PIPER FLORA OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. 77 



1. Polypodium scouleri llook. & Grev. Icon. Fil. 1: pi. 5G. 1829. 



Leather-leaf polypody. 

 Pobipodium jxidiyphijlhnn D. C Eaton, Am. Jourii. Sci. II. 22: 138. 1856. 

 Type locality: Not ascertained. 



Range: British Columbia to Calil'ornia along the coast. 



Speclmens examined: Granville, Canard 320: Fort Canliv. Bnnwr, Octolter 29, 1881. 

 Zonal distribition: Hvniiid Transition. 



2. Polypodium occidentale (Hook.) Maxon, Fern Bull. 12: 102. 1904. 



Licorice polypody. 



Poll/podium viilgare occidentale Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 2o8. 1840. 



Polypodium falcatum Kellogg, Proc. Cal. Acad. 1: 20. 1854. 



Type locality: "On rocks and decayed wood, common near the conflvience of the 

 Columbia with the sea." Collected by Douglas. 



Rance: Alaska to California in the coast region. 



Specimens examined: Seattle, Pipe/- 300; Port Ludlow, iJinns, August 20, 1888; Clal- 

 lam County, Elmer 2811; Grays Harbor, Wilkes Expedition 11; Castle Rock, Piper, 

 October 31^1901. 



Zonal distribution: Humid Transition. 



3. Polypodium hesperium Maxon, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wasli. 13: 200. 1900. 



Type locality: "In Coyote Canon, Lake Chelan, Washington." Collected by Gorman. 



Range: British Columbia to Montana and Arizona. 



Specimens examined: Olympic Mountains, Piper, August, 1895; Mount Rainier, Piper, 

 August, 1895; Stehekin, Whited 1392; Horseshoe Basin, Elmer 703; without locality, 

 Vasey 41; Cape Horn, Piper 5013, 5015; Mount Baldy, Conard 288; Kettle Falls, Beattie & 

 Chapman 2225. 



Zonal distribution: Canadian to Arctic. 



This species is the basis for the record of Polypodium imlgare L. in Suksdorf's List. 



Polypodium californicum Kaulf. (Polypodium intermedium Hook. & Arn.) is reported 

 from the Columbia River, collected by Scouler, in Hooker's Flora 2: 258. It is quite 

 certain that there is a mistake here either as to locality or as to identity. 



PHEG0PTERI3. Beech fern. 



Plant denseU' tufted; leaves oblong-lanceolate, tripinnatifid _ I. P. alpestris. 



Plants spreading by rootstocks; leaves triangular. 



Leaves bipinnatifid; rachis winged 2. P. phegopteris. 



Leaves ternate, the stalked divisions pinnate or l)ipinnate; rachis 



wingless 3. P. dryopteris. 



1. Phegopteris alpestris (Hoppe) Mett. Fil. Hort. Bot. Lips. 83. 185(3. 

 Polypodium alpestre Hoppe, Taschenb. 216. 1S05. 



Type LOCALITY : European. 



Range; British Columbia to Montana and California. Europe. 



Specimens examined: Cascade Mountains, latitude 49°, Lj/a// in 1859; Clallam County, 

 Elmer 2806; Olympic Mountains, Piper, August, 1895; Mount Adams, Henderson, August 

 10, 1892; Mount Rainier, Piper 2111; Skagit Pass, Lake it Hull 658; Wenache region, 

 2,120 meters altitude, Brandegee 1222; Bridge Creek, Elmer 636. 



Zonal distribution: Arctic. 



2. Phegopteris phegopteris (L.) Underw. Bull. Torr. Club 20: 462. 1893. 

 Phegopteris polypodioides Fee, Gen. Fil. 243. 1850-52. 



Polypodium phegopteris L. Sp. PI. 2:1089. 1753. 



Polypodium phegopteris minus Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 258. 1840. 



Type locality; "Habitat in Europae fagetis et in \'iiginia.'' 



Range: Alaska to Labrador, south to Washington, Iowa, and Virginia. Europe. Asia. 



Specimens examined; Skamania County. Suksdorf 2035. 



Zonal distribution: Flumid Transition. 



