CATALOGUE. 121 
CicuTA MACULATA, L. From Florida to Mississippi and northward to 
Canada and tlie Saskatchewan ; collected rather rarely west of the Missis- 
sippi, but reported from the Lower Platte, (Fr(^mont,) Western Texas, New 
Mexico and Southern Cahfornia. Truckee, Diamond, and Thousand Spring 
Valleys, Nevada; 4-6,000 feet altitude ; July-September. (441.) 
Carum^ Gairdneei, Benth. & Hook. (Edos?nia, T. & G.) Root tuber- 
ous : stems terete, slender, 1-4° high, with a few 1-3-pinnate or ternate 
leaves and hnear or sometimes lanceolate leaflets, the upper leaves sheathing 
and often simple; umbels on elongated peduncles, with 6-12 rays ; calyx- 
teeth small, ovate, persistent; petals white, broadly obcordate; fruit about 
1" long, ovate, glabrous, contracted at the commissure, with solitary broad 
thin vittEe; involucre of 1-2, and involucels of several setaceous bracts. — 
Tubers 2-3 in a fascicle, scarcely the size of the little finger, but forming an 
important article of food to the Indian tribes. The common name for it 
through Utah and Nevada is ''Yep," ''Yepah," or ''Yampah." It is very 
nutritious, contains much starch, and its taste is sweet and pleasant. From 
Washington Territory and Idaho to California and Utah. Frequent through 
Nevada and in the Wahsatch ; 5-6,500 feet altitude ; June-October. (442.) 
SiUM LiNEAEE, Mx. With Icaves varying from nearly entire to incisely 
pinnatifid. From Florida to Mississipjn and northward to Canada and the 
Saskatchewan ; collected also in Kansas, Colorado, and Oregon. Found in 
the Truckee and Euby Valleys, Nevada, and in Weber Valley, Utah ; 4-6,000 
feet altitude ; July-August. (443.) 
SiUM ANGUSTiFOLiUM, L. Widely but sparingly distributed ; Massachu- 
setts to Illinois and Wisconsin, Wyoming, Oregon, California, New Mexico, 
and Florida. Found in Diamond, Ruby and Upper Humboldt Valleys, 
Nevada, and in Salt Lake Valley; 4,500-6,000 feet altitude; July- 
October. (444.) 
PiMPiNELLA^ APIODORA, Gray. Proc. Amer. Acad.^ 7. 345. Stems 
'■ CAEUM, L. Calyx-teeth small, minute, or none, (conspicuous in C. Kellogii.) Petals with the 
point inflexed and more or less 2-lobed by the intrusion of the niidvein. Btylopodia more or less 
broadly conical. Fruit ovate or oblong, laterally compressed and often iianowcd at the comniis- 
sure, very rarely didymons ; carpels 5-an,<iled : ril)s obtuse, sli<,ddly pvouunent, e(|ual. tli.- latcm' 
marginal; vittie solitary, very rarely in pairs. Carpophore bifid or 2-]>arted. S< i (l snI. terete. . 
upon the face, or flat, or slightly concave.— Annual or perennial, and o;labrnns. m- tlie fVnit (.nly hispid. 
Leaves pinnate, or ternately or pinnately decompound. Umbels ronipounil. Leaves of the involucre 
few or none, of the involucels usually several, entire. Bentii. & Udok. 
2PIMPINELLA, L. Calyx-teeth obsolete or rarely small. Petals narrow'ed to au inflexed point. 
Stylopodia cushioned, or conical ; styles usually elongated. Fruit ovate or shorter than the width, more 
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