COULTER AND ROSE—NORTH AMERICAN UMBELLIFERAE. 5T 
Type locality, “Sin wet ground, San Antonio River (Monterey 
* « ao « 
County), California; collected by G. 2. Vasey, no, 222, July 1880; 
type in Herb. Canby (now in College of Pharmacy, New York City). 
Apparently at low levels, central California. 
Specimens examined: 
CALIFORNIA: Type specimens as cited under type locality, Lemmon; Chico, Butte 
County, Mrs. R. M. Austin, in 1883; Wilson Creek, near Vacaville, Sonoma 
County, Jepson, September 30, 1895; near Elmira, Solano County, Jepson, 
June 13, 1893; near Escalon and Burnet, lower San Joaquin, Santa Clara 
County, Jepson, July, 1896. 
29, Eryngium parishii C. & R., sp. nov. 
Low, much branched at base, the slender stems erect or spreading, 
1 to 4 dm. long: basal leaves from simple to pinnate, the blades or 
segments from laciniate-toothed to cleft, tapering into a long more or 
less spinosely-toothed petiole; inflorescence beginning near the base 
and diffusely branching, the heads on very short peduncles, nearly 
globose, about 6 mm. long: bracts very narrow and rigid, longer than 
the heads, 12 to 18 mm. long, with a few spinose bristles at base and 
not at all scarious-margined; bractlets very narrow and rigid, much 
longer than the flowers, about the size of the bracts. with short scar- 
ious margin below (broadening upward to a short lobe on each side), 
at the top of which and just above there may or may not be a few 
bristles, the margined base inclosing the fruit and falling off with it; 
sepals ovate, scarious-margined, 1.5 mm. long, tapering above into a 
cuspidate-bristly tip: styles longer than the sepals. 
Type locality, Oceanside, San Diego County, Cal.; collected by 
S. By Parish, no. 4436, in 1897; type in U.S. Nat. Herb. 
Sandy ground, southern California and extending into Lower Cali- 
fornia. 
Specimens examined: 
CALIFORNIA: Mesas near San Diego, Oreuif, June, 1882 and 1889; San Luis Obispo 
County, Lemmon 61, June, 1887; Oceanside, San Diego County, altitude 0 to 
15 meters, Parish 4436, June 11-16, 1897, 
The following forms are doubtful because of immaturity or insufficiency of material, 
and we do not venture to characterize them fully or to name them, but they seem 
sufficiently distinct to mention, and may prove to be new species. They all belong 
to the group with long styles, and bractlets conspicuously scarious-winged below, 
A specimen collected by M. 2. Jones, no, 3602, near Auburn, Placer County, Cal., 
July 8, 1882, has conspicuously spinose-bristly bracts and bractlets much exceeding 
the head, but the flowers are in bud and basal leaves are lacking. The station of the 
specimen is also quite distinet from that of the species it most resembles. 
A specimen collected by George Hansen, no. 391, near Pinegrove, Amador County, 
Cal., at an altitude of 560 meters, June 17, 1898, isa low plant, with basal leaves 
pinnately cut into distant almost spine-like segments. 
