572 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



SpECfMENS examined: North Yakima, Jfr«. Steinwcj/, August, 1894; TTatt, August, 1895; 

 Falcon Y&\hy, Svkftdorf 39^: White Salmon, SnJcsdorf 39i: Houvll; without locality, Fasey 

 512; Trout Lake, Fleit 1074; Klickitat River, Cotton 1440. 



Zonal distribution. Transition. 



3. Aster campestris Xutt. Trans. Am. Phil. See. 7: 2^3. 1840. 



Type locality: "Along the plains of Lewis River," probably in southern Idaho. Col- 

 lected by Nuttall. 



Range: Washington to Montana and northern California. 



Specimens examined: Falcon Valley, Suksdor/GS; Howell in 1882; Wilson Greek, Lake 

 <fe Hun 815, 816; Sprague, Lake d- Hull, August, 1895, July 9, 1892; Lake Chelan, Ldte <fc 

 Hull 720; Spokane Falls, Watson 195; Spokane County, Sukfulorf 928; Spalding; with- 

 out locality, Brandegee; Walla Walla, Mrs. Anderson; Waitsburg, Homer 550, 553. 



Zonal distribution: Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition. 



3a. Aster campestris suksdorfii subsp. nov. 



Dilfere from true A. camjxstris in being CAiiescent all over with short hairs that are not 

 at all appres.sed. 



Type specimen in the Gray Herbarium. Collected on Little Klickitat River, Octolwr 5, 

 1882, by Suksdorf . 



4. Aster integrifolius Xutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7: 291. 1840. . 



TS'PE ixx'ality: "Near the summit of Thornberg's Pa.s.s." Collected b}- Nuttall. 

 Range: Washington to California, Colorado and Montana. 

 Specimens examined: Blue Mountains, Horner 364. 



6. Aster major (Hook.) Porter, Mem. Torr. Club 6: 325. 1894. 



Aster unalaschensis major Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 7. 1834. 



Aster modestus Lindl.; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 8. 1834. 



AsUr sayianus Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7: 294. 1840. 



Type ix)cality: "Saskatchewan to the Rocky Mountains," or as given by Lindley, 

 "Mountain woods at the mouth of Smoking River, Lat. 56° N." Collected by Drummond. 



Range. British Columbia and Oregon eastward to Ontario. 



Specimens examined: Cascade Mountains, latitude 49°, LyaU in 1859; Nisqually Val- 

 ley, -4//fn 125a; Falcon Valley, Suksdorf Qi; Skokomish River, Piper 2189; plains of 

 Columbia, Nuttall; Beaver Creek, Whited 29; Minastash Canyon, Whited, August 29, 1897; 

 Yakima region, Brandegee 858; Stevens Pass, Whited 1466, Loomis, Elmer 568; Railroad 

 Creek, Elmer 700, Kittitas County, Sandberg <& Leiberg 703; Wind River, Flett 1088; 

 Clealum Creek, Cotton 840. 



Zonal distribution: Canadian. 



6. Aster amethystinus Nutt. Trans. Am Phil. Soc. 7: 294. 1840. 

 Type ixkjality. Salem and Cambridge, Ma.ssachusetts. 



Range: Massachusetts to Iowa; eastern Oregon and eastern Wa.shington. 

 Specimens examined: Okanogan River, Watson 191; Waitsburg, Horner 559; Wawa- 

 wai. Piper 1602. 

 Zonal distribution. Arid Transition and Upper Sonoran. 



7. Aster multiflorus Ait. Hort Kew. 3: 203. 1779. 

 Type ix)cality: "North America." 



Range: British Columbia to Canada, south to Arizona and Georgia 



Specimens examined: North Yakima, Henderson, Octoiicr 5, 1892; Elleasburg, Whited 



853, 591, Colville, Lyall in 1860; Loomis, Elmer 615, Lake Chelan, Lake cfe Hull 799; 



Spokane County, Sutsdor/" 930, Spok&oe, Sandberg, Heller d; McDougai 917 , Sprague, Late 



cfe Hull August 4. 1892, without locality, Lake <& Hull 798, without locality, Vasey; 



without locality, Brandegee 34, without locality, Cooper in 1853, Waitsburg, Horner 23, 



Toppenish, Cotton 774. 

 Zonal distribution; Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition. 



