638 rMHKLLIFERAE 



distinct ur nearly dislim-t. romul-ohovato to oblunjr, scarious-niar^'ined, ontire or 

 denticulate, usually acuminate, often shortly petiolate; rays often minutely sca- 

 borulous. the fertile 3 to 11, 1 to 3 inches lonp:; pedicels in fruit IVi to 3 lines long; 

 fruits jzlabrous, suborbicular or elliptic, 2V2 to 4y> lines lonfif, the wings V2 to 

 almost as wide as the body; oil-tubes none on the commissure, none in tlie intervals 

 or indistinct, but often with 2 or 3 obscure or superficial minor ridges. 



Wet or alkali soil, 20 to 4100 feet: Sonoma Co.; South Coast Ranges from 

 Contra Costa Co. to San Luis Obispo Co.; Great Valle3^ ]\Iar.-Apr., fr. Apr.- June. 



Locs. — Sonoma Co.: Windsor, Jcpson 9297. South Coast Ranges: Hunter Pt., San Fran- 

 cisco, Jepson 12,728; Los Bucllis Hills, Santa Clara Co., R. J. Smith; Paso Robles, Georgiana P. 

 Ballard; Carrizo Plain, se. San Luis Obispo Co., Jepson 12,007. Great Valley: Yolo Co., Blan- 

 Icinship ; Little Oak, A'acaville, Jepson 14,283; Byron, Greene; Exeter, Tulare Co. (Contrib. U. S. 

 Nat. Herb. 7:217). 



Var. denticulatum .Tepson. Stout, 13 to 16 inches high; leaf -segments broader; rays un- 

 equal, the fertile 2^4 to 5^^ inches long; wing-margins roughened or denticulate. — Exeter, Tulare 

 Co. 



Var. solanense Jepson. Eachises and leaf -segments scabridulous-puberulent. — Cannon sta., 

 Solano Co. 



Var. erjrthropodum Jepson var. n. Stylopodiums conspicuously dark purple. — (Stylopo- 

 dia couspicue atropurpurea.) — Sandy hillocks on the plain of the San Joaquin Valley at Califa, 

 Madera Co., Jepson 15,171 (type). 



Eefs. — LoMATlUM CARUIFOLIUM C. & R. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7:216 (1900); Jepson, 

 Man. 720, fig. 705 (1925). Ferula caruifolia H. & A. Bot. Beech. 348 (1840), type from Cal., 

 Douglas, Peucedanum caruifolium T. & G. Fl. 1:628 (1840); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 359 

 (1901), ed. 2, 303 (1911). Cogswellia caruifolia Jones, Contrib. W. Bot. 12:34 (1908). C. carui- 

 folia var. patens Jones, I.e. 12:41 (1908), type loc. Tehachapi, Jones; oil-tubes evident, 2 to 4 

 in the intervals (ex char.). Var. denticulatum Jepson, Madroiio 1 : 151 (1924), Man. 721 (1925). 

 Peucedanum erosum Jepson, Erythea 5:1 (1897), type loc. Exeter, Eastivood. Var. solanense 

 Jepson, Madrono 1:151 (1924), type loc. Cannon sta., Solano Co., Jepson 6785; Man. 721 (1925). 

 Var. ERYTHROPODUM Jepson, 



6. L. vaseyi C. & R. Range Hog-Fennel. Peduncles ascending, 6 to 12 

 inches high, arising from the short stems of the root-crown, naked or frequently 

 with 1 or 2 leaves; foliage minutely puberulent, the plant otherwise mostly gla- 

 brous; leaves ternate-pinnate, the divisions pinnately cut into linear-oblong seg- 

 ments 1^ to 3 lines long and V2 to 1 line broad; petioles inflated, Y2 to 1 inch long; 

 rays 5 to 14, the fertile % to 2 inches long; pedicels 1 to 2 lines long; bractlets 

 euneate-obovate to oblanceolate, laciniate-toothed at apex or abruptly acuminate; 

 flowers yellow; fruit elliptic or slightly narrowed towards the base, 4 to 7 lines 

 long, 3 to 4V2 lines wide, the body situated mostly above the middle, only about 1 

 line wide and half as long as the fruit but contracted at base into a stipe-like process, 

 and at apex into a beak-like process, the whole with broad wings broader than the 

 body; dorsal and intermediate ribs obvious, with broad solitary oil-tubes in the 

 intervals, 4 on the commissure. 



Dry mesas and mountain slopes, 1200 to 5500 feet : coastal Southern Califor- 

 nia; desert ranges in Inyo Co.; Tehachapi Mts.; Sierra Nevada from Kern Co. to 

 Eldorado Co. ; inner South Coast Range ; middle and inner North Coast Ranges 

 from Napa Co. to Siskiyou Co. Apr., fr. May-June. 



Locs. — S. Cal.: El Cajon, San Diego Co., T. Brandegee; San Timoteo Canon, Redlands, 

 Jepson 6079; San Bernardino, Parish 3628. Inyo Co.: Darwin Mesa (Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 

 4:116). Tehachapi Range: Keene, Jepson 7157. Sierra Nevada: Rock Pile, se. of Bakersfield 

 (hills near), Davy 1870; Kaweah, Eastwood; North Fork, Madera Co., Jepson 12,875; Alder 

 Creek, Yosemite, Jepson 4317; Bower Cave, Mariposa Co., Jepson 14,313; Pine Log, Tuolumne 

 Co., A. L. Grant 692 ; Columbia, Jepson 6291 ; New York Ravine, Eldorado Co., E. Brandegee. 

 Inner South Coast Range: Los Gatos Creek (head of), w. Fresno Co., Jepson 12,197. North 

 Coast Ranges: Napa Range near Calistoga, Jepson 14,311; Stonyford, w. Colusa Co., Jepson 

 16,281 ; Edgewood, Siskiyou Co., Curran. 



Refs.— LoMATiUM VASEYI C. & R. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7:216 (1900); Jepson, Man. 

 721 (1925). Peucedanum vaseyi C. & R. Bot. Gaz. 13:144 (1888), type loc. San Bernardino Mts., 

 Vasey 231; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 359 (1901), ed. 2, 302 (1911). Cogswellia vaseyi C. & R. 

 Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12:451 (1909). C. caruifolia var. vaseyi Jones, Contrib. W. Bot. 12:41 



