PIPER FLORA OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. 451 



4. Gentiana oregana Engelm.; A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2': 122. 1878. 



Gentiana affinis ovata A. Gray, Bot. Cal. 1: 483. 1876, not G. ovata F. G. Dietr.VoIlst. 

 Lexik. Gaertn. Nachtr. 3: 458. 1815-21. 



Type locality: " From near San Francisco." Collected by Bolander. 



Range: British Columbia to Idaho and California. 



Speclmens e.\amined: Fish Lake, Dunv, August 8, 1900; Pend Oreille River, Lyall in 

 1S61; Spokane County, Suhsdorf 937; Cheney, Mrs. Susan Tucker in 1890; Pullman, 

 Piper 1623; Blue Mountains, Piper, July, 1896; Davis Ranch, Spokane County, Kreager 

 304 ; Clarks Springs, Spokane County, Kreager 564. 



Zonal distribution: Arid Transition. 



5. Gentiana affinis Griseb. in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 56. 1838. ' 



Type locality: "Carlton House to Edmonton House," Collected by Drummond. 



Range: British Columbia to Minnesota, south to California and New Mexico. 



Specimens examined: Parrotts Post-office, ffuZ^ 552; Spokane County, iSM^stZor/" 938; 

 Mission, Kreager 489. 



Zonal distribution: Arid Transiton. 



"Abundant in mountain valleys, between Spokane and Kettle Falls, in alluvial deposits." 

 Douglas, according to Hooker. 



Gentiana douglasiana patens Griseb. in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 60. 1838. Near Fort 

 Vancouver, Garry, according to Hooker. If the plant really occurs in Washington it has 

 not at any rate been seen since. It has been collected at Port Renfrew, Vancouver 

 Island, by Rosendahl & Brand. 



FRASERA. 



Plants 1 to 2 meters tall; leaves marginless. 



Corolla blue-purple, a single gland on each lobe \. F. fastigiata. 



Corolla greenish, two glands on each lobe 2. F. speciosa. 



Plants about ^ meter tall; leaves with firm white margins. 



Whole plant finely pubescent 3. F. albicaulis. 



Whole plant glabrous 4. F. nitida. 



1, Frasera fastigiata (Pursh) Heller, Bull. Torr. Club 24: 312. 1897. 

 SwertiafastigiataV\M-sh,Y\. 1: \Q\. 1814. 



Frasera thyrsiflora Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. 3: 288. 1851. 



Frasera carolinensis Walt. err. det. Griseb. in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 66. 1838. 



Type locality: "On the Missouri Flats near the Rocky Mountains." Collected by 

 Lewis. The Lewis specimen in the herbarium of the Philadelphia Academy of Science is 

 ticketed: "In m.oist places on the Squamash Flats," that is, Weippe, Idaho. The plant 

 does not occur on the Missouri, Pursh's note being doubtless an error. 



Range: Northern Idaho and adjacent Washington. 



Specimens examined: Spokane County, SuJcsdorf 939; Henderson 2211; Rockford, 

 Piper; Palouse, Henderson, Ju]y 15, 1892; Kamiak Butte, Elmer 802; Piper, July 20, 1899. 



According to Hooker also collected by Douglas, in "mountain valleys, Spokane and 

 Kettle Falls." 



Zonal distribution: Arid Transition and Canadian. 



This species is really an inhabitant of rather dry pine woods. At "Quamash Flats" 

 the plant occurs only at the very margins of the moist meadows, but it is abundant in 

 the pine woods adjoining. 



2. Frasera speciosa Dougl.; Griseb. in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 66, 1. 153. 1838 



Type locality: "On the low hills near Spokan and Salmon Rivers and subalpine parts 

 of the Blue Mountains, near the Kooskooka River." Collected by Douglas. 

 Range: East W^ashington to W3'oming, south to California and New Mexico. 

 Specimens examined: Upper N aches River, ffcrwZerson, June, 1892. 



