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2. Thaspium barbinode (Michx.) Nutt. Gen. Pl. 1: 196. 1518. 
Ligusticum (?) barbinode Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 167. 1803. 
Smyrnium barbinode Muhl, Cat. 31. 1813. 
Loosely branched, pubescent on the joints, sometimes puberulent in 
the umbels; leaves 1 to 3-ternate; leaflets ovate to lanceolate, acute, 
with cuneate base, coarsely toothed or cut serrate, often ternately cleft 
or parted; flowers light yellow; fruit broadly oblong, glabrous or 
minutely roughened, about 6 mm. long and 4 mm. broad, with mostly 
7 ribs prominently winged, the other three not at all winged or but 
slightly so. 
Type locality, ‘tin Carolina superiore.” 
From New York to North Carolina and Alabama, west to Minnesota 
and Arkansas. 
Specimens examined: 
New York: Waverly, Coville, June 4, 1887. 
PENNSYLVANIA: Near Lancaster, Sma//, May 14, 1891. 
Maryann: Near Baltimore, Foreman, in 1873. 
District or Cotumpra: Vasey, in 1873; Ward, in 1878; Sudiworth, in 1889; Zoolog- 
ical Park, Pollard 380, June 15, 1896. 
Vireinra: Salt Pond Mountain, Canby, August, 1890; Arlington, Blanchard, June 
28,1891; Mount Rogers, Augusta County, l. 4. & F. Gertrude Heller 1182, 
August 9, 1893. 
Norti Caronina: Mountains, G. R. Vasey, in 1878; Swain County, Beardslee 28, 
August 10, 1891; Roan Mountain, Merriam, August 8, 1892; Biltmore, Bilt. 
Herb. 1036, May-August, 1896; Polk County, Townsend, June 17, 1897. 
AuABAMA: Huntsville, Madison County, Pollard & Maxon 365, August 1, 1900. 
Wesr Virarta: Carroll County, Small, June 12, 1892; Pocahontas County and 
Taylor County, Pollock, June, 1896 and 1897. 
TENNESSEE: Knox County, Kearney, May 9, 1891; Cocke County, Kearney 703, 
September 8, 1897; near Knoxville, Ruth 427, July, 1898. 
Kentucky: Elk Lick Fallsand Clay’s Ferry, Kentucky River, Garman, August, 1892, 
ILuinois: Southern Illinois, French; near Oquawka, Patterson. 
Missournt: Wright County, Bush, in 1884; Stone County, Blankinship, in 1887; 
Eagle Rock, Bush 205, June 6, 1897. 
ARKANSAS: Decatur, Plank. 
The foliage is excessively variable, In the ordinary forms the leaves are strictly 
ternate throughout and coarsely toothed. The variations are in the direction of 
leaves being cut almost into a fringe of linear or oblong lobes, and their secondary 
divisions becoming distinetly pinnate. The following varieties are but extreme forms, 
connected with the specific type by numerous intergrades. 
Thaspium barbinode angustifolium C. & R. Bot. Gaz. 12: 137. 1887. 
Leaflets smaller, narrower, and more sharply cut; fruit more or less 
puberulent. 
Type locality, near Crawfordsville, Ind.; collected by J. 1. Lose, 
June, IS8T; type in Herb. Coulter. 
Pennsylvania to Illinois. 
Specimens examined: 
INDIANA: Type specimens as cited under type locality; same station, Rose, June 
22, 1892. 
Inurnois: Homer, Champaign County, Uline, June, 1891. 
