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48. GLEHNIA I. Schmidt in Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3: 61. 
LS67, 
Phellopterus Benth. in Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. 1: 905, 1867. Not Nuttall, 
Calyx teeth small. Fruit globose, glabrous. Carpel somewhat flat- 
tened dorsally, with 5 equal broad and corky thickened wings; lateral 
wings distinct from those of the other carpel; pericarp with no 
strengthening cells. Stylopodium depressed. Oil tubes 2 or 3 in 
the intervals (but appearing evenly distributed, owing to the narrow- 
ness of the intervals), 4 to 6 on the commissural side. Seed face 
slightly concave. 
Low tomentose-villous herbs on the sands of the seashore, with 
once or twice ternate or ternate-pinnate coriaceous leaves, ovate to 
Fia. 49.—Glehnia littoralis: a,b, x 4. 
roundish more or less confluent leaflets densely white tomentose 
beneath, involucre and involucels of subulate bracts, and g@lomerate 
whitish flowers. 
A monotypic genus (based on Cymopterus (7) (/ttoral/s Gray) belong- 
ing to the American and Asiatic coasts of the northern Pacific. 
1. Glehnia littoralis (Grray) Schmidt, I. c. Fig. 49. 
Cymopterus (?) littoralis Gray, Pacif. R. Rep. Bot. 12?: 62. 1860, 
Phellopterus littoralis Schmidt, Mem. Acad. Petrop. VII. 12: 138. 1868, 
Subcaulescent; petioles elongated; leaflets callous-serrate to dentate, 
with impressed veinlets above, 2.5 to 5 cm. long; umbels shorter than 
the leaves, 10 to 12-rayed; rays 12 to 24 mm. long; umbellets capitate; 
fruit 8 to 10 mm. in diameter, the wings 8 mm. broad. 
Type locality, **on the sands of the seashore at Shoalwater Bay,” 
Puget Sound: collected by Cooper; type in Herb. Gray. 
Sandy seashores from Oregon to Alaska; also in Korea and Japan. 
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