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Range: Alaska to Labrador, southward to Washington, Colorado, Saskatchewan, and 

 New England. 



Specimens examined: Cascade Mountains, latitude 49°, Lyall in 1859; Silverton, 

 Bouck 94; Mount Adams, /SwAr^/or/" 388; Goose Lake, Flett 1315; Stevens Pass, Samlberg 

 cfe Leiberg 722; Simcoe Mountains, Howell; Lake Chelan, Lake <fc HvU 548; without 

 locality, Vasey in 1889. 



Zonal distribution: Canadian and Iludsonian. 



3. Viburnum ellipticum Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 280. 1833. 



Viburnum ellipticum macrocarpum Suksdorf, Deutsch. But. Monatss. 18: 97. 1900. 



Tyi'e locality: "Common on the blanches of the Columbia near its confluence with 

 the Pacific." Collected by Douglas. 



Range: Washington to north Ciflifornia. 



Specimens examined: Lower Cascades, Suksdorf in 1886; west Klickitat County, 

 Suksdorf 1213; Cape Horn, Pijwr 5019. 



According to Suksdorf there are two distinct subspecies, one distinguished by having 

 much larger fruit than the other. 



VALERIANACEAE. Valerian Family. 



Perennials; calyx limb of 5 to 15 plumose slender lobes, inrolled 



until fruiting Valehiana. 



Annuals; calyx limb obsolete or nearly so Valekianella. 



VALERIANA. 



Leaflets thick, entire ; root large, fusiform 1 . V. cercUophylla. 



Leaflets thin, mostly serrate; rootsttx-ks creeping. 



Tube of corolla slender, twice as long as the limb; stamens 



included 3. V. columbiana. 



Tube of corolla short, less than twice the limb. 



Leaflets coarsely dentate 2. V. sitchensis. 



Leaflets entire or nearly so 2a. V. sitchensin .scouleri. 



1. Valeriana ceratophylla (Hook). Tobacco hoot. 

 Valeriana edulis Nutt.; Torr. & Gr. Fl. 2: 48. 1841. 



Patrinia ceratophylla Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 290. 1833. 



Type locality: "Common in low, wet soils between the Kettle Falls and Spokan." 

 Collected by Douglas. 



Range: British Columbia to Arizona and New Mexico and eastward to Ohio. 



Specimens examined: Klickitat County, Howell; Ellensburg, Whited 6; Sprague, 

 Henderson, May 30, 1892; Spokane County, Suksdorf 329; Medical Lake, Sandherg & 

 Leiberg 53; "Kettle Falls to Spokane, plentiful," Douglas, Pullman, Piper 1506; Hull 

 541; Elmer 822. 



Zonal distribution : Arid Transition. 



2. Valeriana sitchensis Bong. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. VL 2: 145. 1832. 

 Type locality: Sitka. 



Range: Alaska to Oregon and Idaho. 



Specimens examined: Olympic Mountains, J. M. Grant in 1890; Baldy Peak, Lamb 

 1339a; Mount Adams, Henderson, August 8, 1892; Suksdorf 4Q7; Mashcl River, Piper 

 2629; Silverton, 5owcA: 99; Goose Lake, 7^Ze« 1203; N&son Creek, Sandberg d; Leiberg 691; 

 Mount Rainier, Piper, August, 1895; Wenache Mountains, Elmer 440; Okanogan County, 

 Whited 47, 182; Cascade Mountains, Steinweg in 1894; Horseshoe Basin, Lake <& Hull 540; 

 Blue Mountains, Piper, July 15, 1896; without locality, Vasey in 1889; Clallam County, 

 Elmer 2792. 



Zonal distribution: Iludsonian. 



In Cooper's Report, p. 64, this plant was erroneously referred to V. capitata Willd. 



