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22. Lomatium brevifolium Coult. & Rose, Contr. Nat. Herb. 7: 232. 1900. 



Peucedanum triternatum brevifolium Coult. & Rose, Rev. N. A. Umb. 70. 1888. 



Type locality: "Klickitat County," Washington. Collected by Howell. 



Range: Oregon and Washington. 



Specimens examined: Columbus, Suksdorf, June 10, 1886; Klickitat River, SuksdorJ 

 639; Flett 1303; Klickitat County, Howell 1368; Pasco, Hindshaw 15. 



Lomatium dasycarpum (Torr. & Gr.) Coult. & Rose {Peitcedanum dasycarpum Torr. 

 & Gr.) is a Califomian species reported from Washington on the basis of specimens col- 

 lected in KHckitat County by Joseph Howell, a The Howell specimens prove to be L. 

 canbyi Coult. & Rose. 



LEPTOTAENIA. 



Foliage puberulent. 



Fruit sessile ; flowers purple 1 . L. disseda. 



Fruit pedicelled ; flowers yellow 2. L. mvMjida. 



Foliage glabrous. 



Fruit 10 to 12 mm. broad. 3. L. purpurea. 



Fruit 4 to 6 mm. broad. 



Leaflets rigid ; flowers purple 4. L. watsoni. 



Leaflets not rigid; flowers yellow, long-pediceled 5. L. salmonijlora. 



1. Leptotaenia dissecta Nutt.; Torr. & Gr. Fl. 1: 630. 1840. 

 Ferula dissecta A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 348. 1868. 



Ferula dissoluta S. Wats, in Brewer & Wats. Bot. Cal. 1 : 271. 1876. 



Type locality: "Plains of the Oregon (Columbia) near the confluence of the Wahla- 

 met." Collected by Nuttall. 



Range: From northern California to Vancouver Island. 



Specimens examined: Klickitat County, Howell, Suksdorf; Rattlesnake Mountains, 

 Cotton 332; Clallam County, Elmer 2764 ; 'Wenache, Whited 1340 and 1058, 1207, April 

 9, 1900; Piper 2013; Ellensburg, Whited 320; Colville, Lyall in 1861. 



Zonal distribution : Arid Transition. 



2. Leptotaenia multifida Nutt.; Torr. & Gr. Fl. 1: 630. 1840. 

 Ferula multifida A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 348. 1868. 



Type locality: "Plains of the Oregon [Columbia], east of Wallawallah, and in the Blue 

 Mountains." Collected by Nuttall. 



Range: From western Wyoming and Montana to New Mexico and west to Washington 

 and California. 



Specimens examined: Blue Mountains, Piper, July, 1896; between Coulee City and 

 Waterville, SpUlman, May, 1896; Medical Lake, Sandberg *& Leiberg 54; Sprague, Hender- 

 son, May, 1892; Sandberg & Leiberg 212; Pullman, Elmer 136; Steptoe, Vasey, May 15, 

 1901 ; Coulee City, Piper 3845; Colville Reservation, Griffiths <& Cotton 403; Chelan Butte, 

 Griffiths <& Cotton 185. 



Zonal distribution: Arid Transition. 



3. Leptotaenia purpurea (S. Wats.) Coult. & Rose, Rev. N. A. Umb. 52. 1888. 

 Ferula purpurea S. W^ats. Proc. Am. Acad. 21: 453. 1886. 



Type locality: "On rocky hillsides near the lower Columbia River, in Klickitat County, 

 Wash." Collected by Suksdorf. 



Range: Klickitat County, Washington, and adjacent Oregon. 



Specimens examined: Simcoe Mountains, Howell in 1879; west Klickitat County, 

 Sulcidorf 98, 325, 26, 281. 



a Brewer & Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 452. 1880. 



