278 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



ACTAEA. 



1. Actaea spicata arguta (Nutt.) Torr. Pac. R. Rep. 4: 63. 1856. Baneberry. 



Actaea argutaN ntt.; Torr. & Gr. Fl. 1:35. 1838. 



Actaea eburnea Rydberg, Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 153. 1900. 



Type locality: ' ' Woods of the Oregon and its tributary streams." Collected by Nuttall. 



Range: Alaska to Montana, California and New Mexico. 



Specimens examined: Clallam County, Elmer 2664; Seattle, Piper, July, 1S95: Silver- 

 ton, Bouck 5; Lakeview, flenJerson, July 1892; without \ovit\\tj , Brandegee 617; without 

 locality, Vaseij 164; Lake Chelan, Lake (& Hull 416; Spokane, Piper, July, 1896; without 

 locality, //enrferson, June, 1892; Blue Mountains, //oz/ur 270; Clarks Springs, A'refl^f/' 127; 

 Mount Carlton, Kreager 292, 297. 



Zonal distribution: Humid Transition and Canadian. 



The fruit of this species is usually scarlet, but white-berried forms occur, distinguishable 

 by no other character. 



COPTIS. Goldthread. 



Leaflets large, 5 to 8 cm. long, ob,scurely 3-lobed 1. C. occidentalis. 



Leaflets smaller, 3-parted and incised 2. C. laciniata. 



1. Coptis occidentalis (Nutt.) Torr. & Gr. Fl. 1:28. 1838. 

 Chrysocoptis occidentalis Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7: 8. 1834. 



Type locality: Rocky Mountains in North Idaho or West Montana. Collected by 

 Wyeth. 



Range: Idaho and adjacent Washington. 



Specimens examined: Pend Oreille River, Li/all in 1861; lone, K reager 4i)l ; Newport, 

 Piper 4213. 



Zonal distribution : Canadian and Arid TransilioiL 



2. Coptis laciniata A. Gray, Bot. Gaz. 12: 297. 1887 

 Type locality: Oregon. Collected by Hall. 

 Range: Washington to northern California. 

 Specimens examined: Wind River, Flett 1297. 



CIMICIFTJGA. 



1. Cimicifuga elata Nutt.; Torr. & Gr. Fl. 1 : 36. 1838. 



Type locality: "Shady woods of the Oregon." Collected by Nuttall. 



Range: Washington and Oregon in the coast region. 



Specimens examined: Clallam County, Elmer 2662; Nhishel Mountain, Piptr in 1888; 

 Skamania County, Suksdorf 1990; near Vancouver, Piper 3502. 



Zonal distribution: Canadian. 



PAEONIA. 



1. Paeonia broAvnii Dough; Hook. F\. Bor. Am. 1:27. 1829. 



Type locality: "Near the confines of perpetual snow on the subalpine range of Mount 

 Hood," Oregon. Collected by Douglas in 1826. 



Range: Washington to Utah and California. 



Specimens examined: Columbia Valley, Lyail in 1860; Falcon Valley, SuksdorJ 329; 

 Peshastin, Sandberg <& Leiberg 497, Leavenworth, Savage 45; Blue Mountains, Piper 2424; 

 without locality, Vasey in 1889. 



Zonal distribution: Hudsonian or Canadian. 



AQUILEGIA. Columbine. 



Flowers scarlet and yellow 1. A. formosa. 



Flowers wholly yellow 2. A. Jiavescens. 



