104 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
2. Carum gairdneri (Hook. & Arn.) Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 344. 
1867. 
Alenia gairdnert Hook. & Arn, Bot. Beechey, 349. 1840. 
Edosmia gairdneri Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1: 612. 1840. 
Stem 3 to 12 dm. high, from fascicled tuberous or fusiform roots; 
leaves few, usually simply pinnate, with 3 to 7 linear (sometimes 
almost filiform) leaflets 5 to 15 em. long (the lower rarely pinnate); 
upper leaves usually simple; umbels 6 to 15-rayed, with involucre of 
several bracts or none, and involucels of linear acuminate bractlets; 
rays 2.5 to 4em. long; fruit broadly ovate or nearly orbicular, small, 
1 to 2 mm. long, with small ovate calyx teeth, low conical stylopodium, 
and long slender styles; seed terete. 
Type locality, near San Francisco or Monterey, Cal.; collected by 
Douglas. 
From British Columbia to southern California, eastward to Black 
Hills of South Dakota, Colorado, and Arizona. 
Specimens examined: 
Nortawest Territory: Medicine Hat, Macoun, August 19, 1880. 
ALBERTA: St. Marys River, Macoun 10657, July 24, 1895. 
VANCOUVER IsLAND: Somas River, Macoun, August, 1887 and 1889. 
Wasuinaton: Klickitat County, Suksdorf, August 22, 1881; G. R. Vasey 307, 
August, 1889; Mason County, Piper 1051, July 23, 1890; Yakima County, 
Henderson 2521, June 17, 1892; Sandberg & Leiberg 414, in 1893; Almota, 
Piper 1935, July 24, 1894; Wenatchee, Whited, July-August, 1896; Whitman 
County, Elmer 71, July 30, 1896; Blue Mountains, Wallawalla County, 
Horner 5, August 19, 1896. 
OrgeGon: Near Oregon City, Kellogg & Harford 307, July 26, 1869; Josephine 
County, Lemmon 80, October 23, 1889; Harney County, altitude 1,400 meters, 
Coville & Leiberg 17, July 24, 1896; Sheldon 8202, in 1897; banks of streams, 
Cusick 2067, August-September, 1898. 
CattrorniA: Fort Tejon, Xantus de Vesey 38, in 1857-58; Sonoma Valley, Torrey 
166, in 1865; Soda Springs, Nevada County, altitude 2,100 meters, Jones 
2527, July 26, 1881; Howell Mountain, Brandegee, September, 1888; Los 
Angeles County, Hasse, August 26, 1890, and July, 1891; Amador County, 
Hansen 1842, July 13, 1896; southeastern California, altitude 1,200 to 1,500 
meters, Purpus 5632, April-September, 1897. 
Arizona: Palmer, in 1869; Bill Williams Mountain, altitude 2,100 meters, Mac- 
Dougal 322, July 22, 1898. 
Uran: City Creek Canyon, altitude 2,190 meters, Jones 1916, August 20, 1880. 
Ipano: Lake Pend Oreille, Kootenai County, Sandberg 823, August 4, 1892; Mos- 
cow, Henderson, August-September, 1894; Lost River Mountains, altitude 
2,490 meters, Henderson 4064, August 14, 1895; Nez Perces County, altitude 
1,050 meters, A. A. & EL Gertrude Heller 3422, July 14, 1896. 
Montana: Sandcoulee, Williams 198, August 13, 1891; near Red Lodge, Rose, 
July 24, 1893; Forks of the Madison, Rydberg 4632, July 26, 1897. 
Wyomine: Jacksons Lake and head of Clarks Fork, Forwood, August, 1881; 
Yellowstone Park, Knowlton, August 14, 1881; northwestern Wyoming, Rose 
324, September 3, 1893; Green River, Fremont County, Stevenson 42, August 
21, 1894; Yellowstone Park, Rydberg 4633, August 14, 1897; Nez Perces 
Creek, Yellowstone Park, A. & EF. Nelson 6204, July 29, 1899. 
