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‘bristly on the ribs. Carpels slightly flattened dorsally or not at 
all, with 5 acutely carinate equal ribs. Stylopodium mostly de- 
pressed. QOil-tubes obsolete in mature fruit. Seed-face concave. 
G. occidentalis Nutt.l].c. Rather stout, puberulent or pubescent: 
leaves 2-3-ternate ; leaflets 1-4 inches long, acute, coarsely serrate, rarely 
‘incised: umbel 5-12-rayed, naked or with 1 or 2 involucral bracts; rays 
1-5 inches long, mostly erect: pedicels 1-3 lines long: fruit 7-12 lines 
dong obtuse at base, glabrous, with prominent acute ribs: stylopodium 
half toa line long; seed-face concave. In the higher mountains, Brit. 
Columbia to California, Montana and the Wahsatch. 
G. ambiguum Gray Proc. Am. Acad. viii, 386. Glabrous or hairy 
‘near the nodes: leaves 2-3 ternate: leaflets 1-2 inches long, acute, shortly 
_ toothed or cleft: umbel 4-8-rayed, naked; rays about 2 inches long, some- 
what spreading; pedicels 1-3 lines long: fruit 6-7 lines long acutish at 
base, sometimes bristly, with prominent ribs: styles half a line long: seed- 
face concaye.. Western Washington and Oregon to California. 
29 VELA DC. Prodr. iv, 230. 
DEWEYA T. & G. 
Perennial herbs from thick elongated roots with mostly radical 
pinnate or ternate leaves, conspicuous involucels and vellow 
flowers. Calyx-lobes obsolete or prominent. Fruit oblong to 
orbicular, glabrous or pubescent. Carpel somewhat flattened 
laterally, with prominent and equal filiform ribs (the intermedi- 
ates somewhat distant from the laterals) and a thin pericarp. 
Oil-tubes conspicuous, 3-6 in the intervals, 4-10 on the commis- 
sure. Seed terete, the face strongly involute, enclosing a central 
cavity. : 
YY. glauca C. & R. Contrib. Nat. Herb. iii, 321. Shortly caulescen 
slender, 8-18 inches high, erect or somewhat spreading, glabrous and 
somewhat glaucous: radical leaves small, bi- or tri-ternate; stem leaves of- 
ten simply ternate ; leaflets small, 4-8 lines long, mostly cordate or truncate 
at base, often 3-lohed or 3-parted, irregularly toothed: umnel 7-15-rayed, 
with no inyolucre and involucels: of small linear bracts: rays 1-3 inches 
long; pedicels a line long or less: fruit orbicular, a line in diameter; carpo- 
phore parted below the middle, flowers yellow. On dry hillsides in open 
wood3, Southwestern Oregon. 
VY. Kelloggii C. & R. Rev. Umb. 121. Deweya Kelloggii Gray. 
Acaulescent or nearly so, mostly puberulent; 2-3 feet high: leaves tri- 
ternate; leaflets ovate, half to less than an inch long, mostly *-lobed: 
umbel 8-16-rayed, mostly with no involucre, and involucels of small linear 
bractlets; rays 2-3 inches long: fruit 1-2 lines long, almost as broad, some- 
what notched at base, with filiform ribs: oil-tubes 3 in the dorsal inter- 
vals, 5-6 in the lateral ones, 8-18 on the commissure. Southern Wregon to 
Southern California. 
VY. Howellii C. & R.1.¢. 122. Glabrous throughout, short-caulescent; 
2-4 inches high: leaves 1-3, thickish about 18 lines long, with ovate out- 
line, pinnatifid, the oblong segments irregularly cuspidate-toothed and 
lobed, with revolute margins; umbel 3-6-rayed, with no involucre and 
involucels exceedingly prominent, being exactly like the leaves and form- 
ing the principal part of the foliage of the plant; rays 6-8 lines long; _pedi- 
