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<*). L. Californica Null. Ton-. cK: Cjiay, Fl. i. (W^o. About 

 2 feet high, with 1 or 2 stem leaves: leaves teniatc aiul pinnate or 

 twice ternate; leaflets cune;.te-ol)ovate, 1 to 'i inches loiiji^, usually 

 8-lobe(l, coarseh' toothed ahcne: umbel IT) to 2()-rayc(l, with in- 

 volucre of 1 or 2 p.arrow bracts or none, and no involucels; rays 2 

 to 4 inches lon<2^; pedicels 2 to 4 lines lon^^: fruit •"') to 7 lines long, 

 ;} to 4 lines broad, with a thinner margin than in any other species; 

 dorsal ami intermediate rit)s indistinct: oil-tubes 8 or 4 in the in- 

 tervals, (') on the commissural side. (t^ig. 38.) — Ferula Cali- 

 fornica (jra\-, Proc. \\w. .Vcad. \ii. 84S. 



From Kern county, California {Parish l!)-ll), tiu-ougli the state to 

 Oregon (Howell, Hendcmon). Fi. May. 



7. L. anomala. .Vcaulescent, glabrous, with slender scape 

 ((> to 12 inches high) bearing an unequally 8 to ()-rayed umbel : 

 leaves slender petioled, pinnate with few distant very narrowly 

 linear divisions: umbel with no involucre, and in.volucels of promi- 

 nent scarious-margined veiny bractlets more or less united ; rays 

 1 to 3 inches long; pedicels hardly a line long: fruit small, oblong, 

 in nearly sessile clusters of 2 to 8, 4 lines long, about 2 lines broad, 

 the lateral ribs considerably thicker than the body, the dorsal and 

 intermediates very slender filiform to obsolete, occasionally with 

 minute calvx-tecth: oil-tubes none: tiie commissural ridge small or 

 idmost w^anting. (Fig. 8*J.) 



Carljondale, California, May, issii (J/. K. Citrnni). 



This curious species is really anomalous, combining in a certain way 

 the ehaiaeters of several genera. Its fruit characters are prominently 

 those of Lpptolivniu, its whole general habit approaches certain species of 

 Pcuveihiiutin, and its oc. asional calyx-teeth look towards Poli/ldiiid. 



K). PEUCEDAXL'M Linn. (ien. n. 889. Short caules- 

 cent or acaulesccnt dry ground perennials, with fusiform or tuber- 

 ous roots, ternate or pinnate to dissected leaves, no involucre, in- 

 volucels mostly present, and yellow (sometimes white) llowers. 



Our largest and by far the most didiculL genus, with ill-defined boun- 

 daries in some directiouB. Our North American species, all western, form 

 a group different in some rcspeets from foreign representatives of the 

 genus, but not distinct enough to justify separation, without a critical 

 study of the immense display of foreign forms. 



