178 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
6. Aulospermum jonesii C. & R. 
Cymopterus jonesii C. & R. Rev. N. Am. Umbell. 80. 1888, 
Nearly acaulescent, glaucous and glabrous; leaves ternate, then pin. 
nate to bipinnate, with ultimate segments rather broad and mucronate- 
toothed; peduncles stout and longer than the leaves, 5 to 13 em. high; 
umbels 5 to 12-rayed, with no involucre, and involucels of small lanceo- 
late bractlets somewhat united at base; rays about 2.5 em. tong; pedicels 
4 to 6 mm. long; flowers purple; fruit globose, 8 mm. in diameter, 
each carpel with 5 broad thin wings very thick at insertion; oil tubes 
solitary in the very narrow intervals, 2 on the commissural side; seed 
face with deep and narrow sulcus, which broadens into a central cavity. 
Type locality, ** Frisco,” Beaver County, Utah, altitude 2,400 meters; 
collected by -/ones, no. 1808, June 22, 1880; type in U. 8S. Nat. Herb. 
Mountains of Utah. 
Specimens examined : 
Uran: Type specimens as cited under type locality; Cove Creek, Jones, June 16, 
1898. 
7, Aulospermum cinerarium (Garay) C. & R. 
Cymopterus cinerarius Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 6: 535. 1865. 
Acaulescent, with subterranean creeping rootstock; peduncles (5 to 
7.5 em. high) and petioles glabrous; leaves somewhat cordate in out- 
line, bipinnate with toothed segments, glaucous-cinereous with a fine 
rough pubescence; rays few, short or almost none; flowers purple; 
involucels of numerous united somewhat membranous long-acuminate 
segments; fruit 6 mm. long, the 5 wings of each carpel rather narrow 
and thick at insertion; oil tubes 3 in the intervals, several on the com- 
missural side; seed face with narrow and deep concavity. 
Type locality, ‘tin volcanic ashes, on dry hills in the high Sierra 
Nevada, at Sonora Pass, and above Lake Mono,” California, altitude 
2,700 to 3,000 meters; collected by Brewer, type in Herb. Gray, frag- 
ments in U. S. Nat. Herb. 
Only known from the type locality and from the original collection. 
Specimens examined : 
JALIFORNIA: Type specimens as cited under type locality. 
8. Aulospermum purpureum (Watson) C. & R. 
Cyumopterus purpureus Watson, Am. Nat. 7: 300. 1873. 
Whole plant purplish, nearly acaulescent, glabrous; leaves broadly 
triangular in outline, twice to thrice pinnate, the segments coarsely 
mucronate-dentate; peduncles stout, exceeding the leaves; umbel 
unequally 8 to 12-rayed, with more or less elongated rays and pedicels, 
mostly no involucre, and involucels of lanceolate bractlets united near 
the base and nearly equaling the yellowish-purple flowers; fruit 8 to 
10 mm. long, each carpel with 3 to 5 broad wings scarcely thickened 
at insertion; oil tubes 4 or 5 in the intervals, 8 on the commissural 
side; seed somewhat flattened, with broadly concave face. 
