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pubescence: lobes of the leaflets rounded : sepals 5, lanceolate, not 

 scarious: aclienes obliquely oval or semi-obovate, substipitate, the ribs 

 or veins distinct and parallel. — Of more general distribution than any 

 of the above, inhabiting both the inner Coast mountains and the Sierra 

 Nevada; common along streams in the Oakland Hills, but not reported 

 from west of Han Francisco Bay, where T. palt/carpiun replaces it. The 

 species seems almost or quite confluent with T. Fendleri of the southern 

 Rocky Mountains. 



4. T. occidentale, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 372 (1872). Rather 

 slender, 2 ft. high: leaflets thin, sparingly glandular-puberulent beneath: 

 achenes long (^4 — % in.), lanceolate, not oblique, substipitate, tapering 

 above to a slender beak, the side parallel-ribbed. — A species of the distant 

 north and north-east, but frequent in extreme northern Calif., reaching 

 our limits in Sierra Co., at Gold Lake, C. A. Ramm. June — Aug. 



5. T. sparsiflorum, Turcz.; Ind. Sem. Petr. i. 40 (1835): T. Rkhard- 

 sonii, Gray, Am. Journ. Sci. xlii. 17 (1842). Tall and rather slender, thin- 

 leaved, strongly rue-scented: heads of achenes nodding: achenes very 

 oblique, much flattened, tipped with a short incurved style, the sides with 

 low nerves. — In the higher Sierra, from Donner Lake northward. 



14. TRAUTVETTERIA, Fischer & Mei/ei: Perennial herbs, with 

 palmately lobed leaves both radical and cauline. Flowers small, white, 

 terminal, in a corymbose panicle. Sepals 3 5, concave, petaloid, cadu- 

 cous. Petals 0. Pistils go , becoming membranaceous 4-angled somewhat 

 bladdery 1-seeded fruits disposed in heads. Seed ascending. 



1. T. g-raiulis, Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. i. 37 (1838); Wats. Bot. Calif, ii. 42.'5. 

 Slender, 1 — 3 ft. high: leaves few, the radical long-stalked, all of thin 

 texture, deeply 5— 7-lobed, the lobes acuminate, laciniate-toothed, beneath 

 showing a sparse curled pubescence: achenes little more than a line 

 long, broadly gibbous at base, disposed in globose heads.— -A plant of the 

 far North, found in Plumas Co., on Mill Creek, Mrs. Austin. 



15. ACTJEA, Linnxus (Hekb-Christopher, Bane-Berry). Peren- 

 nials, with roots somewhat knotted and tuberous. Leaves ample, ter- 

 nately compound, ^'lowers small, white, in a terminal raceme. Sepals 

 about 4, caducous. Petals 1 or more. Staihens 00. Pistil 1; stigma 

 sessile, 2-lobed. Fruit indehiscent, berry-like, the fleshy pericarp, with 

 a false line of dehiscence on one side, enclosing 2 closely packed vertical 

 rows of flattened semiorbicular seeds.— A small genus, seeming to form 

 one of the connecting links between this family and the Berberideae. 



1. A. arguta, Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. i. 35 (1838): A. spicata, var. argufa, 

 Torr. Pac. R. Rep. iv. 63 (1857): A. rubra, var. argnta, Greene, Pitt. ii. 108 

 (1890). Stem 2—3 ft. high, bearing one or more large stalked leaves; 



