WOOTON AND STANDLEY—FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. 479 
2. Spermolepis echinatus (Nutt.) Heller, Bot. Expl. Texas 3. 1895. 
Leptocaulis echinatus Nutt.; DC. Prodr. 4: 107. 1830. 
Type Locatiry: Red River, Arkansas. 
Rance: Alabama and southern California to Mexico, 
New Mexico: Carrizalillo Mountains; Florida Mountains; Tres Hermanas; Mesilla 
Valley; Organ Mountains. Mesas and low hills, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
6. CICUTA L. WATER HEMLOCK. 
Large coarse glabrous perennial from a thickened root, with twice pinnately com- 
pound leaves having large, ovate to lanceolate, serrate leaflets, and with large umbels 
of white flowers; calyx teeth prominent; fruit oblong to orbicular, glabrous; carpels 
with strongly flattened corky ribs, the lateral ones largest; oil tubes large. 
1. Cicuta occidentalis Greene, Pittonia 2: 7. 1889. 
Type Locatity: Trinidad, Colorado. 
RanGE: Idaho and South Dakota to Nevada and New Mexico. 
New Mexico: San Juan Valley; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Black Range; 
White and Sacramento mountains. In swamps and along streams and ditches, in 
the Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 
7. CARUM L. 
Smooth erect slender herb with tuberous or fusiform roots, pinnate leaves with 
few linear leaflets, involucels of several narrow bracts, and white flowers; calyx teeth 
prominent; fruit orbicular to oblong, glabrous; carpels with filiform inconspicuous 
ribs; oil tubes 2 to 6 on the commissural side, solitary in the intervals. 
1. Carum gairdneri (Hook. & Arn.) A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 344. 1867. 
Atenia gairdnert Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. 349. 1840. 
Type tocauiry: Near San Francisco or Monterey, California. 
Rance: British Columbia and California to South Dakota and New Mexico. 
New Mexico: West Fork of the Gila (Metcalfe 497). 
8. ALETES Coult. & Rose. 
Acaulescent glabrous perennial with pinnate leaves, broad, sharply toothed, rather 
distant leaflets, and yellow flowers; calyx teeth prominent; fruit ‘oblong, glabrous, 
the ribs prominent, equal; oil tubes large, solitary. 
1. Aletes acaulis (Torr.) Coult. & Rose, Rev. Umbell. 126. 1888. 
Deweya? acaulis Torr. U. 8. Rep. Expl. Miss. Pacif. 4': 94. 1856. 
Oreosciadium acaule A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 343. 1867. 
Type Locauiry: Crevices of rocks near Santa Antonita, New Mexico. Type col- 
lected by Bigelow in 1853. 
Rance: Mountains of New Mexico and Colorado. 
New Mexico: Socorro; Sandia Mountains. ‘Transition Zone. 
9. BERULA Hoffm. 
Smooth aquatic perennial, 20 to 40 cm. high or more, with once pinnate leaves, 
variously cut leaflets, conspicuous involucres, and medium-sized umbels of white 
flowers; calyx teeth minute; fruit rotund, emarginate at the base; carpels nearly globose, 
with slender inconspicuous ribs and thick corky pericarp; oil tubes numerous, con- 
tiguous, closely surrounding the seed cavity; seeds terete. 
1. Berula erecta (Huds.) Coville, Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb. 4: 115. 1893. 
Sium erectum Huds. Fl. Angl. 103. 1762. 
Sium angustifolium L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 1672. 1763. 
