MEXICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN UMBELLIFER^ II9 



Spananthe paniculata Jacq. Coll. 3 : 247. 1789. 



Vera Cruz: in fields near Orizaba, altitude 1200 meters, Pringle 



6231, October 31, 1S95. 

 Guatemala : along roadside between Nenton and Jacaltenango. 



altitude 1050— 1590 meters. Nelson 3565, December 18, 1895. 

 Costa Rica: altitude 1200 meters, Pittier 19, December 12, 1887; 



Pittier 431, August 188S; Tonihiz 431, August 12, 1889; 



Tonduz 7118, July 1892; altitude 1500 meters, Pittier 6980, 



August 28, 1892. 



5. ASTERICIUM Cham. & Schlecht. Linn^ea 1 : 254. 1826. 

 A South American genus, represented in our region by the single 

 endemic species A. Jlexiiosum Hemsley, collected but once, and with 

 immature fruit, by Pates in " South Mexico." 



6. SANICULA L. Sp. PI. i: 235. 1753. 



A genus of about thirty species, belonging to both hemispheres, 

 three of which belong to our region, S. liberta Cham. & Schlecht. and 

 6". 77iexicana DC, both cited by Hemsley, the former being endemic, 

 and S. bipinnatijida Dough, a Pacific Coast species extending into 

 Lower California. 



Sanicula mexicana DC. Prod. 4: 84. 1830. 



Vera Cruz : near Jalapa, altitude 1200 meters, Pringle 8061, April- 

 May 1S99. 



Chiapas: above San Cristobal, altitude 2100-2640 meters. Nelson 

 3210, September 18-22, 1895 ; along the road between Tenejapa 

 and Yajalon, altitude 900-1500 meters, N^elson'}^2\<,^ October 13, 

 1895. 



Guatemala : Volcano of Santa Maria, altitude 2400—3450 meters. 

 Nelson 3705, January 24, 1896. 



Costa Rica: Pittier 255, May 27, 1888; altitude 2000 meters, 

 Tonduz 255, August 31, 1SS9; altitude 2000 meters, Pittier 

 4272, July 1891 ; Tonduz 7676, March 1893. 



Sanicula bipinnatifida Dougl. in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 258. //. 

 g2. 1834. 

 Lower California : near Ensenada, Jones 3690, April 10, 1882. 



7. ERYNGIUM L. Sp. PI. i: 232. 1753. 



A genus of about two hundred species, distributed chiefly through- 

 out temperate and subtropical regions, and especially abundant in 

 America. Hemsley, in 18S0, enumerated thirty-seven species, five of 

 them without names, and has now about completed a revision of the 

 Mexican and Central American species of the genus, involving numer- 



