344 PROCEEDINQS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Carum Gairdneri {Atcenia Gairdnen, Hook. <Ss Arn., & Edosmia 

 montana, prcealta, & Oregaiia, 'Nutt.) : var. latifolia : caule sesqui- 

 pedali ; segmentis foliorum 3-9 lanceolatis (ad semipollicem usque 

 latis). — Sierras, Ebbett's Pass, Yoseraite, and near Carson City, 

 Brewer, Bolander, Dr. C. L. Anderson. 



Carum Kellogii : glaber ; radicibus fasciculatis stepius fusiformi- 

 seu tuberoso-incrassatis ; caule 2 - 4-pedali ; foliis 2 - 3-ternatis vel 

 1 - 2-teriiatis et pinnato-5 - 7-foliolatis, superioribus decrescentibus 

 7 - 1-foliolatis, petiolo communi spathaceo sublineari, foliolis linearibus 

 utrinque attenuatis integerrimis summisve fere filiforraibus ; involucro 

 aut abortivo 1 — 3-bracteato, aut perfecto e bracteis 5-9 lineari- seu 

 lanceolato-subulatis iis involucellorum similibus ; pedicellis brevibus ; 

 fructu leviter obovato stylopodiis magnis conicis caljcisque dentibus 

 subulatis conspicuis coronato, jugis inconspicuis impressis. — California 

 near the coast: San Jose, Brewer (832) ; Oakland, Bolander ; Bolinas, 

 Dr. Kellogg. [Also collected, I find, by Fremont, in 184G, only in 

 flower, but with thick farinaceous roots, as in C. Gairdneri.^ Accord- 

 ing to Dr. Kellogg the plant is known as " Wild Anise," and the fruit 

 yields a pleasant anisate odor. It is " very common," but being 

 " about the latest flowering plant on the Oakland hills," according to 

 Bolander, has escaped observation. The fully mature fruit, which I 

 have only from Bolander, is twice or thrice as large as in C. Gaird- 

 nei'i (2-2^ lines long), tumid, the very large single vittse filling the 

 intervals, and so turgid that the jugae are sunken, and the albumen 

 under each sulcate. Calyx-teeth often half a line or more in length. 

 Involucre and involucels when well developed conspicuous, rather 

 membranaceous or scarious, and very much as in C. Bidbocastanum. 

 The plant is, I presume, a congener of the preceding, which has been 

 well reduced to a mere section of Carum by Bentham and Hooker, and 

 is not to be widely separated from C. Bidbocastanum, notwithstanding 

 the different root and the calyx-teeth, which in this species ai'e espe- 

 cially conspicuous. 



CicuTA Californica : foliis inferioribus tantum bipinnatis, superi- 

 oribus sajpe simpliciter pinnatis 5 - 7-foliolatis ; foliolis ovato-lanceo- 

 latis, venis primariis tenuibus in dentes desinentibus ; involucro vix 

 ullo ; fructus jugis contiguis subfequalibus vittas (in valleculis later- 

 alibus nunc subgeminas !) in madido tegentibus ; semine tereti. — 

 Apparently common on the Californian seaboard : Monterey, Hartweg 

 (1754), Brewer (707) ; San Francisco, Dr. Kellogg. The specimens 



