PIPER—FLORA OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. 581 
Yakima, Mrs. Steinweg; Leckenby, April 22, 1896; Mount Stuart, Sandberg & Leiberg 573; 
without locality, Vasey in 1889: Umtanum Creek, Cotton 1140. 
The typical plant occurs only west of the Cascade Mountains, and has broad, deeply 
cordate, usually crenate-dentate leaves, while in the Eastern Washington plant the leaves 
are longer and narrow, entire or nearly so, and but little cordate. Perhaps two species 
may be involved. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Transition. 
4. Balsamorhiza balsomorhiza (Hook.) Heller, Cat. N. A. PI. 7. 1898. 
Heliopsis? balsamorhiza Hook FI. Bor. Am. 1: 310. 1833. 
Balsamorhiza hookeri Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7: 349. 1840. 
Type Locauity. “Common on the gravelly banks of the Columbia near Fort Vancouver.” 
Collected by Douglas. 
Rance: Washington to Utah and California. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Falcon Valley, Suksdorf 357, 358; Klickitat River, Suksdorf 359; 
Simcoe Mountains, Howell; Rattlesnake Mountains, Cotton 568, Mill Plain near Vancouver, 
Howell, June 4, 1880 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Transition. 
5. Balsamorhiza terebinthacea (Hook.) Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7: 349. 1840. 
Heliopsis terebinthacea Hook. Fl. Bor Am 1: 310. 1833. 
Type LocaLity: “Common at Fort Vancouver on the Columbia and in the grounds of 
the interior.’ Collected by Douglas. 
Rance: Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED. Falcon Valley, Suksdorf 869, 363, 135; Rock Island, Sandberg & 
Leberg 460; Klickitat River, Suksdorf 360, 362, 361; Ellensburg, Piper, May 20, 1897; 
60 miles west of Clearwater Spalding. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Transition 
6. Balsamorhiza hirsuta Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil Soc. 7: 349. 1840. 
Tyre Locaity: “Dry plains east of Walla Walla, near the Blue Mountains, and in the 
Grande Ronde prairie’ Collected by Nuttall. 
Rance: British Columbia to Utah and California. 
SpECIMENS EXAMINED Wenache Mountains, Elmer 476; Whited 13544; Wenache, Whited 
6, 1354, Ellensburg, Piper 2718. May 20, 1897, Cleman Mountain, Henderson, June 14, 
1892; Coulee City Piper 3853; Waterville Whated 1219; “Wallah Wallah,” Nuttall?, without 
locality Vasey in 1889, Wenache Mountains, Cotton 1193; Spipen [Naches] River, Wilkes 
Expedition 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Transition. 
WYETHIA. 
Leaves lance-oblong, glabrous, varnished ......------------------ 1. W. amplexicaulis. 
Leaves lanceolate, sparsely hirsute ....-..----------------------- 2. W. angustifolia. 
1. Wyethia amplexicaulis Nutt Trans Am. Phil Soc. 7: 352. 1840. 
Espeletia amplericaulis Nutt. Journ. Acad Phila 7: 38. 1834. 
Type Locauiry. “ About Flat-head River.” Collected by Wyeth. 
Rance: British Columbia and Montana to Nevada and California. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED. Columbia River latitude 46° to 49°, Lyall; White Salmon, 
Suksdorf; Peshastin, Sandberg & Leiberg 532; Pullman, Lake & Hull 750; Piper 1595, 
without locality, Vasey 497, Wenache Mountains, Griffiths & Cotton 113. 
ZONAL pistRiBuTION: Arid Transition 
2. Wyethia angustifolia (DC.) Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soe, 7: 352. 1840. 
Helhanthus longrfolvus Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 312. 1834, not Pursh, 1814. 
Alarconia angustifola DC. Prod. 5: 537. 1836. 
