54 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Specimens examined : 
New Hampsuire: Walpole, Fernald 50, August 8, 1899. 
Ontario: Near Ottawa, Macoun 4976, August 4, 1894. 
New York: Near Ithaca, Coville, June 21, 1885; between the Hudson and Bronx 
rivers, Bicknell, September 4, 1892, and July 28, 1895. 
Disrrict or Cotumpra: Chevy Chase road, Pollard 280, May 26, 1895, 
Virernia: Near Belfield, Greenville County, Heller 998, June 19, 1895. 
Norru Carona: Near Biltmore and slopes of Busbee Mountain, Biltmore Herb. 
882, 4816, in 1896 and 1897. 
West Vircinta: Near Sago, Upshur County, Pollock, May 18, 1895. 
Onto: Near Salem, Wilkinson, June, 1887. 
Missourt: Near Independence, Bush 663, 730, June 9—July 15, 1896. 
lowa: Fink, in 1894. 
Nepraska: Ponca, Clements 2559, June 15, 1893, 
Minnesota: Near Winona, Holzinger, June 19, 1889; Fort Snelling, Mearns, June 
3, 1891. 
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5. Sanicula canadensis I. Sp. PL 1: 235. I 
S. marylandica canadensis Torr. Rl U.S. 302.) 1824. 
S. floridana Bicknell, Ball. Torr. Bot. Club 24: 581, 1897, 
From slender and nearly simple to stout and much branched, 3 to 
12 dm. high, the branching mostly alternate and dichotomous; basal 
leaves palmately 3-parted, the lateral leaflets divided nearly to the 
base, giving the appearance of a 5-parted leaf; the divisions mostly 
sharply cut and serrate, the teeth more or less mucronate-tipped; 
upper leaves similar, but with shorter petioles, becoming sessile or 
nearly so above; umbels irregular, one to few-rayed, with involucre 
of few leaf-like or small bracts, and involucels of few small bractlets; 
sterile flowers few and on short pedicels; fruit sessile, but distinctly 
stipitate, suborbicular, 3 to 6 mm. long (including bristles), the calyx 
inconspicuous among the bristles; styles shorter than the calyx; seed- 
face convex. 
Type locality, ** Virginia.” 
From Vermont to Florida, and westward to Nebraska, Kansas, and 
Texas. 
Specimens examined: Among the various numerous specimens examined we cite only 
those from well-known sets. 
New York: Between the Hudson aud Bronx rivers, Bicknell, October 14, 1894. 
PENNSYLVANIA: Near mouth of Tucquan, Lancaster County, A.A. Heller & 2. 
Gertrude Heller, September 12, 1891, 
Virainta: Near Belfield, Greenville County, /Teller 982, June 19, 1893. 
Wesr VirGcinia: Near Oceana, Wyoming County, Morris 1330, August 22, 1900. 
Georaia: On Little Stone Mountain, Dekalb County, Smad/, July 25, 1895. 
AuaBAMA: Auburn, Lee County, Harle & Baker, May 28, 1898; Lee and Madison 
Counties, Pollard & Maxon 38, 84, 379, July 9-August 1, 1900. 
Tennessee: Knox County, Kearney, July 9, 1894; Wolf Creek, Cocke County, 
Kearney 709, September 2, 1897. 
Kentucky: Cliffs of Kentucky River, Rose, August 15, 1895. 
Missourt: Courtney, Jackson County, Bush 709, July 14, 1896. 
Kansas: Near Osborne City, Shear 173, July 20, 1894; Cowley County, White, 
June 28, 1898. 
