SPECIES OF CICUTA. / 7 



size of the plant ; leaflets narrowly lanceolate-acuminate, 

 closely and sharply serrate, the almost spinulose tips of the 

 teeth somewhat spreading, 



A somewhat local species ; but very plentiful about Teal 

 Station in the midst of the Snisun Marsh, California, and also 

 near Martinez on the opposite side of Suisun Bay, growing 

 among tall reeds and sedges in a hard but coarse and loose 

 sod, the roots and base of stem laved daily by the bi-ackish 

 tide- water. Doubtless this is the largest of the cicutas, seldom 

 less than six feet high, often nearly ten ; the stem not rarely 

 two inches thick below. 



3. C. occiDENTALis. Roots fewer (3 to 10), clustered at 

 the base of a more slender somewhat ascending axis. 3 to 5 

 inches long, often nearly | inch thick above the middle and 

 distinctly but slenderly fusiform, white, the oily exudation 

 reddish ; accessories manifest, often rather copious but coarse, 

 fleshy with little woody fibre : stem stoutisli, green, scarcely 

 glaucous, 3 to 6 feet high, paniculate from toward the base : 

 leaves bipinnate ; leaflets 2 or 3 inches long, narrowly lanceo- 



late, coarsely serrate ; flowers of a dull greenish white, small 



and not showy. 



Probably most of tlie specimens of what I here name as a 

 new species will be found in the herbaria under C luaculafa. 

 The plant is common from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado 

 to the Sierra Nevada in California, and mny often have been 

 collected. My specimens are, first : from wet grounds near 

 Tehachapi, Kern Co., Calif. (24 June, 1889), the plants in 

 flow-er only. The herbage is a little glaucous in these ; the 

 leaflets, often 4 inches long, are rathei broadly lanceolate, 

 coarsely and unequally and hardly serrately toothed; tri- 

 angular-lanceolate scarious edged bracts subtend the umbel- 

 lules, and also someAvhat sparingly the umbel. I would not 

 designate this as the type of the species, but may be permitted 

 to call it loxma frondosa. Bolaiider's number 6343 from the 

 Mono Trail in the same general region of country, is much 

 like this as far as known; but its broadest leaflets are 



