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42. Lomatium congdoni ©. & R., sp. nov. 
Acaulescent, glabrous; peduncles ascending, 1.5 to 2 dm. long, terete, 
purplish; leaves first quinate, the middle division elongated, then 
twice to thrice pinnate; the ultimate segments short, linear, acute, 
mostly entire, glabrous above, slightly scabrous beneath; sheath nar- 
row and slender, extending the full length of the petiole; umbels with 
6 to 8 fertile rays, and no involucels; rays 2 to 5 em. long; pedicels 
spreading, 6 to Simm. long; fruit nearly elliptical, slightly broader 
above, 5 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, with wings slightly narrower than 
body, and filiform dorsal and intermediate ribs; oil tubes very indis- 
tinct, one or perhaps more in the intervals. 
Type locality, West Water Ditch. Mariposa County, Cal.; collected 
by A.W. Congdon, no, 114, May 12 and 25, 1893; type in U.S. Nat. 
Herb. 
Mariposa County, Cal. 
Specimens examined: 
CALIFORNIA: Mariposa, Mariposa County, Congdon, May 24, 1892; type specimen 
as cited under type locality. 
43. Lomatium plummerae ('. & R. 
Peucedanum plumimerae C. & R. Bot. Gaz. 14: 278. 1889. 
Short caulescent, with a cluster of stout widely spreading peduncles 
(2 to 3 dm. high) rising much above the leaves and from a thick 
tuberous root, glabrous and somewhat glaucous; leaves ternately 
decompound, the numerous crowded ultimate segments very small, 
oblong, more or less confluent; umbel very unequally 6 to 12-raved, 
with involucels of numerous lanceolate acuminate bractlets; rays 1 to 
7.5 cm. long; pedicels + to Simm. long; flowers white; fruit oblong, 
but usually acute at apex, glabrous, 8 to 9mm. long, 4 to 5 mm. broad, 
with wings from half to as broad as body, and indistinct dorsal and 
intermediate ribs; oil tubes 2 or 3 in the intervals, + to 6 on the com- 
missural side, 
Type locality, ‘Sierra Valley, Sierra County.” Cal.; collected by 
Lemmon, no. 82, May, 1889; type in U. S. Nat. Herb. Associated 
with the type in the original description is Lemon 40 from near 
Shasta, Shasta County, une 28. L880. 
Northeastern California. 
Specimens examined: 
CALIFORNIA: Type specimens as cited under type locality. 
44. Lomatium brevifolium C. & R. 
Peucedanun triternatum brevifolium C. & R. Rev. N. Am. Umbell. 70. 1888. 
Rather stout and rough puberulent, resembling LZ. /r/fernatum, but 
with smaller more compact leaves with stout inflated petioles and 
usually shorter broader and often toothed segments; umbels very 
unequally 5 to L5-rayed, with involucels of lanceolate or setaceous 
