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2 Leptotaenia Nutt. 
Rather stout herbs with thick fleshy tap roots and finely 
dissected foliage. Flowers yellow or purple <agmpiegeb in rather showy 
compound wnbels. Primary unbels subtended by 1 or more subulate bracts Whelmige 
' , the unbellets by a similar smaller series,usually persist- 
ent, the rays of both unequal. Calyx teeth practically wanting. Fruit oval, 
strongly flattened parallel to the banter. very smooth, the lateral ribs 
narrowly winged with a corky blunt wing, the doraal ones fain Oil tubes 
obscure, several in the intervals, irregular,often Sissoukioacte, or wanting, 
mostly wanting on the commissural face. 
Flowers purple; fruits 8-10 mm. broad o, ie purpurea 
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Uw. 7 Flowers yellow; fruits 6-7 mm. broad le L. multifida 4 
eee multi fide Nutte > time porennial herbs 60-90 em. tall or : 
nee ied ees we; stems glabrous, bearing1 or 2 
ee le Cave Sp chiefly in» basal tuft, 30-60 cm. long including the 
petiole, the blades pinnately 5-6 times dissected into numerous small blunt 
divisions 1-5 mn. long, ay euOMe l mm. broad, mostly glabrous on the 
SA tcl ac Ss ee ne late 
upper surface, che lover especially on the margins and midrib scabrous with 
minute conical hairs; umbe ae. subtended by a few persistent or deciduous 
subulate braces 8-12 mn. long, She rays 25-5 cm. long in flower, unequal, é 
increasing somewhat in fruit; eadneel GS-12 ma. long at maturity, rather 
slende:, subtended by a series cf subulate bractlets 3-6 ma. long, which are j 
usually persistent; Ciewers yellow; fruits oval, very smooth, 10-12 mma. long 
at oe 6-7 mue broad, the wing blunt, about 1 ma. broad, the ribs faint; 
oil tubes practically wantin 
Common on open hillsides at low elevations. 
