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Rance: Vancouver Island to California. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Fairhaven, Suksdorf 996; Puget Sound, Suckley; Port Ludlow, 
Binns, September 25, 1890; Clallam County, Elmer 2754; Fairhaven, Piper, July 3, 1897; 
Spokane, Piper 2275; without locality, Cooper in 1854. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Humid Transition. 
The two forms distinguished by Doctor Gray are probably worthy of recognition, but 
unfortunately his subspecies bracteosa is clearly based on the original Lithospermum 
lycopsoides. 
PIPTOCALYX. 
1. Piptocalyx circumscissus (Hook. & Arn.) Torr. Bot. Wilkes Exped. 17: 414. 1874. 
Lithospermum ¢ circumscissum Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 370. 1840. 
Echinospermum circumscissum A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 58. 1875. 
Type Loca.ity: ‘Snake Fort, Snake Country,’ Idaho. Collected by Tolmie. 
Rance: Washington to Wyoming, Utah, and California. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Morgans Ferry, Suksdorf 404; Sunnyside, Cotton 351; North 
Yakima, Henderson, May 26, 1892; Pasco, Piper 2966; Hindshaw 30; Ainsworth, Brande- 
gee 991; Wilson Creek, Sandberg & Leiberg 228. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Upper Sonoran. 
OREOCARYA. 
Corolla tube exceeding the calyx.........-.-...-.-. 22 22222222------- 1. O. leucophaea. 
Corolla tube not exceeding the calyx. 
Herbage not very hispid, but “evidedly canescent and the inflores- 
cence fulvescent..-......-- we -------e-e eee. 4.0. sericea. 
Herbage very hispid; “inflorescence not fulves escent. 
Inflorescence very dense; leaves obtuse...............-.----- 2. O. celosiowles. 
Inflorescence not very dense; leaves acute..........-.-.--.--- 3. O. spiculifera. 
1. Oreocarya leucophaea (Dougl.) Greene, Pittonia 1: 58. 1887. 
Myosotis leucophaea Dougl.; Lehm. Pug. 2: 22. 1830. 
Eritrichium leucophaeum A. DC. Prod. 10: 129. 1846. 
Krynitskia leucophaea A. Gray, Syn. Fl. ed. 2. 2': 430. 1886. 
Type cocauity: ‘Arid barrens of the Columbia, and of its northern and southern tribu- 
taries.”” Collected by Douglas. 
Rance: British Columbia to California and Utah. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Columbia River, latitude 46° to 49°, Lyall in 1860; Morgans 
Ferry, Suksdorf 407; arid barrens of the Columbia, Douglas; Egbert Springs, Sandberg & 
Leiberg 93, 373; Scott, Leckenby, May 16, 1898; Pasco, Piper, July 11, 1897; Hindshaw 
2; Elmer 1056; Piper 2987; Walla Walla region, Brandegee 997; Wallula, Cotton 1027. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Upper Sonoran. 
2. Oreocarya celosioides Eastwood, Bull. Torr. Club 30: 240. 1903. 
Tyre Locaity: “From the banks of the Columbia, eastern Washington.” Collected 
by Howell. 
RANGE: Eastern Washington. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Rock Island, Sandberg & Leiberg 440; Rattlesnake Mountains, 
Cotton 359; near Columbus, Suksdorf, June 10, 1886; Klickitat, Howell, June, 1879; without 
locality, Brandegee 996. 
ZONAL DIsTRIBUTION: Arid Transition. 
This species has been confused with O. glomerata (Pursh) Greene. 
3. Oreocarya spiculifera sp. nov. Hii 
Tufted from a stout woody caudex, the whole plant pallid; basal leaves numerous, 
crowded, spatulate-oblanceolate, acute, only the midnerve evident, densely pubescent on 
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