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Short caulescent, slender, with a solitary peduncle 1 to 8 dm. high; 
leaves clustered near the base, usually large (1 to 1.5 dm. long), 
bipinnate (but the upper leaflets confluent); leaflets broad, obtuse 
(usually ending truncately or emarginately between two divaricate 
teeth), irregularly incised and with broad strongly cuspidate teeth; 
umbel 8 to 10-rayed, with involucels of linear or lanceolate acuminate 
bractlets; rays 1 to 3.5 em. long; pedicels 6 to 8 mm. long; flowers 
yellow; fruit broadly elliptical to orbicular, 6 to 7 mm. long, scarcely 
emarginate, with wings broader than body, and rather prominent 
dorsal and intermediate ribs; oil tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 to 4 
on the commissural side. 
Type locality, in California, but station not given; collected by 
Douglas. 
San Luis Obispo County, Cal. 
Specimens examined: 
CaLirorNnia: San Luis Obispo, Jones 3226, May 5, 1882; same station, Mrs. R. WW. 
Summers, in 1889; San Simeon, Brandegee, June, 1889. 
3. Euryptera hassei C. & R. 
Peucedanum hassei C. & R. Bot. Gaz. 14: 276. 1889, 
Tall caulescent, stout, 6 dm. or more high, glabrous and somewhat 
glaucous, from a long slender woody root; leaves biternate, on very 
long petioles (sometimes 2.5 cm. including petiole); leaflets broadly 
ovate, with cuneate base, irregularly lobed, coarsely mucronate- 
toothed, 2.5 to 10 em. long, becoming 6 cm. broad; umbel lone- 
peduncled, equally 8 to tS-rayed, with involucels of bractlets which 
vary from rather short linear-setaceous to oblanceolate, foliaceous, 
entire or toothed and much exceeding the pedicels; rays 5 to 10 em. 
long; pedicels 12 to 16mm, long; flowers vellow; fruitas in /2 /ie/da, 
Type locality, canyon of Sierra Madre, ‘* Los Angeles County, 
California; collected by //asse, March 27 and April 7, 1888; type in 
U.S. Nat. Herb., duplicate in Herb. Coulter, 
Only known from type locality, excepting the specimen from Vacz 
Mountains, reported below by Jepson, 
Specimens examined: 
CALIFORNIA: Type specimens as cited under type locality; summit of the Vace 
Mountains, Jepson, June 20, 1892 (fide Jepson). 
4, Euryptera pallida ©. & R., sp. nov. 
Acaulescent, glabrous throughout and very pale; peduncles about 
2 dm. high, exceeding the leaves; leaves pinnate (or first division 
appearing ternate), lowest pair of pinnae often pinnate; leaflets broad, 
with rhomboidal or irregularly angled outline, the very broad teeth 
mucronate tipped; fruiting umbel about 6-rayed, with involucels of 
few linear-lanceolate bractlets; rays 2.5 to4em. long; pedicels 8 to 10 
mun. long: fruit oblong, LO mm. long, 6 to 7 mm. broad, emarginate 
at base, with wine's as broad as body; oil tubes solitary. 
