1888. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE, 79 
May, 1882, as no. 67); Union county (Cusick 1010, in 1882 
and 1884).—This species has been referred to P. Nevadense, : oe 
as several other species have been, but always with a doubt. 
been too often collected in its early condition, before either 
fruit or leaves had matured, and in this stage has been very 
puzzling. Mature fruit of Cusick’s collecting,in Canby’s  —— 
herbarium, has enabled us to characterize it as quite a dis- 
tinct species. It belongs to that tuberous-rooted group of 
which P. farinosum and P. Cous are representatives. : 
base, an inch or two to a foot high, from an elongated com- 
paratively slender root, rough puberulent: petioles wholly 
inflated, with a very conspicuous white-scarious margin; 
leaves ternately or pinnately dissected, the ultimate segments 
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In Howell’s distribution it is labeled P. dasycarpum. It has ~ 
5 gE: 
az 
’ Peucedanum Sandbergii, n.sp. Caulescent, branching at — — 
very short linear: umbel very unequally 6 to 15-rayed, with 
in a good stock of P. farinosum and then to If. .of its 
P. Geyeri. Specimens of the latter species are very much” 
to be desired. ; tens 
_ Peueedanum nudicaule Nutt. This species was first rep ’ 
by Bradbury and Nuttall from the ‘+ high plains, on the upper 
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