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Specimens examined: 
~ Virarnra: Peaks of Otter, Bedford County, altitude 1,050 meters, Curtiss, July 
26, 1871; Peak Mountain, Pulaski County, altitude 660 meters, Small, July 
16, 1892. 
NortH Caro.tna: Statesville, Hyams, August, 1877; mountains, G. R. Vasey, in 
1878; Roan Mountain, altitude 1,200 meters, Chickering, July 1, 1880; Lin- 
ville, Kelsey, September, 1890; summit of Table Rock Mountain, Burke 
County, Small & Heller 66, July 2, 1891; Swain County, altitude 540 meters, 
Beardslee, August 5, 1891; near Columbus, Polk County, Townsend, July 2, 
1897; Biltmore and Highlands, Macon County, Bilt. Herb. 5549, August- 
September, 1897. 
Groraia: Yellow River, Gwinnett County, altitude 225 meters, Small, July 11, 
1893; Lookout Mountain, Ruth 425, July, 1898. 
ALABAMA: Gadsden, Etowah County, Pollard & Maxon, July 29, 1900. 
TENNESSEE: Cocke County, Avarney 702, August 25, 1897. 
Missourt: Shannon County, Bush, June 1, 1890. 
The type locality of Ligusticum actaeifolium Michx. Fl. 1: 166. 1803, a species 
persistently associated with the above, is ‘fon the banks of the St. Lawrence, near 
Tadousac,”? which is in the Province of Quebec at the mouth of the Saguenay. 
Both the description and the type locality forbid association with a species not 
reported north of southern Pennsylvania, and chiefly developed still farther south. 
What JL. actaeifolium represents is not clear, but it is probably the Coelopleurum of 
the North Atlantic region, which is common on the lower St. Lawrence, and was 
found by Pringle in Temiscouata, just across the St. Lawrence from Tadousae, 
2. Ligusticum scothicum L. Sp. Pl. 1: 250. 1753. 
Stem simple, 3 to 6 dm. high, somewhat leafy, with glabrous 
inflorescence; leaves biternate; leaflets ovate to obovate or nearly 
rotund, 2.5 to 5 em. long, coarsely toothed; umbel 8 to 15-rayed, with 
involucre of 1 to 8 linear bracts, and involucels of several linear 
bractlets; rays (fruiting) 2.5 to 7.5 em. long; flowers often pinkish; 
alyx teeth small, persistent; fruit narrowly oblong, 4 to 6 mm. long, 
with prominent somewhat winged ribs; oil tubes small, 2 or 3 in the 
intervals, 6 on the commissural side. 
Type locality, ‘tad litora Maris in Anglia, Suecia.” 
Salt marshes along the east coast from Labrador (and up the St. 
Lawrence) to Connecticut; along the entire Alaskan coast; also coasts 
of northern Asia and Europe. 
Specimens examined: 
Laprapor: Kenaston, in 1891; Capisan Island, Waghorne, August 14, 1894. 
NEWFOUNDLAND: Crevices of cliffs, Placentia, Robinson & Schrenk, August 24, 
1894. 
New Brunswick: Charlo, Restigouche, Fowler, July 80, 1874. 
QurpBec: Rocky shores of the St. Lawrence, Province of Temiscouata, Pringle, 
in 1879. 
Marne: Shore of Bakers Island, Redfield, July 23, 1890. 
Massacuuserts: Marthas Vineyard, Burgess, August, 1889; on Buzzards Bay 
near Juisseti, in herb. Walter Deane. 
ALASKA: Fort St. Michael, Norton Sound, Bannister, in 1865-66; Sitka, Kellogg 
181, in 1867; Shumagin Island, Harrington, in 1871-72; Unalaska, the Alba- 
tross, July, 1888; Port Chester, Fassett, July, 1890; Unalaska, James Macoun, 
