736 (\VU); F'orest Grove, Jos. \V. Marsh (WU); Myrtle Creek Canyon, 

 Douglas Co., April 7, 1927, J. \V. Thompson 2049 (VVU); Summit of the Sis- 

 kiyou Mts., south of Ashland, April 11, 1927, J. W. Thompson 2189 (WU). 



Id.vho: The species is commonly credited to this state. No evidence 

 to con firm this exists in the V. S. National Herbarium, the New York Botanical 

 Garden, or any of the herbaria cited. The only possible specimen seen is one 

 from Clear Water, Oregon, Rev. Mr. Spalding (G). The plant has not been 

 found since near Fort Lapwai or Spalding, Idaho, where Mr. Spalding lived 

 and collected most of the specimens. However, he made several trips to Walla 

 Walla to visit his friend and fellow missionary Whitman. It seems likely that 

 Spalding found the plant on one of these journeys, as the plant is extremely 

 abundant and showy in the vicinity of Walla Walla and along the Touchet 

 River. It is unlikely that if this attractive little plant grew in the region of 

 Lapwai, that it would have escaped the attention of the considerable number 

 of botanists who have lived and worked in Pullman, Wash., or Moscow, 

 Idaho. Balsamorhiza Careyana Gray presents a similar case. Dr. Gray de- 

 scribed it from a Spalding specimen, labeled "Sandy plains. Clear Water, on 

 the Kooskooskie." This big showy Balsamroot does not now grow nearer 

 than the mouth of the Palouse River, about a hundred miles to the westward. 

 All of the specimens collected by the Rev. Mr. Spalding were given the uniform 

 printed label, "Clearwater, Oregon." 



California: common on barren spots, Kneeland Prairie, altitude 2500 

 ft., May 4, 1913, /. P. Tracy 4048 (G); Red Mt., Mendocino Co., May 21- 

 28, 1902, Alice Eastwood (G); Surprise Valley, N. E. Cal. Lemmon (G); Camp 

 Blaisdell, 1879, Dr. W. Matthews (G); Lassen Co., June 1878, Mrs. R. M. 

 Austin (G); abundant, miles of plains and hillside yellow with it, from April 

 1, Yreka, Siskiyou Co., April 18, 1876, E. L. Greene 703 (G); Mariposa, 

 April 1888, /. W. Congdon 501 (G). 



State College of Washington, Pullman, Washington. 



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