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larger than originally described, some running to 8 cm. wide, and that 

 the fruits differ from the Loleta form only in having wider lateral 

 wings. The following collections, also made in Humboldt County, 

 probably belong to this species, for although the leaflets are rather 

 acute, as in C. longipes, yet the mature fruits are quite typical of 

 C. maritimum : Southbay, July 25, 1904, J. W. Congdon; near Hookton, 

 south end of Humboldt Bay, at edge of salt marsh, July 12, 1914, 

 J. P. Tracy, no. 4581. 



Cymopterus deserticola T. S. Brandegee sp. nov. 



Acaulescens : peduneulis inter petiolos vetustos orientibus, ca. 15 

 cm. altis. folios superantibus : foliis glabris, circumscriptione triangu- 

 laribus, bipinnatis, laminis ca. 5 cm. longis latisque ; pinnarum lobis 

 acutis in setas terminantibus ; petiolis ca. 8 cm. longis: floribus atro- 

 purpureis in caput diametro ca. 2 cm. congestis; involucri bracteis 

 brevibus linearibus : f ructu ca. 5 mm. longo, in capite globoso sessili, 

 alis lateralibus crassis subereis angustis pubescentibus, margine 

 sinuatis. 



The dark-purple flowers of the globose heads easily distinguish 

 this species from C. glohosus Watson. Collected by Mrs. K. Brandegee 

 on the Mohave Desert at Kramer, San Bernardino County, California, 

 May, 1913 (Herb. Univ. Calif, no. 173143), type. 



(The above description and notes are inserted at the request of 

 ]Mr. Brandegee.— H. M. H.) 



Oxypolis occidentalis C. & R. 



Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb., vii, 196 (1900). 

 The genus Oxypolis has not been reported heretofore from Cali- 

 fornia, although specimens were collected in Mariposa County by the 

 late Judge J. W. Congdon as early as 1895. Eight collections of 

 0. occidentalis are now at hand, all from the middle and southern 

 Sierra Nevada. In order to make a positive determination of these 

 it was first necessary to distinguish clearly between 0. occidentalis, 

 known up to this time only from Oregon, and 0. Fendleri (Gray) 

 Heller, of the Rocky Mountains. This study was undertaken at the 

 National Herbarium, where authentic material of both species Avas 

 consulted and where much helpful assistance was received from Dr. 

 J. N. Rose. This specialist on the Umbelliferae is not responsible for 

 the following determinations, since he did not see all of the material 

 here cited. It seems that although the presence of involucels is the 



