134 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ June, 
the margin.—Swamps near Coban, Alta Vera Paz, alt. 4,300 
feet, September, 1885. (Pl.Guat.Tuerck.,a I. D. S.edit., 704.) 
NEPHRODIUM FENDLERI, Hook., var. PAUCIPINNATUM.— 
Rhizome short, thick, erect; scales matted, blackish, 
lanceolate, 4-5 lines long, cells punctiform; rootlets with 
a heavy brown tomentum: stipes few in the crown, scaly at 
base, smooth, stramineous, 2 feet long, thick as a crow’s 
quill: frond about as long as stipe, quite smooth throughout, 
minutely bullate-punctate ; pinnae 8-14, not in pairs, 8-10 
inches long, 15-20 lines broad, terminal one distinct and not 
larger than the lateral, caudate entire apex 2 inches long, 
cut almost half-way to the rachis into 20-24 lobes ; veinlets 
_10-12-jugate, only two or three from adjoining groups unit- 
ing at or below the sinus: sori on each veinlet, those above 
the sinus marginal ; indusium pallid, not corrugate, reniform, 
center depressed, sinus open.—Prof. Eaton has examine 
this fern, and advises that it comes very close to his Aspadinm 
that respect as well as others the numerous specimens are 
uniform.—Rock-crevices in Petet, near Coban, alt. 4,300 
feet, September, 1885; copses, Pansamala, alt. 3,800 feet, 
July, 1886. (Pl. Guat. Tuerck., a I. D.S. edit., 767, 667) 
Notes on Umbellifere of E. United States. V. 
JOHN M. COULTER AND J. N. ROSE, 
(WITH PLATE V.) 
[In addition to the collections mentioned in the April GazeTre, we have 
1 ow to add those belonging to Brown Universit of. W. W. Bailey has 
thas kindly put at our disposal, not only his own large collection of Umbelli- 
tere, but also those of Olney and Bennett.] 
THASPIUM Nutt.—Fruit ovoid to oblong, slightly flat: 
tened dorsally : carpel with 5 primary ribs, 3 or 4 or all of 
them strongly winged : oil-ducts solitary in the intervals, WO 
on the commissural side: seed-section round or somewhat 
es me indented beneath the oil-ducts: ea 
jum wanting ; styles long (figs. «y-62).—-Perennials (2 t0$ . 
ft. high), with ternately divided even ‘a broad serrate OF 
toothed leaflets (or lower leaves simple), mostly yellow flow- 
ers, and all the fruit pedicelled.--The species of Thaspium ie 
in great confusion. In Gray’s Manual 7. aureum Nutt. and 
