62 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
variety has stems as slender as Osmorhiza nuda and are either 
erect or decumbent and widely spreading. ‘The basal leaves are 
ternate and with divisions pinnate into 1-5 pairs of long-acumin- 
ate leaflets cuneate at base and inclined to be doubly spinulose-ser- 
rate and 1-3 inches long. The fruit is oval-ovate to linear-elliptic 
aud lem. or less long, almost cylindrical in cross-section, an 
smooth. The roots, unlike those of Osmorhiza, are fleshy-woody 
and coarse, large, and vertical. It has the same almost capillary 
rays much elongated, and the involucre is wanting asa rule, but 
sometimes is represented by a short leaf, mostly of 3leaflets, The 
flowers are yellow. The whole habit is that of Osmorhiza, anl it 
grows in the shade of pines and liveoaks on the top of the Laguna 
its., Sept 22 1930, No, 27071. Typical Brandegei, my No. 24152 
from the eastern slope in 1928 is very coarse and large, growing in 
damp places, in the open in the upper part of the Tropical and 
below the liveoaks, one would consider distinct but there are in- 
tergrades. 
rracacia Tapalpe n. 89. Typ3 in Pomona coll. A 
low plant wita tae habit of faaschia nudicaulis and about the 
same hight, and, like it, widely spreading, with similar leaf-sheaths 
on the upper leaves (inflated and with winged petiole),and with 
the same(3-4 pairs) number of leaflets, but leaflets rather narrowly 
vvate, wouce. and insisel instead of oval-ovate and minutely cre- 
nue and obtuse, about 4 inch long. Flowers yellow. Umbels 
simple asin nudicaulis, withont involucre or sometimes with 
leaf-like one. Rays hardly 1 em. long, rather few. Involucels 
with tip usuallyerect. In fruit the peduncles seem to stiffen and 
be more erect. t the point where the first peduncle starts is 2 
3-branched and all but one leafy bracted. One would think that 
this kind of development would lead to an indefinite growth, bul 
none of my planls are over 4 inches high. There are no otherstem 
