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to Canada and the Saskatchewan ; Western Wyoming, (Tohnie.) Wahsatch 
Mountains, (Parley's Park,) Utah; 6,000 feet ahitude; June. (455.) 
Selinum^ Kingii. Stems 1-2° high, somewhat branching from a thick 
root ; radical leaves bipinnate, the cauline nearly simply pinnate, with petioles 
dilated at base ; leaflets 1-3' long, ovate or Hnear-lanceolate, coarsely and 
unequally serrate, teeth cuspidate ; umbels 5-10-rayed, glabrous ; involucre 
and involucels none ; calyx-teeth small ; petals white ; fruit hispid, 2-3" long, 
exceeding the raylets, broadly ovate, the dorsal ribs narrowly winged, 
approximate, the lateral ones broader, slightly thickened; dorsal vittee 
solitary, sunk in depressions of the seed, 2-4 on the commissure, which is 
thickened into a corky ridge in the centre. — A coarse aquatic, found in the 
East and West Humboldt Mountains, and in Euby Valley, Nevada; 6,000 
feet altitude ; August, September. (456.) 
Selinum [capitellatum, Benth. & Hook. {SpJienosciadium, Gray. 
Proc. Amer. Acad., 6. 536.) Much resembhng the last ; stem stouter, 2-5° 
high ; umbels tomentose ; the pubescent flowers and fruit sessile in globose 
heads; carpels obovate-cuneate or obscurely obcordate, the narrow base 
strongly 5-ribbed, the ribs expanding upward into thickish wings, the 
lateral ones broader.— Collected by Dr. Anderson in the Washoe Mountains, 
near Carson City, Nevada. 
Angelica Breweri, Gray. Proc. Amer. Acad., 7. 348. Stout, 3-5° 
high, glabrous or shghtly puberulent ; petioles spathaceously dilated ; leaves 
3-ternate or 3-quinate ; leaflets broad-lanceolate, sharply toothed, teeth cus- 
pidate, veinlets reticulated, lateral leaflets sessile, unequal at base and often 
united; involucre and involucels none; flowers white; fruit 3-4i" long, 
puberulent or glabrous, oblong with- thick narrow wings; the vitta? large, 
those upon the back adherent to grooves in the seed, in the lateral in- 
tervals sometimes in pairs; seed concave on the face. — On the Sierras of 
Middle California. Found in the Pah-Ute and East and West Humboldt 
Mountains, Nevada; 5-8,000 feet ahitude; August, October. (457.) 
Angelica pinnata. Glabrous throughout, or the immature fruit shghtly 
1 SELINUM, L. Calyx-teeth obsolete or rarely slightly prominent. Petals cuneate or broad, with 
a long Infolded apex, rinasi-eraarginate or 2-lobed. Stylopodia conical or depressed. Fruit ovoid or 
rarely ovate-oblong, transversly subterete, slightly compressed dorsally, with a broad commissure ; car- 
pels semiterete, the primary ribs very prominent, more or less winged, the lateral ones usually broader- 
vittse solitary in the intervals, or very rarely with a second one. Carpophore 2-parted.— Perennial' 
branching, glabrous ; leaves pinnately decompound ; involucral bracts none or few and deciduous, of the 
involucels several, small ; flowers white or rarely greenish-yellow. Bexth. & Hook. 
