64 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Nevada City, Nevada County, Cal.; collected by Henry Pratten in 
1851. 
California, from Sierra County southward, 
Specimens examined: 
CaLiFoRNIA: San Bernardino Mountains, Canby 228, May, 1880; San Diego 
County, Oreull, May, 1889; Kern County, Greene, June 24, 1889; Kern 
County, Corlle & Funston 1171, July 6, 1891; near San Isabel, Menshav 
April 29, 1893; San Bernardino Mountains, Parish 3479, 4165, in 1894 anc 
1896; same station, Leberg 8321, April 22, 1898. 
+. Washingtonia nuda (Torr.) Heller, Cat. N. Am. PL 5. 1898, 
Osmorhiza nuda Torr, Pacif. R. Rep. 4': 93. 1856. 
Uraspermum nudum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl1:270. 1891, 
Myrrhis nuda Greene, Man. Bot. Bay Reg. 157. 1894. 
Rather slender, about 6 dm. high, lower part of stem and foliage 
strigose pubescent, upper part of stem glabrous; basal leaves on long 
petioles; leaflets broadly ovate, 2 to 5 em. long, obtuse or acutish, 
often deeply 8-lobed, coarsely dentate-serrate; umbels on elongated 
peduncles, with 8 or + spreading rays 7.5 to 10 cm. long, and 2 to 6 
pedicels much longer than the fruit, sometimes 8 em. long; fruit (im- 
mature) very hispid, especially at base, apparently obtuse; stylopodium 
0.5 mm. long, as broad as high, longer than the style. 
Type locality, ** shady woods, Napa Valley,” Cal.; colleeted by Bige- 
low, April 27, 1858 or 1854; type in Herb, Columbia Univ. 
Central California, in the coast region. 
Specimens examined: 
CALIFORNIA: Santa Lucia Mountains, Monterey County, A. A. Plaskett, March, 
1898. , 
5. Washingtonia obtusa C. & R., sp. nov. 
Resembles WW. vvda, but more slender and lower, almost glabrous; 
leaflets ovate to lanceolate, acute or acuminate, more sharply toothed; 
umbel with very widespreading rays (lateral ones even deflexed); the 
2 to 4 pedicels 12 to 25 mm. long, longer than the fruit, which is about 
16 mm. long, obtuse (often slightly pointed just at the tip), and less 
pubescent; stylopodium 0.5 mm. long or less. 
Type locality, Ishawood Creek, northwestern Wyoming; collected 
by Pose, no. 476, August 8, 1893: type in U.S. Nat. Herb. 
A species of the Rocky Mountain region and extending into the 
northeastern border of California. 
Specimens examined : 
British CoLtumBIA: Kicking Horse Lake, Rocky Mountains, Macoun, July 23, 1885, 
_ Wyomina: Yellowstone Park, Tireedy, July, 1885; Rose 476, as cited under type 
locality; Centennial Valley, Nelson i722, in 1895. 
CoLorapo: Estes Park, Ball, July, 1884; continental divide west of North Park, 
altitude 2,210 meters, Crandall 187, July 20, 1894; Telluride, altitude 3,000 
meters, Tiveedy 206, August 25, 1894; Empire, Bethel, July, 1895; near Cam- 
eron Pass, 2,850 meters, Baker 8, July 17, 1896; West Mancos Cafion, alti- 
tude 2,700 to 3,000 meters, Buker, Larle & Tracy 188, June 28, 1898; La Plata 
