1889.] BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 279 



ack of Denver by John Kochan in Juh . 

 1889. This is the " Osha " of the Indians, who use its very 



larjjfe aromatic roots. 



t> 



■piifoli 





irock in report of Wheel 



about Twin Lakes, Colorado. 



Cceeopleurum Gmelini Ledeb. In our Revision of N. 



Am. Umbelliferas (p. 90) we ventured the opinion that thia 

 species would be found along the coast of Washington Ter- 

 ritory, and now Mr. C. V. Piper sends abundant material 

 from" near Seattle, where it grows just above high tide mark 

 or in salt marshes on the sea-shore. The specimens are very 

 stout, becoming 3 or 4 feet high, and the leaves are very 

 large, the leaflets tapering at both extremities and conspicu- 

 ously reticulate-veined, 2 to 4 inches long and 1 to 2 inches 

 broad. The rays are also sometimes nearly 3! inches long 

 and the pedicels 4 to 8 lines. The fruit is more narrowly 

 oblong than usual, averaging about i| lines in breadth by 3$ 

 lines long. The seed soon becomes very loose in the peri- 

 carp and has a distinct lunate outline in section. The " hol- 

 low ribs " of Ledebour's description appear very prominently, 

 and undoubtedlv these specimens from Puget Sound repre- 

 sent more nearlv those of Ledebour than any others we have 



seen. 



CEnanthe sarmentosa Presl., as is to be inferred from 

 the name, has a decidedly sarmentose habit. Our attention 

 has been called to it by S. B. Parish in S. California, and by 

 L. F. Henderson and E. L. Greene in Washington. Profes- 

 sor Greene describes it as follows : "The stems, though 

 lender, are erect, but after flowering there go forth from 

 among the umbels and upper axils long slender sterile 

 branches which strike root at the joints or tip.'' 



Cynosciadium pinnati m DC. Mr, F. W. Ihurow has 

 sent from Texas a large coarse form of this species 2 teet 



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Erynginm Lemmoni. Glaucous: stem erect branching 

 above, for 2 feet high: leaves rigid, from long oblanceolate 

 below to broad ovate above, all sharply dentate or pinnati- 

 rid-toothed (but not pectinate), the uppermost leaves most 

 deeply cut, teeth cuspidate-tipped : heads short-oblong (4 to 

 6 lines high), much surpassed and enveloped by the conspic- 

 uous involucre of broadlv cuneate (becoming 4 or 5 lines 

 broad) leaf-like cuspidate-toothed and -lobed bracts ; bract- 

 lets scarcelv exceeding the flowers and rather weak, the 



scarcely exceeding 



