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Specimens examined.— Mississippi : Biloxi, Tracy, 4469, 1898.— America 

 BOREALi: Bernhardi Herbarium. — Texas: Columbia, J?u«A, 6, 1899; same 

 locality. Bush, 112, 328, 463, 1900; Hempstead, Hall, 260, 1872, in part. This 

 has two specimens, the smaller whole plant is C. dasycarpum, the other is 

 a branch of a nearly smooth larger plant of C. Tainturieri; Dallas, Jiever- 

 chon, 2618, 1901; New Braunfels, Lindheimer, 616, 1848; Brazos Bottom, 

 Lindheimer, 1839; Crab Apple, Jermy; Enchanted Rock, Jermy; Neuces Bay, 

 Heller, 1521, 1894; no locality given, Lindheimer, 1847. 



5. Chaerophyllum Tainturieri Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 



1:47. 1835. 



Chaerophyllum procumbens Tainturieri C. & R. Bot. Gaz. 12:160. 1887. 



An erect tall plant, commonly pubescent, sometimes smooth 

 or smoothish but with the foliage always more or less 

 pubescent or puberulous, fruiting umbels more compact, of 6 

 to 8 fruits, either sessile or the outer on short stout erect or 

 somewhat spreading pedicels sometimes reaching 6 mm. in 

 length ; fruit linear-oblong, 6-7 mm. long, with a distinct beak, 

 glabrous, the beak about one-third the length of the body, 

 the base obtuse and as wide as the widest part of the fruit; 

 ribs very prominent, about as wide as the intervals or broader, 

 but not obliterating them ; styles longer than in O. procumbens ; 

 seed face less deeply sulcate ; involucres spreading. Sandy soil 

 at mostly low elevations. March to June. 



Type locality: ** N. Orl. " (New Orleans); collected by 

 M. Tainturier. 



Carolinian, Louisianian and Lower Sonoran areas. Ala- 

 bama, Arkansas, Florida, Indian Territory, Louisiana, Mis- 

 sissippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. 



Specimens examined. — Alabama: Auburn, Lee and Baker, May 16, 

 1897. — Arkansas: Little Mamelle Bottom, Engelmann, 1837. — Florida: 

 Jacksonville, Curtiss, 1039, in part, April. This sheet contains 

 two plants, the smaller pubescent plant is C. Tainturieri and the 

 larger smooth plant is C. Floridanum. A sheet of the same No. 

 1039, in the Redfleld Herbarium, has two small pubescent plants 

 of C. Tainturieri and one large nearly smooth plant of C. Flori- 

 danum; Apalachicola, Chapman, three plants on one sheet, two evi- 

 dently of same collection, and one of another later collection, in Chapman 

 Herbarium; no locality, but presumably Apalachicola, Chapman, in Buck- 

 ley Herbarium; no locality, but presumably Apalachicola, Chapman, in 

 Parker Herbarium. — Indian Territory: Sapulpa, Bush, 1020, May 29, 1895; 

 same locality, Bush, 1083, May 13, 1895. — Louisiana: Lake Ponchartrain, 

 Lindheimer, 1839; Baton Rouge, Dodson, 1896; New Orleans, Jbor, April 1887, 

 in Joor Herbarium. — Mississippi: Starkville, Tracy, 1350, April 9, 1832. — 



