10. Le Cous (5. ‘ints e) C. @ Re  Couss vcems arising from thickened elongate 
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obose, 1-4 cm, loner, 
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tubers which often branch, parsnit-or reacish=shaved, not 
5-2 on, thick, blacks. leseves several in a basal tuft, 10-25 cm. long, ternate, 
then usually twice pinnate, the ultimate segments .v-c0 mn, long, 1e5=2,5 mn, 
bprosd, tapering both ways from the middle but blunt, glabrous; scapes ascende 
ing, clebrous, 10-25 cm, t all, the umbels naked, their primary rays very 
unequal, e0-G cm. long, the umbellets subtended iv a series of lanceoloete 
ereen or ourplish brects 5-5 mie long which are somewhat united at the base, 
tent; mature vediecls 2-5 mm, longs; flovers ycllows; fruits broadly ovaly 
9-10 mie lone, 4-5 mm, wide, ~l:brous, the wings 1-1.2 m, broad, the dorsal 
ribs acutely elevated; oil tubes solitary in the intcrvels, commonly 6 on 
the commissural face, broad and nearly confluent. 
Sloses of the Clear:ymter and tributary canyons in thin soil, The roots 
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trere a source of food vor the Indisnse. Le circumdatum (Ve.5se) Ge Res 
se p4at4 yy alhad ow Am «TF aah ts ae a ee ee oy re A a 
usually distinguished om L. Cous by its clebrous rather than puberulent 
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or "cranuler-rouchened" carvels was believed doubtfully distinet by Piper 
(1906) and later not retained (1914). It is at least not recognizable in 
our rervione 
