WOOTON AND STANDLEY FLOEA OF NEW MEXICO. 485 



1. Coriandrum sativum L. Sp. PI. 257. 1753. 



Type locality: "Habitat in Italiae agris." 



New Mexico: Zuni; Mesilla Valley. 



The common coriander of the gardens, whose fruit is extensively used in flavoring, 

 occurs occasionally in waste ground, where it has escaped from cultivation. 



23. PASTINACA L. Parsnip. 



Tall glabrous biennial with pinnately compound leaves and yellow flowers; calyx 

 teeth obsolete; involucre and involucels none; fruit oval, flattened dorsally, the 

 dorsal ribs filiform, the lateral ones expanded into broad wings; Btylopodium de- 

 pressed. 



1. Pastinaca sativa L. Sp. PI. 262. 1753. 

 Type locality: "Habitat in Europae australioris ruderalis et pascuis." 

 New Mexico: Farmington; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains. 

 The parsnip is a common weed in many parts of the United States, hut bo far it 



is not common in New Mexico and nowhere is it a troublesome weed. 



24. FOENICULUM Adans. Fennel. 



A stout glabrous aromatic herb with large leaves dissected into numerous filiform 

 segments, large umbels of yellow flowers, and oblong glabrous fruit, terete or nearly 

 so, with prominent ribs and solitary oil tubes. 



1. Foeniculum foeniculum (L.) Karst. Deutsch. Fl. 837. 1880. 

 Anethum foeniculum L. Sp. PI. 263. 1753. 

 Foeniculum vulgare Hill, Brit. Herb. 413. 1756. 



Type locality: "Habitat in Narbonae, Armoriae, Maderae rupibus cretaccis." 

 New Mexico: Sabinal; above Rincon. 

 Escaped from cultivation. 



25. CYNOMARATHRUM Xutt. 



Acaulescent perennial witli long thick caudices and very thick long roots, the 

 caudices thickly covered with the leaves and their persistent bases; calyx teeth <-\ i- 

 dent; flowers yellow; fruit oblong, strongly flattened dorsally, with sharp or winged 



dorsal and intermediate ribs, and winged laterals; oil tubes most k several in the inter- 

 vals, rarely obscure. 



1. Cynomarathrum nuttallii (A. Gray) Coitlt. A I: • . < ontr. I. S. Nat. Herb. 7: 

 245. 1900. 



Seseli nuttallii A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 8: 287. 1870. 



Type locality: "Rocky Mountains." 



Rangi ; Wyoming and Nebraska to Utah and north western New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Cedar Hill (Standley 8025). Dry hill-, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



Probably our material represents an undescribed form, for it doei not altogether 

 agree with other material of this spa i> However, it is not complete enough for a 

 thorough comparison. 



26. PTERYXIA. Null. 



A plant , apparently of this genua, but the material to.. | r for satisfa tory deter- 

 mination, was collected bj standi.", on sand tone hills il the north end of the < 

 ri-'o Mountains, In I'M I (no 7352 1 1 La probablj an undescribed 



