WOOTOlSr AND STANDLEY FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. 479 



2. Spermolepis echinatus (Nutt.) Heller, Bot. Expl. Texas 3. 1895. 



Leptocaulis echinatus Nutt.; DC. Prodr. 4: 107. 1830. 



Type locality: Red River, Arkansas. 



Range : Alabama and southern California to Mexico. 



New Mexico: Carrizalillo Mountains; Florida Mountains; Tres Hermanas; Mesilla 

 Valley; Organ Mountains. Mesas and low hills, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 



6. CICUTA L. Water hemlock. 



Large coarse glabrous perennial from a thickened root, with twice pinnately com- 

 pound leaves ha\dng large, ovate to lanceolate, serrate leaflets, and with large umbels 

 of white flowers; calyx teeth prominent; fruit oblong to orbicular, glabrous; carpels 

 with strongly flattened corky ribs, the lateral ones largest; oil tubes large. 



1. Cicuta occidentalis Greene, Pittonia 2: 7. 1889. 



Type locality: Trinidad, Colorado. 



Range : Idaho and South Dakota to Nevada and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: San Juan Valley; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Black Range; 

 White and Sacramento mountains. In swamps and along streams and ditches, in 

 the Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 



7. CARUM L. 



Smooth erect slender herb with tuberous or fusiform roots, pinnate leaves with 

 few linear leaflets, iiivolucels of several narrow bracts, and Avhite flowers; calyx teeth 

 prominent; fruit orbicular to oblong, glabrous; carpels with filiform inconspicuous 

 ribs; oil tubes 2 to 6 on the commissural side, solitary in the intervals. 



1. Carum gairdneii (Hook. & Am.) A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 344. 1867. 

 Atenia gairdneri Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. 349. 1840. 

 Type locality: Near San Francisco or Monterey, California. 

 PtANGE: British Columbia and California to South Dakota and New Mexico. 

 New Mexico: West Fork of the Gila {Metcalfe 497). 



8. ALETES Coult. & Rose. 



Acaulescent glabrous perennial with pinnate leaves, broad, sharply toothed, rather 

 distant leaflets, and yellow flowers; calyx teeth prominent; fruit oblong, glabrous, 

 the ribs prominent, equal; oil tubes large, solitary. 



1. Aletes acaulis (Torr.) Coult. & Rose, Rev. Umbell. 126. 1888. 



Deweya f acaulis Torr. U. S. Rep. Expl. Miss. Pacif. 4': 94. 1856. 



Oreosciadiura acaule A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 343. 1867. 



Type locality: Crevices of rocks near Santa Antonita, New Mexico. Type col- 

 lected by Bigelow in 1853. 



Range: Mountains of New Mexico and Colorado. 



New Mexico: Socorro; Sandia Mountains. Transition Zone. 



9. BEBITLA Hoffm. 



Smooth aquatic perennial, 20 to 40 cm. high or more, with once pinnate leaves, 

 variously cut leaflets, conspicuous involucres, and medium-sized umbels of white 

 flowers; calyx teeth minute ; fruit rotund, emarginate at the base; carpels nearlyglobose, 

 with slender inconspicuous ribs and thick corky pericarp; oil tubes numerous, con- 

 tiguous, closely surrounding the seed cavity; seeds terete. 



1. Berula erecta (Huds.) Coville, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 115. 1893. 

 Sium erectum Huds. Fl. Angl. 103. 1762. 

 Sium angustifolium L. Sp. Pi. ed. 2. 1672. 1763. 



