81 



California, at Soiioia Pass aiid abovo Mono Laki- in tJKj Siona Xovada, 

 al liiHH) to lO.OdO fi'ol altiUidi' {Brcin'r). 



r T f /^7o-ccrs zc////r. 



1'5. C. glauCUS Nutt. in Jour. Pliilail. Acatl. \ ii. 28. Leaves 

 ami peduncles clustered at the summit of a shoit (sometimes clon- 

 i^ated I caudex, more or less scabrous-puberuleiit: leaves tripinnaie, 

 the ultimate divisions crowded, linear-oblong, with revolute mar- 

 gins: peduncles at fiist short, elongating in fruit and exceeding 

 the leaves: umbels T) to 1 ."i-ras cd , with an involucre of setaceous 

 bi-acts. or none, and involucels of linear acute l)ractlets; rays 4 to 

 12 lines long; pedicels 2 to 8 lines long: fruit 2 to 3j^ lines long, 

 tiie 2 to T) carpel wings rather narrow: oil-tu])cs 3 to 5 in the 

 broad inter\als, (y to 8 on the commissural side: seed-face deepl\- 

 sulcate or involute. (Fig. 83.) 



Nevada (Watson. Vu.<te!,'), Utah (./o/fcs lO^ss., Idaho iXt'lldli). and Mon- 

 tana, headwaters of .locko River (C'nnbii 147). Fl. April. 



19. PIIELLOPTERUS Benth. Gen. Plant, i. 905.— Low 

 tomentose-villous herbs on the sands of the sea-shore, with once 

 or twice ternate or ternate-pinnate coriaceous leaves, ovate to 

 roundish more or less conHuent leaflets densely white tomentose 

 beneath, involucre and involucels of subulate bracts, and glomerate 

 whitish flowers. 



The fruit of this genus differs in no respect from that of Cymopterux, 

 and we retain it only on aeroinit of its very peculiar habit and habitat. It 

 is one of the Japanese and Corean forms which have reached our western 

 coast. 



1. P. littoralis Schmidt, Fl. Sachel. in Mem. Acad. Petrop. 

 7. 12.138. Subcaulescent: petioles elongated; leaflets callous-ser- 

 iate to dentate, with impressed veinlets above, 1 to 2 inches long: 

 umbels shorter than the leaves, 10 to 12-rayed; rays 6 to 12 

 lines long; umbellets capitate: fruit 1 to o lines in diameter, the 

 wings Ij^ lines bro;i(l. (Fig. <S4. ) — Cvn/opfcr/ts ( "' ) littoralis 

 (iray, Pac. R. Rep. xii.()2. 



Sandy sea-shores, Oregon {Howell, Htmlernun); Washington Territory 

 I Cooper), Puget Soud fWilkes" Expedition); Vancouver Island {Macoun, in 

 IssTi. Fl. June. 



The plant is said to scarcely rise above the surface of the shifting 

 sand^, the leaves lying prostrate. 



