PIPER FLORA OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTOX. 429 



LiGUSTicuM TENCiFOLiuM S. Wats. was included in Suiisdorf's list on the basis of the 

 Suksdorf specimen above cited. 



4. Ligusticum purpureum Coult. & Rose, Contr. Nat. Herb. 7: 137. 1900. 



Type locality: "Goat Mountains, Washington." Collected by Allen. 



Range: Cascade Mountains of Washington. 



Specimens examined: Mount Rainier, Piper 2009, August, 1895: Allen 259; near Mount 

 Adams, Henderson, August, 1892; Horseshoe Basin, Elmer 706: Mount Adams, Suksdo>fF>Sl. 



Zonal distribution: Hudsonian. 



Related to the above species, but apparently distinct, are the following specimens: Mount 

 Rainier, Piper 629; Stevens Pass, Sandherg cfc Leiberg 731; Whited 1464; Wenachc Moun- 

 tains, Cotton 1685; Cascade Mountains, Tweedy 288. Better material is needed to clear 

 up the matter. 



Ligusticum scothicum L. Sp. PI. 1: 2.50. 1753. Type locality, "Ad litoia Maris in 

 Anglia, Suecia." Range, salt marshes along the east coast from Labrador (and up the 

 St. Lawrence) to Connecticut; along the entire Alaskan coast; also coasts of northern Asia 

 and Europe. "Mouth of the Columbia." according to Hooker, basing on Douglas. a "Not 

 rare along coast at Shoalwater Bay," according to A. Gray, basing on Cooper. & The 

 species is common on the Alaskan coast, but there are no specimens preserved in American 

 herbaria to show that it occurs on the Washington coast. 



GLEHNIA. 



1. Glehnia littoralis (A. Gray) Schmidt, Mem. Acad. Petrop. VH. 12-: 138. 1868, as 

 syn.; Coult. & Rose, Contr. Nat. Herb. 7: 165. 1900. 



Cymopterus littoralis A. Gray, Pac. R. Rep. 12-': 62. 1860. 



Phellopterus littoralis Schmidt, Mem. Acad. Petrop. VH. 12- : 138. 1868. 



Type locality: "On the sands of the seashore at Shoalwater Bay." Washington. Col- 

 lected by Cooper. 



Range: Sand}' seashores from Oregon to Alaska; also in Korea and Japan. 



Specimens examined: Oyhut, Lamb 1249; Shoalwater Bay, Cooper; Whidby Island, 

 Gardner 138; Clallam County, Elmer 2768; Ilwaco, Piper 5002. 



Zonal distribution: Humid Transition. 



PTERYXIA. 



Leaves with pale rigid segments 1. P. terebinthina. 



Leaves greener with segments not rigid 2. P.foeniculacea. 



1. Pteryxia terebinthina (Hook.) Coult. & Rose, Contr. Nat. Herb. 7: 171. 1900. 



Selinxtn terebinthinuin Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 266. pi. 95. 1834. 



Cymopterus terebinihinus Torr. & Gr. Fl. 1: 624. 1840. 



Pteryxia terebinthacea Nutt.; Torr. & Gr. Fl. 1: 624. 1840, as synonym. 



Type locality: " Sandy grounds of the Wallawallah River. North-West coast of America." 

 Collected by Douglas. 



Range: Dry ground, eastern Oregon and eastern Washington. 



Specimens ex.\mined: Cascade Mountains to Fort Colville, Lyall in 1860; Falcon Valley. 

 Suksdorf 129; Morgans Ferry, Suksdorf 317; Atanum River, Flett 1295; Pasco, Hindshaw, 

 May, 1896; Piper 2980; Henderson, May, 1892; Hunts Junction, Leckenby, April, 1898; 

 Walla Walla region, Brandegee 803; junction Crab and Wilson creeks, Sandberg d' Leiberg 

 230: Moxee to North Yakima, Griffiths ci: Cotton 39: Prosser, Co/ton 1080: Rock Creek, 

 Cotton 957. 



Zonal distribution: Upper Sonoran. 



aFl. Bor. Am. 1: 265. 1834. 6 Pac. R. R. Rep. 12^: 62. 1860. 



