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3. Budbeckia alpicola Piper, Erythea 7: 173. 1899. 



Type locwlity: Mount Stuart, Wasliiiigtoii. Collected by Elmer. 



Ranue: Cascade Mountains, Washington. 



Specimens e.xamined: Mount Stuart, Elmer 1171; Sandberg dfe Leiberg 578; Wenache 

 Mountains, Whiled 1417. 



B ALS AMOBHIZ A . 



Ligulcs persisting: akenes canescent 1. B. careyana. 



Ligules dcriduous: akenes glabrous. 

 Loaves entire or merely dentate. 



Herbage silvery-canescent : involucre woolly 2. B. sacjitlata. 



Herbage green: involucre not woolly 3. B. deltoidea. 



Leaves pinnately cleft, parted, or divided. 



Herbage canescent; involucre puberulent to lanatc 4. B. balnamorhiza. 



Herbage green. 



Leaves deltoid, usually laciniate, but varying to coarsely 



detitate or rarely entire; involucre more or less woolly. 5. B. terebirithacea. 

 Li'aves parted into numerous segments, hirsute; involucre 



hirsute, rarely w(K)lly G. B. hirsuta. 



1. Balsamorhiza careyana A. Gray, PI. Fendl. 81. 1849. 



Type uxality: Idaho. "Sandy plains, Clear Water, on the KtKJskooskie." Collected 

 by Spalding. 



Rancje: Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon, and perhaps adjacent Idaho. 



Specimens examined. Uitzville, Sandberg cfc Leiberg lOG; Sprague, Sandberg & Leiberg, 

 June, 1893; Ephrata to Ritzville, Griffiths tfc Cotton 483; Prosser to Rattlesnake Mountains, 

 Griffiths dc Cotton 10; Wallula, Cotton 1052; Delight, Cotton 1004; Washtucna, Cotton 970; 

 Prosser, Cotton 1084, 1105; Walla Walla region, Brandegee 891. 



Zonal distribution: Up|K'r St)noran. 



This species has not since In-en found near Lapwai, Spalding's "Clearwater" locality. 

 It is, however, abundant on the lower parts of Snake River and the type may have there 

 been gathered, as some of Spalding's specimens were collected "GO miles west of Clear- 

 water." 



2. Balsamorhiza sagittata (Pursh) Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7: 350. 1840. 

 Buphthalmuni sagittatum Pureh, Fl. 2: 5(i4. 1814. 



Espeletia sagittata Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7: 38. 1834. 



Espeletia helianthoides Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phiia. 7: 39. 1834. 



Balsamorhiza helianthoides Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7: 351. 1840. 



Type locality: "On dry barren hills in the Rocky Mountains." Collected by Lewis. 

 The exact place is Lewis and Clark Pass, Montana. 



Ranue: British Columbia and Montana to California and Colorado. 



Specimens examined: Colville, Lyall in 1861; Spokane County, Suksdorf 3&i; Sand- 

 berg c^ Leiberg 23; Spokane, Henderson, May 3, 1892, Flathead River, Wyeth; Pullman, 

 Elmer 828, Piper 1594; without locality, Vasey 496; Rock Creek, Cotton 961; Wenache 

 Mountains, Piper 2668, apparently a hybrid between deltoidea and sagittaia, with which 

 it occurred. 



Zonal distribution: Arid Transition. 



3. Balsamorhiza deltoidea Nutt Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7: 351. 1840. 



Type locality: "Outlet of the Wahlamet, in wet open places," Oregon. Collected 

 by Nuttall. 



Range: British Columbia to Idaho and California. 



Specimens examined: Whidby Island near Coupevilie, 6'arcZ7i«/' 180; Lake Park, Piper, 

 July 27, 1895, Tacoma, Flett 43; Vancouver, Piper 4945; Nisqually, Wilkes Expedition; 



