STUDIES IN THE CALIFORNIAN 
UMBELLIFERA—I. 
By Wiis L. Jepson. 
Angelica Californica. Caulescent, 4 feet high, roughish- 
puberulent on the leaves and ends of the rays, the stem 
glabrous: leaves biternate or quinate, then once pinnate or 
partially bipinnate: leaflets broadly ovate, 2 inches long, the 
terminal mostly 3-lobed at summit, the lower often lobed or 
divided at base, all irregularly serrate with the serratures 
mucronulate: peduncles bearing at or near their middle 
broadly dilated bracts: rays 40 to 50, unequal, 1 to 6 inches 
long; pedicels sub-equal, 3 lines long: flowers white: fruit 
(nearly mature) oblong, 2 to 24 lines wide, 4 to 44 lines long, 
dorsal and intermediate ribs winged, lateral wings less than 
width of the body; oil tubes 3 in the intervals (some often 
obscure or wanting), two on the commissural face, laterally 
disposed. 
Gates Cafion, Vaca Mountains, June 20, 1892. In habit 
and general appearance this comes nearest A. tomentosa. 
In leafiet character it strikingly resembles some forms of that 
species, although the leaflets are always smaller and usually 
much thinner. A tomentosa is, besides, hoary-tomentose, 
has equal rays, and solitary depressed oil-tubes in the 
intervals. 
Lepror@nia Cantrornica, Nutt., var. platyearpa. Caul- 
escent, 4 feet high, glabrous throughout, leaves biternate, 
then pinnate, petioles dilated: leaflets cuneate-obovate, 3- 
lobed, or the terminal 3-parted, the lobes coarsely toothed; 
rays equal, 2 to 3 inches long, pedicals subequal, five lines 
long: flowers yellow: fruit oblong-ovoid, 5 lines wide, 7 
lines long, broadly winged, emarginate at both ends; oil 
tubes, 6 on the commissural face, 3 in the intervals. 
Collected at nearly two thousand feet altitude in Gates 
Cation, Vaca Mountains; in flower March 25, in frait, June 
20, 1892. Ranked as a variety by reason of its greater 
