1895.] Briefer Articles. 373 
Collected by Mr. C. G. Pringle, on the Sierra de San Felipe, alti- 
tude, 7,500 to 10,000, May 28, 1894,and August 3, 1894, no. 4,663; an 
by E. W. Nelson, on the Sierra de San Felipe, at an altitude of 10,000 
to 11,000", September 20 to 30, 1894, no. 1,087. 
Deanea tuberosa n. sp.—Shortly caulescent, 5 to 7.2% high, from a 
globose tuber: leaves twice pinnate; leaflets sharply toothed or cleft 
into linear segments, slightly scabrous beneath: peduncle 2 to 3™ 
long: rays five to eight, unequal, 1.2 to 5° long; pedicels 2™ long: 
fruit about 6™"in diameter; wings thin, about as broad as body; oil 
tubes one to three in the intervals, six to ten on the commissural side. 
Collected by Mr. C. G. Pringle in low meadows, valley of Toluca, 
Mexico, Oct. 3, 1892, no. 4,295. This plant was distributed by Mr. 
Pringle as a Rhodosciadium—Joun M. CoutTer and J. N. Rose, Lake 
Forest and Washington. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXVII.—Fig. 1, flowering specimen; fig. 
2, fruiting umbel; fig. 3, dorsal view of rearpele; fig. 4, cross section of 
e same; figs. 3 and 4s dota’ enla 
The pignnts.—There is some question as to the exact distribution 
of the common pignut (Carya porcina or Hicorta glabra) and the 
related Carya or Hicoria microcarpa, and the undersigned will be 
grateful for herbarium specimens and especially nuts with their husks, 
representing both. In the recently published seventh volume of Pro- 
fessor Sargent’s Silva, the range of g/adra is given as southern Maine 
to southern Ontario, through Michigan to southeastern Nebraska, 
southward to the shores of the Indian River and Peace Creek in Flor- 
ida, and to southern Alabama and Mississippi, through Missouri and 
Arkansas to eastern Kansas and the Indian Territory, and to the val- 
ley of the Nueces River in Texas. . microcarpa (treated in the Silva 
as a variety of g/aéra, under the varietal name odora/a) is said to occur 
in eastern Massachusetts, Connecticut, eastern and central New York, 
eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, the District of Columbia, central 
Michigan, southern Indiana and Illinois, and Missouri—WILLIaAM 
TRELEASE, Sf, Louis, Mo. 
