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PIPER FLORA OF THE STATE OF AVASHINGTON. 481 



Range: Vancouver Island to California. 



Specimens examined: Fairhaven, Suksdorf 996; Puget Sound, Suckley; Port Ludlow, 

 Binns, September 25, 1890; Clallam County, Elmer 2754; Fairhaven, Piper, July 3, 1897; 

 Spokane, Piper 2275; without locality, Cooper in 1854. 



Zonal distribution: Humid Transition. 



The two forms distinguished by Doctor Gray are probably worthy of recognition, but 

 unfortunately his subspecies hracteosa is clearly based on the original Lithospermum 

 lycopsoides. 



PIPTOCALYX. 



1. Piptocalyx circumscissus (Hook. & Am.) Torr. Bot. Wilkes Exped. 17: 414. 1874. 



Lithospermumi circumscissuni Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 370. 1840. 



Echinospermum. circumscissum A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 58. 1875. 



Type locality: "Snake Fort, Snake Countrj^" Idaho. Collected by Tolmie. 



Range: Washington to Wyoming, Utah, and California. 



Specimens examined: Morgans Ferry, Suksdorf 404; Sunnyside, Cotton 351; North 

 \akima, Henderson, May 26, 1892; Pasco, Piper 2966; Ilindshav) 30; Ainsworth, Brandt- 

 gee 991; Wilson Creek, Sandberg dfc Leiberg 228. 



Zonal distribution: Upper Sonoran. 



OBEOCARYA. 



Corolla tube exceeding the calyx 1.0. leucophaea. 



Corolla tube not exceeding the calyx. 



Herbage not very hispid, but decidedly canescent and the inflores- 

 cence fulvescent 4.0. sericea. 



Herbage very hispid; inflorescence not fulvescent. 



Inflorescence very dense; leaves obtuse 2. 0. celosioides. 



Inflorescence not very dense; leaves acute 3. O. spiculifera. 



1. Oreocarya leucophaea (Dougl.) Greene, Pittonia 1: 58. 1887. 

 Myosotis leucophaea Dougl.; Lehm. Pug. 2: 22. 1830. 

 Eritrichium leucophaeum A. DC. Prod. 10: 129. 1846. 

 KrynitsTcia leucophaea A. Gray, Syn. Fl. ed. 2. 2': 430. 1886. 



Type locality: "Arid barrens of the Columbia, and of its nortliern and southern tribu- 

 taries." Collected b}^ Douglas. 



Range: British Columbia to California and Utah. 



Specimens examined: Columbia River, latitude 46° to 49°, Lyall in 1860; Morgans 

 Ferry , Sulcsdorf 407 ; arid barrens of the Columbia, Z^oujffes; Egbert Springs, Sandberg db 

 Leiberg 93, 373; Scott, Leckenby, May 16, 1898; Pasco, Piper, July 11, 1897; Hindshaw 

 2; Elmer 1056; Piper 2987; Walla Walla region, Bramlegee 997; Wallula, Cotton 1027. 



Zonal distribution: Upper Sonoran. 



2. Oreocarya celosioides Eastwood, Bull. Torr. Club 30: 240. 1903. 



Type locality: "From the banks of the Columbia, eastern Washington." Collected 

 by Howell. 



Range: Eastern Washington. 



Specimens examined: Rock Island, Sandberg & Leiberg 440; Rattlesnake Mountains, 

 Cotton 359; near Columbus, ^uLsc/o;;/, June 10, 1886; Klickitat, /iowe/Z, June, 1879; without 

 locality, Brandegee 996. 



Zonal distribution: Arid Transition. 



This species has been confused with 0. glomerata (Pursh) Greene. 



3. Oreocarya spiculifera sp. nov. 



Tufted from a stout woody caudex, the whole plant pallid; basal leaves numcror.s, 

 crowded, spatulate-oblanceolate, acute, only the midnerve evident, densely pubescent cr.] 

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