652 UMBELLIFERAE 



Minarets, Madora Co., Cuvfldon; Upper Funston Mdws., Ivorn Canon. 'J'lio Funaton Mdws. form 

 with linear loaf-aogments, iu turn, intergradcs to the usual form of the Sierra Nevada. 



Refs. — Sphknosciadium capitkllatum Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. G:537 (1865), type loc. 

 Ebbetts Pass, Brewer; Jcpsou, Man. 729, fig. 712 (1925). Selinum capitcUatum 13. & W. Bot. 

 Cal. 1:265 (1876). Sphenosciadium capitcUatum var. scahrum Jepson I.e., Alta Mdws., Tulare 

 Co., Hopping 504 (type). S. capitcUaturn var. validum Jepson, I.e. S. validuin Congdon, Erythea 

 7 : 185 (1900), type loc. Wawona, Congdon. S. capitcUatum var. eryngiifolium Jepson I.e. Selinum 

 cri/noiifoUum Greene, Pitt. 2:102 (1890), type loc. above Yoseraite, Drew. Splienosciadium 

 eryngiifolium C. & R. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7:128 (1900). 



32. CYMOPTERUS Raf. 



Perennial herbs with basal leaves. IlerbaL'e lilabrous (except in no. 6) . Leaves 

 usuall}' ternate, then once to tlirice pinnate and much dissected or incised. In- 

 volucre usually lacking. Involucels always present. Flowers yellow, white or 

 purple, in compound umbels. Calyx-teeth usually evident. Fruit oblong to orbicu- 

 lar, mostly dorsally flattened, the carpels 3 to 5-winged. Stylopodium wanting. 

 Oil-tubes several in the intervals, 2 to many on the commissure. Seed flat to very 

 slightly or not at all dorsally flattened. — Species about 35, western North America 

 and eastern Asia. (Greek kuraa, wave, and pteron, wing, the ribs in some species 

 with undulate wings.) 



Wings of carpels thin, undulate-crisped (except in the var.) ; tall plants; Sierra Nevada and mts. 



of n. Cal 1. C. terebinthinus. 



"Wings of carpels commonly thickened or corky at insertion, sometimes corky throughout. 

 Erect (though reduced) plants of the deserts and desert slopes of mountain ranges. 

 Leaves glabrous. 



Fruit wings entire. 



Involucre none or a few small bracts ; leaves light green. 



Flowers in umbels; ultimate leaf -segments lanceolate or oblong 



2. C. panamintensis. 

 Flowers in dense heads ; leaf -divisions ovate, pinnately incised and crenate. 



3. C. globosus. 



Involucre white, very conspicuous ; flowers in dense heads or in compact umbels ; 



leaves grayish, the ultimate divisions ovate, pinnately incised or 



crenate 4. C. purpurascens. 



Fruit wings with shredded margins; flowers in dense globose purple heads 



5. C. deserticola. 

 Leaf -blades scaberulous. 



Fruit wings plane ; umbels with rays or sometimes capitate 6. C. aboriginum. 



Fruit wings undulate-convolute; umbels capitate 7. C. cinerarius. 



Prostrate plants of sandy sea-beaches; umbellets capitate 8. C. littoralis. 



1. C. terebinthinus T. & G. Plants % to 11/2 feet high, or high alpine states 

 much reduced, the leaves all basal ; peduncles about twice as long as the leaves, aris- 

 ing from the shortly branched root-crown which is clothed with persistent leaf 

 sheaths ; leaf-blades 2 to 6 inches long, on petioles about as long, usually ternate, 

 then 1 to 3 times pinnate and pinnately dissected into short linear segments about 

 1 line long; umbels witli unequal rays ; involucre none ; involucels of linear acumi- 

 nate bractlets ; flowers yellow ; fruiting rays 1 to 3 inches long ; fruiting pedicels 3 

 to 5 lines long ; fruit broadly oblong to nearly orbicular, 4 to 6 lines long ; carpels 

 with 3 to 5 broad thin undulate crisped wings, or one carpel with broad wings 

 (especially the lateral wings) and the companion carpel with wings narrow, crisped 

 and much reduced; oil-tubes very small, 4 to 9 in the intervals, 8 to 16 (or 20) on 

 the commissure. 



Dry brushy or rocky slopes, 5000 to 11,000 feet : Sierra Nevada from Tulare 

 Co, to Lassen Co. North to Washington. May-June, fr, July- Aug. 



Locs. — North Fork Middle Tule River, Jepson 4688 ; Farewell Gap, Jepson 1013 ; Putnam 

 Canon, Tulare Co., Walter Fry 335; Bubbs Creek, Jepson 794; Huntington Lake, A. L. Grant 

 1137; Jackass Mdw., Fresno Co., E. Ferguson 437; Dana Fork Tuolumne River, Jepson 3264; 

 Muir Gorge to Table Lake, Tuolumne River, Jepson 3390 ; Rancheria Mt., Tuolumne Co., Jepson 

 4597; Kennedy Lake, Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 248; Barrette Camp, 3 mi. s. of Tells Peak, 



