266 UMBELLIFER^E. -. Angelica. 



oblique at base, 2 to 4 inches long, the lower sometimes lobed, unequally serrate 

 with acutish teeth : umbels naked, often dense, the rays 1 to 3 inches long : fruit 

 broad-elliptical, 3 lines long by 2 to 2J broad, the lateral wings thin and the dorsal 

 acutish : seed thin, flat on the face, the solitary oil-tubes in channels on the back. 

 Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 141. 



In the Coast Ranges, from San Francisco to Mendocino County. 



3. A. lineariloba, Gray. Glabrous, stout, 2 or 3 feet high : leaves twice to 

 thrice quinate, the leaflets linear, 1 or 2 inches long, cuspidately acuminate, entire 

 or the lower ones 3-parted with the decurrent sometimes coarsely toothed lobes 

 divaricate : umbels naked, the rays an inch or two long : fruit smooth, 4 lines long 

 by two wide ; lateral wings a little narrower than the seed, rather corky : oil-tubes 

 solitary, the lateral in pairs : seed nearly flat on the face, channelled under the dorsal 

 oil-tubes. Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 347. 



Mono Pass (Bolander) ; in the Southern Sierra Nevada, Rothrock. The thick root is said not 

 to be sweet-scented. 



21. CYMOPTERUS, Raf. 



Calyx-teeth prominent or often small or obsolete. Stylopodium depressed. Fruit 

 ovate or elliptical, obtuse or retuse, dorsally flattened, the lateral ribs and some or 

 all of the dorsal ones expanded into more or less thickened and corky wings ; oil- 

 tubes narrow, one to several in the intervals. Seed dorsally flattened, and more or 

 less concave on the face. Carpophore 2-parted. Perennials, mostly low and often 

 cespitose, with a thickened root ; leaves pinnately and finely decompound, with 

 small narrow segments ; umbels usually both involucrate and involucellate, few- 

 rayed ; flowers white or yellow. 



Natives of Western North America, about 15 species, most of them confined to the region 

 between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada. The roots are extensively used by the 

 Indians for food. 



* Shortly caulescent : flowers yellow. 



1. C. terebinthinus, Torr. & Gray.' Erect, 6 to 18 inches high, smooth, leafy 

 at base : leaves rather rigid, thrice pinnate ; leaflets a line long or less, linear-oblong, 

 acute, entire or 1 - 2-toothed : fertile rays 4 to 6, unequal, \ to 2 inches long ; invo- 

 lucre a single linear leaflet or wanting, the involucels of several short linear bracts ; 

 pedicels 1 to 2 lines long : fruit 3 or 4 lines long, 2 or 3 broad, the rather thin 

 corky ribs a line broad ; calyx-teeth evident : oil-tubes 2 to 4 in the intervals, 4 to 

 10 on the commissure: carpophore persistent. Fl. i. 624. Selinum terebinthinum, 

 Hook. Fl. i. 266, t. 95. C. foeniculaceus, C. albiflorus, & C. thapsoides, JS T utt. in 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 624. 



One of the most widely distributed of the species, ranging from the Cascade Mountains in 

 Washington Territory to Ebbett's Pass (Brewer, at 9,000 feet alt.), and the Yosemite Valley 

 (Gray], and in the mountains eastward to Colorado. As in other species the number of developed 

 dorsal wings is variable. 



* * Acaulescent or nearly so : flowers white. 

 -f- Not alpine. 



2. C. montanus, Nutt. Nearly acaulescent : leaves clustered at the summit of 

 the very short stem, smooth and glaucous, pinnate or bipinnate, the oblong seg- 

 ments pinnatifid with oblong obtuse entire or toothed lobes : peduncles 1 to 4 

 inches high, rather stout : involucre and involucels of broad and membranaceous 

 bracts, united at base, the involucre often short and cup-like : rays about half an 

 inch long or less ; pedicels a line or two long : fruit 3 to 6 lines long, with thin flat 

 wings 1 or 2 lines broad ; calyx-teeth small ; oil-tubes 3 in the intervals, 6 to 8 on 



