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2. Washingtonia longistylis (Torr.) Britton, 



Sinoollicr Swcct-Ciccly. Anise-root. 



Fig. 3109. 



^ryrrhis longislyHs Torr. Fl U. S 310. 1824. 

 Osinorrhha lotigislyl's DC. Prodr 4: 232. 1830. 

 W longistylis Britton in Britt. & Brown, III. Fl. 2 : 530. 

 1897. 



Similar to the preceding species Ijut the leaflets 

 usitally less deeply cleft, the stem either glahrous or 

 densefyvillous : styles in fruit ahout l" long; hracts 

 of the involucels lajiceolate, 3"-4" long, persistent. 



In woods, Nova Scotia to Ontario, Assiniboia, Ala- 

 bama, Tennessee, Kansas and Colorado. Ascends to 

 4200 ft. in North Carolina. Roots with a more spicy 

 taste and stronger odor of anise than those of IV. Clay- 

 ton!. Plants with stems either glabrous or densely white 

 villous are sometimes found growing together. May- 

 June. Sweet-anise, -chevril or -jayril. Cicely-root. 



3. Washingtonia divaricata Britton. 

 Western Sweet-Cicely. Fig. 31 10. 



Osmorrhica divaricata Nutt. ; T. & G. Fl N. A. i ; 



639. Name only. 1840 

 W. divaricata Britton in Britt & Brown, 111. Fl. 2 : 



53I. 1897. 



Foliage pubescent; stem slender, somewliat 

 pubescent or glabrous, li-3 high, widely 

 branched above; leaf-segments thin, ovate, 

 acute, or acuminate, coarsely toothed and usu- 

 ally incised, '-2*' long; umbels long-peduncled, 

 3-6-rayed, the very slender rays 2-4' long in 

 fruit; involucels comtnonly none; pedicels 

 very slender, 2"-i' long; fruit about 6" long, 

 i" wide or rather luore, beaked; style and 

 stylopodium i"-l*" long, the stylopodium 

 slender-conic. 



Woodlands, Quebec to New Hampshire ; Mani- 

 toba to South Dakota, British Columbia, Utah and 

 California. May-June 



4. Washingtonia obtiisa Coult. & Rose. 

 Blunt-fruited Sweet-Cicely. Fig. 3111. 



Washingtonia obtnsa Coult. & Rose, Contr. U. S. 

 Nat. Herb. 7: 64. 1900. 



0.n)!orWii'^a obfH^o Fernald, Rhodora4: 154. 1902. 



Glabrous or pubescent, 2* high or less. 

 Leaf-segments ovate to lanceolate, acute or 

 acuminate, -2 long; involucre none; utnbels 

 3-5-rayed, the slender rays very widely spread- 

 ing, or one or two of them deflexed ; pedicels 

 widely divergent, -1' long in fruit; fruit 

 6"-8" long, rounded or short-tipped at the 

 apex, the low stylopodium less than I" high. 



Woodlands. Newfoundland and Labrador to 

 New Brunswick and Quebec: British Columbia 

 and Assiniboia to California and Arizona. May- 

 June. 



