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Along streams, from the mountains of northeastern California and 
adjacent Nevada to eastern Oregon and Idaho. 
Specimens examined: 
Catirornta: Plumas County, Mrs. R. M. Austin; Sierra County, Lemmon, June, 
1889; Hermit Valley, Alpine County, altitude 2,700 meters, Hansen 324, 
August 23, 1893; Colby, Butte County, Mrs. C. C. Bruce, July, 1896; near 
Lassen Buttes, Plumas County, Brown 608, August 1-15, 1897. 
OrrGon: Subalpine bogs and wet meadows, Cusick 1392, September, 1886; Crook 
County, altitude 1,270 meters, Leiberg 464, July 18, 1894; near Shirk, Har- 
ney County, altitude 1,500 meters, Leiberg 2605, July 19, 1896; Alvord Val- 
ley, base of Steins Mountains, Cusick 2034a, July 15, 1898. 
Ipano: Near Ketchum, Henderson 3405, July 23, 1895. 
The Oregon and Idaho specimens are of the narrower-leaved type; and Letberg 
2605 has foliage slightly roughened. 
2. Sphenosciadium eryngiifolium (Greene) C. & R. 
Selinum eryngiifolium Greene, Pittonia 2: 102. 1890. 
Resembling 8. capitellatum, but smaller; leaves paler and somewhat 
scabrous, bipinnate or the primary divisions appearing ternate, more 
dissected; segments narrower and more confluent, fewer toothed or 
lobed and with pungent tips, and more elongated cuneate base; fruit 
about 7 mm. long, with more prominent wings. 
Type locality, ‘‘near the Yosemite Valley, California;’ 
Elmer Drew, June, 1889, 
Dry soil, mountains of southern California. 
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Specimens examined: 
CALIFORNIA: San Jacinto Mountains, Parish 986, August, 1881; headwaters of 
Keweah River, Tulare County, altitude 2,750 meters, Coville & Funston 1475, 
August 4, 1891; Yosemite Valley, Canby, August 15, 1895; San Jacinto 
Mountains, altitude 2,700 meters, HW. M. Hall 720, July 22, 1897. 
Two additional forms can not be referred to either of the above species, but our 
material is too meager to justify definite characterization. They are as follows: 
A form from the southern Sierras of California, collected by Kothrock (no. 386), 
September, 1875, at an altitude of 2,940 meters, has the general characters of S. 
eryngiifolium, but the leaflets are elongated linear and mostly entire. 
A form from Fresno County, Cal., collected by Mrs. Rawson Peckinpah, October, 
1890, has large leaves, with large and crowded lanceolate to ovate, irregularly serrate 
or toothed, more or less confluent segments; rays more slender and elongated, bear- 
ing smaller heads. The plant has the pallid look and somewhat scabrous foliage of 
S. eryngiifolium, but otherwise seems quite distinct. Our specimen is in young 
flowering condition. 
The following species, recently described as Selinwm validum by Mr. J. W. Cong- 
don, in Erythea 7:185. 1900, certainly belongs in the genus Sphenosciadium, but whether 
it is specifically distinct or not weare not prepared to state. Mr. Congdon promised us 
material, but was not able to furnish it in time for this paper. His description is here 
published in full. We suspect that the plant is only an altitudinal variation. 
“Plant stout, tall, unusually strong pubescent in all its parts. Stems 3 to 6 feet 
high, leafy. Leaves biternately or bipinnately divided, usually broadly ovate in out- 
line, sometimes nearly a foot in diameter; the ultimate leaflets usually ovate, serrate, 
