WOOTON AND STANDLEY—FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. ATT 
Oil tubes solitary in the intervals be- 
tween the ribs, 
Stylopodium flat or wanting. 
Flowers white; an annual.... 4. Aprom (p. 478). 
Flowers yellow; perennials. 
Ribs equal, broad, corky.11. OrEoxis (p. 480). 
Ribs filiform............. 8. ALETEs (p. 479). 
Stylopodium conical. 
Leaflets broad, large......... 6. C1cura (p. 479). 
Leaflets (at least the upper) 
linear to filiform. 
Involucres wanting. 
Flowers white....... 22. CORIANDRUM (p. 484). 
Flowers yellow...... 24, FOENICULUM (p. 485). 
Involucres present. 
Fruit smooth (ribs 
filiform); 
leaves with 
few leaflets... 7. Carum (p. 479). 
Fruit tuberculate or 
bristly; leaves 
finely dis- 
sected........ 5. SPERMOLEPIS (p. 478). 
1. SANICULA L. Setr-Heat. 
Smooth perennial with almost naked or sparsely leafy stems and palmately cleft 
leaves with pinnatifid or incised lobes; involucres present; flowers greenish yellow, in 
irregularly compound few-rayed umbels; calyx teeth somewhat foliaceous, persistent; 
fruit subglobose, densely covered with hooked bristles, 
1. Sanicula marilandica L. Sp. Pl. 235. 1753. 
Type Loca.iry: ‘‘Habitat in Marilandia, Virginia.”’ 
Rance: New England and Nebraska to New Mexico and Alabama. 
New Mexico: Gallinas Planting Station (Bartlett); Brazos Canyon (Standley & 
Boliman). Damp woods, in the Transition Zone. 
2. ERYNGIUM L. 
Coarse glabrous perennials 30 cm, high or more, with rigid, coriaceous, sometimes 
spinulose leaves, and small flowers in involucrate heads; sepals prominent, rigid, 
persistent; fruit ovoid, laterally flattened, scaly or tuberculate; ribs obsolete; stylo- 
podium wanting; oil tubes mostly 5; seed face plane, 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Leaves pectinate-dentate or pinnatifid, the lobes spinose- 
tipped, not parallel-veined.................4......2-- 1. E. wrightii. 
Leaves elongate-linear, mostly entire, parallel-veined...... 2. E. sparganophyllum. 
1. Eryngium wrightii A. Gray, Pl. Wright. 1: 78. 1852. 
Tyre Locauity: “‘Bed of the Limpia or Wild Rose Creek,’’ Texas. 
Rance: Western Texas to southern Arizona. 
New Mexico: Animas Valley; near White Water. 
