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ones deeply cleft ; the three stem leaves are slender-petioled, even 
the involucral leaves are short-petioled. The immature fruit when 
crushed exhales an odor much like that of the herbage of the 
carrot, and very different from that of true Jarylandica. The 
styles are shorter than normally, and not recurved, and with the 
stylopodium are perfectly developed in all the infertile flowers, 
which are further noteworthy from their rigidly spreading sepals. 
I have observed no other instance of styliferous sterile flowers — 
in any of our eastern Sawicudae, though an examination of speci- 
mens of Sanicula Europaca show that they occur normally in that 
species. 
So far as an inference may be drawn from this single specimen, 
we may suspect the existence in the Southern Alleghenies of still 
another form of Sanicula meriting definite recognition. 
The plate of S. Marylandica in “The Flora of the State of 
New York” well illustrates the confusion that has prevailed with 
regard to this species. The large leaf in outline, together with 
the single bristle, the mature carpel and the fruit section, are of 
S. Marylandica; the figure of the upper part of a fruiting plant, 
and the detached umbellet, are good representations of S. gregaria 
as here distinguished. 
SANICULA GREGARIA N. sp. 
~ Stems rather weak, often clustered, from one to three feet high, 
commonly two to two-and-a-half feet, naked to the first branch or 
with a single petioled leaf, above dividing into a freely branched 
three or four times compound general umbel which takes up US- 
ually 14 to % the length of the plant. Basal leaves usually 
more numerous than in Marylandica, sometimes nearly as large 
and as long-petioled, only one of them truly cauline, the others 
rising from the rootstock near the base of the stem. Leaves thin, 
bright green, digitately five-divided, the divisions all petiolulate, or 
the lateral pairs slightly united at base; leaflets varying from 
cuneate-obovate, through rhombic, to elliptic and lanceolate, 
sharply doubly-serrate with bristle-tipped teeth, often regularly 
serrate-lobed along the margins, sharply incised-lobed above, 
acutely-pointed ; involucral leaves scarcely reduced, trifoliate, the 
petiolulate leaflets commonly lanceolate, often somewhat curved or 
sub-falcate ; involucres of the second, and even of the third, series 
conspicuously foliaceous, the former three-divided, and sometimes 
spreading four or five inches, the latter merely lobed. Branches 
of general umbel, with their divisions, commonly in sub-equal 
