SET-INUM. UMBELLIFR^E, 249" 



HERACLEUM. 



few deciduous bractlets: rays 1-2 inches long.: fruit sessife and dilated ; re- 

 ceptacle, hirsute, cuneate-obovate, 3 lines long: lateral wings broader than 

 the dorsal and intermediate ones. Along stream banks eastern Oregon to- 

 Nevada and California. 



S. Kingii Watson, Bot. King, 126. Smooth, 1-2 feet high : lower leaver 

 bipinnate the upper nearly simply pinnate with dilated petioles; leaflets- 

 ovate or linear lanceolate, 1-3 inches long, coarsely and unequally serrate; 

 umbel 5-10 rayed, with no involucels \ pedicels 2-3 lines long, fruit broadly- 

 ovate, hispid, 2-3 lines long; lateral wings broader than the narrow dorsal 

 and intermediate ones. Aquatic in mountain swampe Eastern Washington 

 to Nevada and California. 



S. Dawsoni C. & R. Bot. Gaz.., xiii, 144. A foot or so high glabrous:, 

 leaves ternate then pinnate, the small ovate acute segments laciniately 

 toothed to entire: umbel with involucels of linear-oblong scarious bractlets 

 longer than the pedicels and abruptly ending in a longer attenuation : ped- 

 icels 1-2 lines long, fruit oblong, smooth about 2 lines long, with promi- 

 nent wings, the lateral ones but little broader. At Pelly Banks Yukon 

 river, lat 61 deg., perhaps Northern Washington. 



S. Benthami Watson. Bibl. Ind. 432. Glabrous throughout: leaves 

 ternate then pinnate the oblong to linear-oblong acute segments 6-9 lines 

 long, laciniately toothed or lobed to entire ; umbels on stout peduncles, 

 10-15 rayed, with an involucre of a few linear setaceous bracts, and- 

 involucels of several elongated linear entire bractlets equalling 

 the flowers or longer; rays about an inch long; pedicels 2-3 lines 

 long: fruit ovate, 2 lines long, often with a single prominent 

 calyx-tooth. Arctic shores and mountains to Queen Charlotte islands, 

 perhaps Northern Washington. 



S. Hookeri Watson C. & R. Rev. Umb. 45. Conioselinum Fishe.ri of- 

 Anthers in part. tout, 2-3 feet high, gla rous except the somewhat pu- 

 berulent inflorescence : leaves large with much dilated petioles bipinnatifid, 

 the narrowly ovate to linear-oblong acute segments an inch or less long, 

 laciniately toothed or lobed to entire : umbel 10-25 rayed, with involucre of 

 few deciduous linear-setaceous bracts, and involucels of narrowly linear 

 more or less elongated bractlets ; rays about an inch long; pedicels 2-3 

 lines long : fruit oblong, glabrous, 2-3 lines long, with prominent but 

 scarcely winged dorsal and intermediate ribs and rather broadly winged' 

 thickish lateral ribs. Ocean bluff mouth of the Columbia to Alaska. 



6 HERACLEUM L, Gen. n. 345. 



Tall stout perennial herbs with large ternately compound 

 leaves, deciduous involucres, involucels of numerous bractlets 

 and large many-rayed umbels of white flowers with obcordate 

 petals. Calyx- lobes small or obsolete. Fruit broadly ovate,, 

 very much flattened, somewhat pubescent. Carpel with dorsal 

 and intermediate ribs filiform ; the broad lateral wings con- 

 tiguous to those of the other carpel, strongly nerved towards the 

 outer margin. Stylopodium thick conical. Oil-tubes about 

 half as long as the carpel 2-4 on the commissure. Seed very 

 much flattened dorsally. 



H. lanatum Michx Fl. i, 166. Very stout, 4-8 feet high, pubescent 

 or woolly above : petioles much dilated; leaflets petiolulate round-cordate 

 4-10 inches broad irregularly cut-toothed : rays 2-6 inches long : fruit 4-6- 

 lines long, somewhat pubescent. Wet grounds, Alaska to California and 

 across the continent. 



