572 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: North Yakima, Mrs. Steinweg, August, 1894; Watt, August, 1895, 
Falcon Valley, Suksdorf 395; White Salmon, Suksdorf 394; Howell; without locality, Vasey 
512: Trout Lake, Pett 1074; Klickitat River, Cotton 1440. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION. Transition. 
3. Aster campestris Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7: 293. 1840. 
Tyre Locauity: ‘Along the plains of Lewis River,’ probably in southern Idaho. Col- 
lected by Nuttall. 
Rance: Washington to Montana and northern California. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Falcon Valley, Suksdorf 68; Howell in 1882; Wilson Creek, Lake 
& Hull 815, 816; Sprague, Lake & Hull, August, 1895, July 9, 1892; Lake Chelan, Lake & 
Hull 720; Spokane Falls, Watson 195; Spokane County, Suksdorf 928; Spalding; with- 
out locality, Brandegee; Walla Walla, Mrs. Anderson; Waitsburg, Horner 550, 553. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition. 
3a. Aster campestris suksdorfii subsp. nov. 
Differs from true A. campestris in being canescent all over with short hairs that are not 
at all appressed. 
Type specimen in the Gray Herbarium. Collected on Little Klickitat River, October 5, 
1882, by Suksdorf. 
4. Aster integrifolius Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7: 291. 1840. 
Tyre Locauity: “Near the summit of Thornberg’s Pass.’’ Collected by Nuttall. 
RANGE: Washington to California, Colorado and Montana. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Blue Mountains, Horner 364. 
5. Aster major (Hook.) Porter, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 325. 1894. 
Aster unalaschensis major Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 7. 1884. 
Aster modestus Lindl.; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 8. 1834. 
Aster sayianus Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7: 294. 1840. 
Tyree Locatitry: “Saskatchewan to the Rocky Mountains,” or as given by Lindley, 
“Mountain woods at the mouth of Smoking River, Lat. 56°N.” Collected by Drummond. 
Rance. British Columbia and Oregon eastward to Ontario. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Cascade Mountains, latitude 49°, Lyall in 1859; Nisqually Val- 
ley, Allen 125a, Falcon Valley, Suksdorf 64; Skokomish River, Piper 2189; plains of 
Columbia, Nuttall; Beaver Creek, Whited 29, Minastash Canyon, Whited, August 29, 1897; 
Yakima region, Brandegee 858, Stevens Pass, Whited 1466, Loomis, Elmer 568; Railroad 
Creek, Elmer 700, Kittitas County, Sandberg & Leiberg 703; Wind River, Fleté 1088; 
Clealum Creek, Cotton 840. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Canadian. 
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6. Aster amethystinus Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7: 294. 1840. 
Type Locatity, Salem and Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
Rance: Massachusetts to lowa; eastern Oregon and eastern Washington. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Okanogan River, Watson 191; Waitsburg, Horner 559; Wawa- 
wai, Piper 1602 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION, Arid Transition and Upper Sonoran. 
7. Aster multiflorus Ait. Hort Kew. 3: 203. 1779. 
Tyre cocatitry. ‘North America ”’ 
Rance. British Columbia to Canada, south to Arizona and Georgia 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED North Yakima, Henderson, October 5, 1892; Ellensburg, Whited 
853, 591, Colville, Lyall in 1860; Loomis, Elmer 615, Lake Chelan, Lake & Hull 799; 
Spokane County, Suksdorf 930, Spokane, Sandberg, Heller & McDougal 917, Sprague, Lake 
& Hull August 4, 1892, without locality, Lake & Hull 798, without locality, Vasey; 
without locality, Brandegee 34, without locality, Cooper in 1853, Waitsburg, Horner 23, 
Toppenish, Cotton 774. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition. 
