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7)0. CAR I'M Limi. Gen, n. 3(')5. — Smooth erect slender 

 herbs, with tuberous or fusiform fascicled roots, pinnate leaves 

 with few linear leaflets, involucre r.nd involucels of few to many 

 bracts, and white flowers. 



Our American species form tlie sei tion Kdosmia Bontli. it Hook, (ex- 

 (Opliiig C. Hoinllii). The roots are used as an article of food among the 

 Indians. 



1. C. Gairdneri JJenth. A: Hook. Gen. Plant, i. 891. Stem 

 ] to { feet hi^h, ivom fascicled tuberous or fusiform roots: leaves 

 few, usually simply pinnate, with 8 to 7 linear (sometimes almost 

 filiform) leaflets 2 to 6 inches long (the lower rarely pinnate); 

 upper leaves usually simple: umbels () to 15-rayed, with involucre 

 of several bracts or none, and involucels of linear acuminate bract- 

 lets; rays about li,2 inches long: fruit ovate, small, ^ to 1 line 

 long, with long styles: seed terete. (Fig. 150.) — Edcsniia Gaird- 

 neri Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 612. 



From S. California to British Columbia, and eastward to Utah, Wyom- 

 ing and Montana. Very common on Vancouver Inland (Muccyun). Fl. June 

 and July. 



Var. latifolium (iray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 844. Leaflets 

 broader, linear-lanceolate, about i^ inch broad. 



California, Ebbett's Pass (Brewer), Yosemite (Bolandir); Ne\ada, near 

 Carson City [C. L. Aiiilcn^oin. 



2. C. Oreganum Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. xx. 368. 

 Closely resembling the preceding, but with lower leaves more 

 divided, with shorter linear lobes: fruit oblong, larger, 1^4 to 2 

 lines long, with long styles: seed flattened dorsally, sulcate beneath 

 the oil-tubes, and slightly concave on the face, with central longi- 

 tudinal ridge. (Fig. 151.) — Edosmia Oreganum Xutt. in herb. 



California, Siskiyou Co. {(ireene); Nevada, East Humboldt Mts. (Wal- 

 .soit 442, in part); Oregon (Hull 203), "Wappatoo Island" (A'(///«?0> Union 

 Co. (Cuttick); Vancouver Island and N. W. Territory (Mucoiiti, in ls87i. 



This has been nuich confused by collectors with specimens of Eulophus 

 (Pof?f>.s(ua/ (■»»!.), especially h'. Bohitulcri; hence this species is very scarce 

 in herbaria. 



3. C. Kelloggii Gra\ , Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 344. Resemb- 

 ling C. Gairdneri., but somewhat stout, from a fascicle of thick- 

 ened fibers, with lower le:ives ternate or biternate with pinnate 

 divisions and linear segments: in\-olucre and iinolucels more prom- 

 inent and ratlic)- scarious: fruit lai-gev, oblong, 1 j/< to 2^4 lines 



