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cm. broad, deeply cordate, shallowly about 13 lobed, the lobes each with 

 3-7 broad teeth, the petiole 3-4 times as long as the blade; intermediate 

 leaves deeply 7-9 cleft, the lobes oblong, irregularly toothed or somewhat 

 lobed, on petioles of about equal length: upper leaves 3-5 parted into 

 oblong-linear entire or more or less toothed lobes: stipules subulate- 

 lanceolate, somewhat scarious, usually purple, about 1 cm. long: inflor- 

 escence branched, the flowers numerous in dense erect spike-like racemes, 

 5-15 cm. long: pedicels 2-4 mm. long; bracts subulate, longer than the 

 pedicels: calyx turbinate or at length campanulate, 8-10 mm. long, the 

 erect lanceolate acute lobes as long as the tube; petals purple, 1.5-2 cm. 

 long, notched and somewhat erose at tip; carpels whitish, glabrous or 

 with a few puberulent hairs at tip, not at all reticulated, 8 mm. long. 



In swales near Roseburg, Oregon, W. C. Cusick Nos. 4147 (type), 

 4205a, 4086, and 4200, all collected in June, 1914. Also collected by 

 Howell, June 26, 1887, at the same place. Other specimens to be referred 

 here are Applegate Nos. 2386 from Antelope Creek, and 2570 from Elk 

 Creek, both in Jackson County, Oregon. 



This species has been confused with S. spicata Kegel, but differs from 

 that in its stouter habit, its long many-flowered racemes and in the 

 entire absence of hirsute pubescence. 



Carum erythrorhizum n. sp. 



Glabrous; stems slender, 60-100 cm. high, loosely branched above: 

 tubers fusiform, fleshy and starchy, 4-6 cm. long, usually many in a 

 cluster, the cortex red; leaves few, 15-30 cm. long including the petiole, 

 pinnately or the lower bipinnately parted into 2-5 distant pairs of leaflets, 

 these like the rachis, slender, terete, almost filiform, 2-5 cm. long: 

 sheaths scarious-margined, those of the lower leaves 2-4 mm. broad; 

 bracts reduced, filiform-linear; umbels small, 2-4 cm. in diameter, each 

 with 6-10 unequal ascending rays, the longest rays 2.5-4 cm. long: in- 

 volucre wanting or consisting of a few linear bracts, 3-4 mm. long; 

 involucels of 3-6 linear bractlets, 2 mm. long: fruit orbicular, moderately 

 compressed, 4 mm. long, nearly as long as the pedicels, only a few forming 

 in each umbellet: ribs filiform; stylopodium low, conical, not as long as 

 the oblong-ovate calyx-lobes; oil tubes large, solitary in the intervals. 



Roseburg, Oregon, collected in 1914 by W. C. Cusick, Nos. 4325, July 

 15; 4468 (type), August 18; 4466, August 18; 4507, August 28. 



Solidago cusickii n. sp. 



Nearly glabrous, the stem pubescent especially in the inflorescence, 

 and the leaves minutely ciliate; stems 10-50 cm. high, erect, slender: 

 basal leaves spatulate-oblong, obtuse, crenate, thinnish, 3-5 cm. long, 

 the margined petioles half as long as the blades; cauline similar, smaller, 

 mostly acute, sessile; inflorescence narrow, loose, erect, 4-10 cm. long, 

 subpaniculate, the heads solitary or few on slender spreading or ascend- 

 ing branches .5 to 4 cm. long; heads 8 mm. high, hemispheric, many- 



