478 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



2. Eryngium sparganophyllum Hemsl. in Hook. Icon. PL IV. 6: pi. 2508. 1897. 



Eryngium longifolium A. Gray, PL Wright. 2: 65. 1853, not.Cav. 1793. 



Tyte locality: Las Playas Springs, near the Sierra de las Animas, New Mexico. 

 Type collected by Wright (no. 1103). 



Range: Known only from type locality. 



3. WASHINGTONIA Raf. Sweet cicely. 



Plants glabrate or pubescent, from thick aromatic roots; leaves ternately decom- 

 pound, the leaflets ovate to lanceolate, coarsely toothed or cleft; calyx teeth obsolete; . 

 fruit linear-oblong or clavate, bristly on the ribs; carpels hardly flattened; oil tubes 

 obsolete in mature fruit, often numerous in the young fruit. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Involucels of several bracts; fruit beaked 1. W. longistylis. 



Involucels wanting; fruit obtuse 2. W. obtusa. 



1. Washingtonia longistylis (Torr.) Britton in Britt. & Brown, Illustr. Fl. 2: 



530. 1897. 

 Myrrhis longistylis Torr. Fl. North. & Mid. U. S. 310. 1824. 

 Osmorrhiza longistylis DC. Prodr. 4: 232. 1830. 

 Type locality: Wet meadows near Albany, New York. 

 Range : Nova Scotia and North Carolina to Montana and New Mexico. 

 New Mexico: Johnsons Mesa (Wooton). Damp woods, in the Transition Zone. 



2. Washingtonia obtusa Coult. & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7: 64. 1900. 

 Type locality: Ishowood Creek, northwestern Wyoming. 



Range : British Columbia and Wyoming to California and New Mexico. 

 New Mexico: Tunitcha Mountains; Chama; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; 

 Hillsboro Peak; Cloudcroft. Damp woods, in the Transition and Canadian zones. 



4. APITJM L. 



Erect glabrous herb with pinnately or ternately divided leaves with thick, strongly 

 scented petioles and umbels of white flowers opposite the leaves; calyx teeth obsolete; 

 fruit laterally flattened, ovoid or broader than long, the ribs prominent, obtuse, corky; 

 oil tubes solitary in the intervals. 



1. Apium graveolens L. Sp. PL 264. 1753. Celery. 



Type locality: "Habitat in Europae humectis, praesertim maritimis." 

 New Mexico: Kingston; above Tularosa. 

 Escaped from cultivation. 



5. SPERMOLEPIS Raf. 



Slender, smooth branched annuals with finely dissected leaves having filiform or 

 linear segments, the small flowers in involucellate, very unequally few-rayed, pedun- 

 culate umbels; calyx teeth obsolete; fruit ovoid, flattened laterally, bristly or tuber- 

 culate; seed face plane. 



key to the species. 



Fruit tuberculate 1. S. divaricatus. 



Fruit with hooked bristles 2. S. echinatus. 



1. Spermolepis divaricatus (Walt.) Britton, Mem. Torrey Club 5: 244. 1894. 

 Daucus divaricatus Walt. Fl. Carol. 114. 1788. 

 Leptocaulis divaricatus DC. Mem. Ombel. 39. 1829. 

 Type locality: North or South Carolina. 



Range: North Carolina and Florida to Kansas and New Mexico. 

 New Mexico: Las Vegas (Dewey). Open slopes, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



