572 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Specimens examined: North Yakima, Mr.s. jStern^/'e//, August, 1894; TFa//, August, 1895; 

 Falcon Valley, <S'wX\s(io?;/' 395 ; Wliite Salmon, iST/tsv/or/" 394; Howell; without locality, Fase?/ 

 512; Trout Lake, Flett 1074; Klickitat River, Cotton 1440. 



Zonal distribution. Transition. 



3. Aster campestris Xutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7: 293. 1840. 



Type locality; "Along the plains of Lewis River," probably in southern Idaho. Col- 

 lected by Nuttall. 



Range: Washington to Montana and northern California. 



Specimens examined: Falcon Valley, SuJcsdorf6S\ Iloivell in 1882; Wilson Creek, Lake 

 & IMl 815, 816; Sprague, Lake. & /i?///. August, 1895, July 9, 1892; Lake Chelan, Lake & 

 Hull 720; Spokane Falls, Watson 195; Spokane County, Si/ksdorJ 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. 



Did'eis from true A. campe.^tris 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. 



Type locality: "Near the summit of Thornl)crg's Pass." Collected by Nuttall. 

 R.\nge: 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. 1834. 

 Aster modestus Lindl.; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 8. 1834. 



Aster sayianus Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7: 294. 1840. 



Type locality: "Saskatchewan to the Rocky Mountains," or as given by Lindley, 

 "Mountain woods at the mouth of Smoking River, Lat. 56° N." Collected l)y Drummond. 



Range. British Columbia and Oregon eastward to Ontario. 



Specimens examined: Cascade Mountains, latitude 49°, Lyall in 1859; Nisrjually Val- 

 ley, Allen 125a; Falcon Valley, Svlcsdorf 64; Skokomish River, Piper 2189; plains of 

 Columbia, Nuttall; Beaver Creek, Whited 29; Minastash Canyon, Whiied, August 29, 1897; 

 Yakima region, Brandegee 858; Stevens Pass, Whited 1466, Loomis, Elmer 568; Railroad 

 Creek, Elmer 700; Kittitas County, Sandberg d; Leiberg 703; Wind River, Flett 1088; 

 Clcalum Creek, Cotton 840. 



Zonal distribution: Canadian. 



6. Aster amethystinus Nutt. Trans. Am Phil. Soc. 7: 294. 1840. 

 Type locality. Salem and Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



Range: Massachusetts to Iowa; 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 multifiorus Ait. Hort Kew. 3: 203. 1779. 

 Type locality; "North America " 



Range; British Columbia to Canada, south to Arizona and Georgia 



Specimens examined North Yakima, Henderson, October 5, 1892; Ellcnsburg, Whited 

 853, 591, Colvilie, Lyall in 1860; Loomis, Elmer 615, Lake Chelan, Lake & Hvtl 799; 

 Spokane County, Sw^'Sf/o// 930, Spokane, Sandberg, Heller d' McDougal 917 , Sprague, Lake 

 c€" Hull August 4, 1892, without locality. Lake ct' Hull 798, without locality, Va.'seij: 

 without locality, Brandegee 34, without locality, Cooper in 1853, Waitsburg, Horner 23, 

 Toppenish, Cotton 774. 



Zonal distribution. Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition. 



