606 CONTKIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Specimens examined: Yakima K('<i;i(>n, Brandegee 883 in part; Spokane, Piper 2297, 

 2298; Spokane, Kreager 174. 



Zonal distuibution : Arid Transition 



ANAPHALIS. 



la. Anaphalis margaritacea occidentalis Greene, Fl. Fran. 399. 1897. 



Type locality: Sand liills of the seaboard at k-ast from Middle California to Alaska. 



Range: Alaska to California. 



Specimens examined: Ca-scade Mountains, latitude 49°, LyaJl in 1859; Seattle, Piper; 

 Silverton, Bouck 103; Goose Lake, Flett 1096; Taeonia, Flett 129; Tieton River, Cotton 

 445; North Yakima, Watt, August, 1895; Roslyn, Whited 467; along Twisp River, WMted 

 204; Lake Chelan, Lake cfc Hull 744; Bridge Creek, Elmer 634; without locality, Vasey 

 488; Mount Carlton, ^rea^er 223; Fish Lake, Dwrm, August, 1900; Atanum Soda Springs, 

 Watt, August, 1895. 



Zonal distribution: Transition. 



lb. Anaphalis margaritacea subalpina A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 1-: 233. 1884. 



Ty'pe locality: "Mountains of Colorado." 



Range: Washington to Colorado. 



Specimens examined: Snofiualmie Falls, Pi/*er 676; Feshnatm, Sajidberg li'. Leiberg 511; 

 Mount Stuart, Elmer 1177' Stuart Island, Laurence 155. 



GNAPHALITJM. 



Bristles of the pappus united at base: involuere brownish 1.6'. -purpureurn. 



Bristles of the pappus separated at base. 



Plants low; flowers in dense leafy clusters; involucres very woolly. 



Bracts white; plants loosely-woolly 2. G. palustre. 



Bracts brownish; plants appressed-woolly 3. C uliginosum 



Plants tall; flowers in looser, leafless clusters; involucres woolly 

 only at base. 



Glandular; leaves green above 4. G. decurrens. 



Not glandular; leaves white-woolly. 



Involucre white; cymes loose 5. G. microcepJialum. 



Involucre yellowish ; cymes dense G. G. chilense. 



1. Gnaphalium purpureum L. Sp. PI. 2: 8.54. 1753. 

 Type locality: " In Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania." 



Range: Throughout the most of the United States, Mexico, South America. - 

 Specimens examined: Montesano, Heller 3919; Seattle, Piper, July, 1895; Tacoma, 

 Flett 72; west Klickitat County, Suksdorf I8m. 

 Zonal distribution: Humid Transition. 



2. Gnaphalium palustre Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7: 404. 1840. 

 Gnaphalium gossypinmn Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7: 404. 1840. 

 Type locality: "Rocky Mountains, Oregon, California, and Chile." 

 Range: Washington to Wyoming, south to California and Arizona. 



Specimens examined: Montesano, Heller 4014; west Klickitat County, Suksdorf 2Q70, 

 655, 653, 654, 2080; mouth of Columbia, Nuttall; Wenache, Whited 242; Ellensburg, 

 Whited 696, 496; North Yakima, Watt, August, 1895; Crab and Wilson creeks, Sand- 

 herg cfc Leiberg 284; Rock Lake, Lake & Hull, August 3, 1892; Spokane, Henderson, July 

 9, 1892; Pullman, Piper 1583; Almota, Piper 2735; Mount Carlton, Kreager 177. 



Zonal distribution: Transition and Upper Sonoran. 



3. Gnaphalium uliginosum L. Sp. PI. 2: 856. 1753. 

 Type locality: European. 



