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 16. Epilobiiuu fastigiatvuu (Nutt.) 



Epilobium affine fastigiatum Nutt.: Torr. & Gr. Fl. 1: 489. 18«0. 



Efilobium glahtrrimum latifolium Barbey in Brewer & Wats. Hot. Cal. 1: 220. 1876. 



Epilobium glaberrimum fastigiatunt Trelease, Rep. Mo. Hot. Gard. 2: 105. 1891. 



Type ixx'.\uty: " Plains of the Oregon." Collected by Niittall. 



Range: Washington to California and Utah. 



Speclmens EXA.MINED: Olympic Mountains, Flett 115: Mount Rainier, Allen 19.^; Smith 

 755; Piper 2167, August 1895; Mount Adams', Henderson 2444; Mount Stuart, Brandeqee 

 777; Cascade Mountains, latitude 49*, Lyall in 18.59: Dlue Mountains, Homer 28S; Clallam 

 County, Elwer 2559. 



15a. Epilobium fastigiatiim glaberrimum (Barl)ey). 

 Epilobium glaberrimum Barl)ey in Brewer &. Wats. Bot. Cal. 1: 220. 1876. 

 Type locality: Yosemite Valley, California. 

 Range: Washington to California and Nevada. 

 Specimens examined: ^¥hite Salmon, 5uil«(2or/ in 1878. 



16. Epilobium pringleanum Hau.ssk. Mittheil. Geogr. Ge^sells. Jena 7: 5. 1888. 

 Epilobium oregonense gracillimum Trelease, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 2: 109. 1891. 



Type locality: "California, mountains about the headwaters of the Sacramento River." 

 Range: Washington to California. 



Specimens examined: Falcon Valley, Sukadorf, July, 1886; White Salmon, Suksdorf'm. 

 1878; -Mount .\dams, Suksdorf 552: without locality, Vasey in 1889. 



17. Epilobium clavatum Trelease, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 2: 111. 1891. 

 Ty^e locality: Kicking Horse River, British Columbia. 



Range: British Columbia to Oregon and Utah. 



Specimens examined: Olympic Mountains, Piper 2350, 2349; Mount Rainier, Piper 

 2165, 2164; Allen 192; Goat Mountains, Allen 252; Mount Adams, Sukadorf, September, 

 1877, August 28, 1886; North Fork Bridge Ci-eek, Elmer 654; Clallam County, Elmer 2570. 



Zonal distribution: Arctic. 



18. Epilobium leptocarpum macounii Trelea.se, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 2: 103. 1891. 

 Type locality: "Lake Athat)a.sca." Collected by Macoun. 



Range: British America to Washington. 



Specimens examined: Olympic Mountains, Piper 2352, 2356; Mount Adams, Suks- 

 dorf 551. 



Zonal distribution: Hudsonian. 



19. Epilobium mirabile Trelease, sp. nov. 



Turioniferous; stems rather slender, terete, crisp-pubescent, ascending from near the base, 

 about a foot high, with rather short strict branches; leaves scarcely 25 mm. long, somewhat 

 ascending, broadly ovate-lanceolate,obtuse,remotely very low denticulate, rounded at base 

 and very short-petioled, rather thick, minutely crisp-puberulent or at length subglabrescent; 

 inflorescence somewhat glandular ; flowers suberect, crowded at summit; petals about 5 mm. 

 long, pale; capsules short-.stalked, about 40 mm. long, curved, fusiform; seeds as in E. 

 paniculatum, the at first very white ample coma soon falling and at length dingy. — Meadows 

 at 1,500 meters altitude, in the Olympic Mountains, Washington {Piper, August, 1895, no. 

 2344).— A very peculiar plant, with the seed and foliage characters of E. minutum, but 

 exaggerated, and the turions of the delicatum section, in which in stem and pubescence 

 characters it falls near E. leptocarpum. 



20. Epilobium ursinum Parish; Trelease, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 2: 100. 1891. 

 Type locality: San Bernardino County, California. 



Range: Washington to California. 



Specimens examined: FsAconYaWej, Suksdorf 214S, 372; Klickitat Kiver, Flett 1238. 



