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Fruit beaked or constricted at apex. 
Foliage almost glabrous. 
Fruit with conspicuous sharp beak.................----- 6. W. divaricata. 
Fruit constricted below the apex and with truncate tip... -. 7. W. leibergi. 
Foliage strigose-pubescent ...0......--..-2-2.----------------- 8. W. brevipes. 
Flowers purple ..........-.2...-..------.----------------------- 9. W. purpurea, 
GuiycosMA.—Fruit glabrous; carpel without caudate attenuation, 
mostly obtuse at base. 
Fruiting rays usually erect, forming a compact cluster of fruits.. 10. W. occidentalis. 
Fruiting rays spreading, forming a loose umbel. 
Foliage puberulent; seed face deeply sulcate..........2.....-.- 11. W. bolanderi. 
Foliage glabrous; seed face slightly concave..................-- 12. W. ambiqua. 
1. Washingtonia claytoni (Michx.) Britton, IIL Fl. 2: 530. 1897. 
Myrrhis claytont Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 170. 1803. 
Osmorhiza brevistylis DC. Prodr. 4: 282. 1830. 
Rather stout, villous-pubescent; leaves 2 to 3-ternate; leaflets 5 to 
5 om. long, acuminate, much cleft and toothed; umbel 4 to 6-rayed, 
with involucre and involucels of few bracts; rays stout, somewhat 
spreading, 2.5 to 5 em. long; pedicels 6 to 20 mm. long; fruit (not 
including the attenuation) 12 mm, long, 2 mm. wide, bristly on the 
ribs; stylopodium and style 1 mm. long, the former slender conical; 
seed face less deeply concave than in W. long/stylis. 
Type locality, ‘tin montibus Alleghanis.” 
In woods, Nova Scotia to the mountains of North Carolina, and 
westward to Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri, and Alabama. 
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Specimens examined: 
Maine: Aroostook County, Fernald 51, July 10, 1893; Leeds, Jennie M. Haskell, 
August, 1893. 
Vermont: Peacham, Alice I. Stevens, Jane-September, 1892; Manchester, WA. 
Day 84, July 1, 1898. 
Massacuusetts: Near Boston, Biltmore Herb. 1362. 
New York: Near Ithaca, Cornell Univ. Coll., May, 1875; near Van Cortlandt, 
Pollard, June, 1893; Greene County, Vash, July 2, 1893. 
PENNSYLVANIA: Lancaster County, Small & Heller, May 22, 1891. 
New Jersey: Bergen County, Nash, July 11, 1891; near Guttenberg, Van Sickle, 
May, 1893 and 1895; Tenafly, Pollard, May 26, 1894. 
Disrricr or CoLtumbiaA: Near Washington, Vasey, in 1877; High Island, Pollard 
252, May 19, 1895. 
NorrH Carouina: In the mountains, Vasey, in 1878; Paint Rock, Biltmore Herb. 
1362, May 7, 1896; Hot Springs, Biltmore Herb. 1362, April 27, 1897. 
ALABAMA: Monte Sano, Baker, May 23, 1897. 
West Virginia: Upshur County, Pollock, May 19, 1897. 
Onto: Lancaster, Bigelow; Niles, Ingraham, May, 1891; Lorain County, Ricksecker, 
in 1894, 
MicuiGcan: Alma, Davis, August 28, 1891. 
[Luinois: Near Peoria, Brendel, in 1873; near Naperville, Umbach, June 2, 1898. 
Missourr: Jackson County, Bush 561, 867, May—June, 1896, 
Towa: Fayette County, Fink 76, May 29, 1894. 
Mrinnesora: Near Fort Snelling, Wearns 401, in 1890 and 1891. 
Nesraska: Near Ponca, Clements 2564, June 15, 1893. 
