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PIPER FLORA OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. 581 



Yakima, Mrs. Steinweg; LecJcenby, April 22, 1896; Mount Stuart, Sandberg & Leiherg 573; 

 without locality, Vasey in 1889; Umtanum Creek, Cotton 1140. 



The typical plant occurs only west of the Cascade Mountains, and has broad, deeply 

 cordate, usually crenate-dentate leaves, while in the Eastern Washington plant the leaves 

 are longer and narrow, entire or nearly so, and but little cordate. Perhaps two species 

 may be involved. 



Zonal distribution: Transition. 



4. Balsamorhiza balsomorhiza (Hook.) Heller, Cat. N. A. PI. 7. 1898. 



Heliopsis'i balsamorhiza Hook Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 310. 1833. 



Balsamorhiza hooTceri Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7: 349. 1840. 



Type locality : "Common on the gravelly banks of the Columbia near Fort Vancouver." 

 Collected by Douglas. 



Range: Washington to Utah and California. 



Specimens examined: Falcon Valley, Sulcsdorf 357 , 358; Klickitat River, Suksdorf 359; 

 Simcoe Mountains, Howell; Rattlesnake Mountains, Cotton 568; Mill Plain near Vancouver, 

 Howell, June 4, 1880. 



Zonal distribution: Transition. 



6. Balsamorhiza terebinthacea (Hook.) Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7:349. 1840. 



Heliopsis terebinthacea Hook FL Bor. Am 1 : 310. 1833. 



Type locality: "Common at Fort Vancouver on the Columbia and in the grounds of 

 the interior." Collected by Douglas. 



Range: Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. 



Specimens examined. Falcon Valley, Sulcsdorf SGQ, 363, 135; Rock Island, Sandberg cfc 

 Leiberg 460; Klickitat River, Sulcsdorf 360, 362, 361; Ellensburg, Piper, May 20, 1897; 

 60 miles west of Clearwater Spalding. 



Zonal distribution: Transition. 



6. Balsamorhiza hirsuta Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil Soc. 7: 349. 1840. 



Type locality: "Dry plains cast of Walla Walla, near the Blue Mountains, and in the 

 Grande Ronde prairie." Collected by Nuttall. 



Range: British Columbia to Utah and California. 



Specimens examined Wenache Mountains, Elmer 476; Whited 1354J; Wenache, Whited 

 6, 1354, Ellensburg, Piper 2718, May 20, 1897, Cloman Mountain, Henderson, ifuno 14, 

 1892; Coulee City Piper 3853; Watcrville Whited 1219; "Wallah Wallah," Nuttam, without 

 locality Vasey in 1889, Wenache Mountains, Cotton 1193; Spipen [N aches] River, Wilkes 

 Expedition. 



Zonal distribution: Transition. 



WYETHIA. 



Leaves lance-oblong, glabrous, varnished 1. W. amplexicaulis. 



Leaves lanceolate, sparsely hirsute . .* 2. W. angustifolia. 



1. Wyethia amplexicaulis Nutt Trans Am. Phil Soc. 7: 352. 1840. 

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



Type LOCALITY; "About Flat-head River." Collected by Wyeth. 



Range: British Columbia and Montana to Nevada and California. 



Specimens examined. Columbia River latitude 46° to 49°, LyaJJ; White Salmon, 

 Suksdorf; Peehastin, Sandberg & Leiberg 532; Pullman, Lake & Hull 750; Piper 1595; 

 without locality, Vasey 497, Wenache Mountains, Griffiths & Cotton 113. 



Zonal distribution; Arid Transition. 



2. Wyethia angustifolia (DC.) Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 7: 352. 1840. 

 Helianthus longifohus Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 312. 1834, not Pursh, 1814. 

 Alarconia angustifolia DC Prod. 5: 537. 1836. 



