[1889. BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 283 



it is proved constant for that species, and a character in com- 

 mon with the other species, and also supported by other char- 

 acters, we can not consider it a sufficient reason for separating 



genera. 



Carum Kei.loggii Gray. The recorded range of this 

 supposed rare species has been increased by its discovery in 

 abundance in Tuolumne county, California, August, 1889 

 (Lemmon 72-74), thus extending it throughout the ^central 

 part of the state, where it is known as " wild anise." Pro- 

 fessor E. L. Greene thinks its scarcity in herbaria is due more 

 to its late blooming and fruiting than to its actual rarity. We 

 also have it from Mr. Lemmon from the "Oakland Hills. 

 Some of the Tuolumne specimens showed plants 5 feet high. 



Carum Oreganum Watson was also collected in good 

 fruit bv Mr. Lemmon in Siskiyou county, California, June, 



1889. 



Carum Gairdneri Benth. & Hook, we have not yet seen 

 from S. California, and would ask collectors to note whether 

 the specimens reported from that region are not really Jiu- 

 fo-phus Paris/lit. 



•■ Carum Lemmoni. Resembling C. Oreganum except in the 



fruit, which is oblong, I* lines long and a line wide, with 

 prominent calyx-teeth concealing the small stvlopodium, and 

 broad low ribs each containing a small group of strengthen- 

 ing cells. _ • , T 



« Tuolumne forest," California, August 1889, (Lemmon 



The small stvlopodium and the presence of strengthen- 

 ing cells are characters unknown among our other H^cies 

 of Carum. In dried specimens the fruit ribs look sharp and 

 prominent, but this is explained bv the collapsed condition ot 

 the large intervening oil-tubes. After soaking, the oil-tttDes 

 become plump, and die ribs are then seen to be broad and 



Calyx-teeth prominent. 



Carpel with broad 



low. 



Fr 



s 



'rait oblong, glabrous, flattened laterally. Carpel witnoroaa 

 client ribs, each tipped with a large group of streng thening 



cells. Stvlopodium prominent and conical. Ori-tato Wli- 

 tan in the intervals, very large. 2 on the commissural s e, 



and a small accessory one beneath each group of ^engthen- 

 ing cells. Seed dorsallv flattened, silicate beneath , the 1 oil- 



tubes, becoming loose "in the pericarp and invested b a 



layer of secreting cells, the face plane or ^what concave.-- 



Smooth, erect herbs, from a fascicle ot thickened l.bres, with 



