, 
Piper; Palouse, Henderson, July 15, 1892; Kamiak Butte, L/mer 802; Piper, July 20, 1899. 
According to Hooker also collected by Douglas, in ‘‘mountain valleys, Spokane and 
Kettle Falls.” 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Arid Transition and Canadian. 
This species is really an inhabitant of rather dry pine woods. At ‘‘Quamash Flats’ 
the plant occurs only at the very margins of the moist meadows, but it is abundant in 
the pine woods adjoining. 
2. Frasera speciosa Dougl.; Griseb. in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 66, ft. 153. 1838 
Type cvocarity: ‘On the low hills near Spokan and Salmon Rivers and subalpine parts 
of the Blue Mountains, near the Kooskooka River.’’ Collected by Douglas. 
RanGE: East Washington to Wyoming, south to California and New Mexico. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Upper Naches River, Henderson, June, 1892. 
