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240 LEAFLEtS. 



almost meeting over the oil-tubes, all oblong as seen iu cross 

 section, the laterals more than twice the size of the others. 



The habitat of this, as to the type specimens, is the eastern 

 base of the middle Californian Sierra in California and adjacent 

 western Nevada. The specimens are those collected by Mr. 

 Sonne, at Truckee in 1892, and by myself at the same place 

 in 1895. Mr. Heller has also distributed the same (n. 7174) 

 from Truckee, but neglecting the underground parts, and 

 calling his specimens C. vagans^ wrongly, through following 

 the guess of Coulter and Rose. Neither the underground 

 parts nor the carpels in C Sonnet are at all as in C. vagans. 



CicuTA FiMBRiATA. Radical leaf large, bipinnate, of some- 

 what triangular circumscription, being a foot long, exclusive 

 of the long petiole, and 9 inches wide near the base, the leaf- 

 lets large and few, about 39 to 41, ovate -lanceolate, acute at 

 both ends, about 2}^ inches long by 1 to 1% inches wide 

 below the middle, everywhere, except at the entire and taper- 

 ing base, closely, deeply and thereby fimbriately serrate, the 

 serratures slender, acute, but somewhat unequal ; both faces 

 of the leaflet of a vivid green, the lower very conspicuously 

 veiny with elevated and sharp feather veins. 



Saline or brackish marshes of Washington near the sea, 

 where it was collected in 1854 or 1855 by Dr. J. G. Cooper, 

 in whose catalogue (Pac. R. R. Rep., vol. xii, Book ii, p- 63) 

 it is thus mentioned: Conium maculatum, Linn. ''Large 

 form of the northwest coast." (T.) Abundant everywhere 

 in wet grounds, the large variety mostly near the sea, 8 feet 

 high. 



The words in quotation marks are those of Dr. Torrey. 

 The determination of the specimen was made by him for 

 Dr. Cooper, as the latter affirms. The name Conium macu- 

 latum was surely a slip of Dr. Torrey 's pen for Cicuta 

 viaculata ; for we can not possibly suppose him to have failed 

 to distinguish between the leaves of Conium and Cicuta. 

 The fact that in either case the specific name was maculata 

 would have its tendency to induce such a lapse in writing. 



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