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base with old leaf sheaths; leaves small, ternate-pinnate or bipinnate, 
with very short (2 to 6 mm.) linear acute-tipped segments; umbel 
unequally few-rayed, with involucels of 1 or 2 small bractlets or none; 
rays 2.5 em. long or less; pedicels 2 to 4mm. long; flowers yellow; 
calyx teeth small or obsolete; fruit narrowly oblong, 8 to 12 mm. long, 
with wings not half as broad as body; oil tubes solitary in the intervals, 
Type locality, ** Yosemite Valley, California;” collected by Jf A. 
Curran, June, 1883; type in Herb. Coulter. 
Only known from the type locality. 
Specimens examined: 
CaLIroRNIA: Type specimens as cited under type locality; same station, Torrey 
165, in 1865 (in Herb. Gray). 
This species was described without name in Bot. Calif. 1: 263. 18 
ae 
76, as a plant 
closely allied to Podosciadium. 
38. Lomatium sandbergii (. & R. 
Peucedanuin sandbergii C. & R. Bot. Graz. 18: 79. 1888, 
Caulescent, branching at base, 2.5 em. to 3 dm. high, from an elon- 
gated comparatively slender root, rough puberulent; petioles wholly 
inflated, with a very conspicuous white scarious margin; leaves ter- 
nately or pinnately dissected, the ultimate segments very short linear; 
umbel very unequally 6 to 15-rayved, with involucels of distinct linear- 
lanceolate bractlets; rays 2.5 to L0cm. long; pedicels 2 to 4 mm. long; 
flowers bright vellow; fruit ovate, puberulent, + to 5mm. long, 3 mm. 
broad, with very narrow wings, and filiform dorsal and intermediate 
ribs; oil tubes 4 or 5 in the intervals, 6 on the commissural side; seed 
face plane. 
Type locality, ‘bare mountain tops [altitude 1,500 meters] along 
snowdrifts, Kootenal County, northern Idaho;” collected by Sand- 
berg, no. +7, July, L887; type in Herb, Coulter, duplicate in U. 8. 
Nat. Herb. 
Alpine in northern Idaho, adjacent Montana, and Alberta. 
Specimens examined: 
IpaHo: Type specimens as cited under type locality; Coeur d’ Alene Mountains, 
altitude 1,900 meters, Letberg 235, 401, July 11-28, 1895. 
Montana: Near Columbia Falls, altitude 2,100 meters, Wiliams 969, July 12, 
1894. 
ALBERTA: Sheep Mountain, Waterton Lake, Macoun 10686, July 28-31, 1895. 
39. Lomatium microcarpum (Howell) C. & R. 
Peucedanum inicrocurpum Howell in G. & R. Rev. N. Am, Umbell. 65. 1888. 
Closely resembling “4. sandberg?/, but differing in its stouter habit; 
petioles without conspicuous margins; somewhat equally-rayed umbels; 
deeper yellow flowers; glabrous fruit, which is oblong and 5 mm. long, 
and much earlier blooming. 
Type locality, ‘*on cliffs, Roseburg, Umpqua Valley, Oregon;” col- 
lected by Howell, no. 709, April 20, 1887; type in Herb. Coulter, 
duplicate in U.S. Nat. Herb. 
