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Top of fruit thickened by the converging ribs, but stylopodium 

 absent or much depressed. Seed-face plane, the back rounded. 



Pseudotaenidia montana sp. nov. 



Plant 4-8 dm. high, entirely glabrous : stems striate : leaves 

 several, the blades two or three times ternately compound ; the 

 segments entire, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, oval, or oblanceo- 

 late, glaucous and strongly veined beneath, sessile or stalked, 

 10-30 mm. long, 6-20 mm. wide, mucronate, often inequilateral 

 at base ; petioles dilated at base, striate and clasping the stem : 

 peduncles 6—20 cm. long; rays of umbels 8—12, 1—5 cm. long; 

 rays of umbellets usually slightly more numerous, 3—7 mm. 

 long : fruit 5-6 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, the lateral ribs 1 mm. 

 wide. 



The plant exactly resembles Taenidia ihtegerrima (L.) Drude 

 in everything except the fruit. 



Type collected by myself on Kate's Mountain, White Sulphur 

 Springs, West Virginia, August 29, 1903, in dry open woods on 

 the mountain-side in a clayey soil intermixed with loose rocks ; 

 'Taenidia integerrima grows in similar situations on the same 

 mountain, but so far as I saw in separate patches. Both plants 

 were rather common. The only other specimen of this plant 

 seen by me is in the Herbarium of the New York Botanical 

 Garden and was collected by E. S. Steele, on Aug. 20, 1901, near 

 Luray Cavern, Virginia. Type specimens are deposited in my 

 herbarium and in the herbarium of the New York Botanical 

 Garden. 



This genus has many of the fruit characteristics of Oxypolis 

 or Pastinaca and technically probably belongs near them. A 

 reference to them or their allies, however, is forbidden by the 

 leaf-characters of this genus, as well as by several fruit-charac- 

 ters. In fact, a reference to either of these genera or their allies 

 would be about as satisfactory as was the reference of Taenidia 

 integerrima (L.) Drude to Zizia Koch or Pimpinella L. 



In conclusion, I wish to thank Dr. N. L. Britton, who has 

 gone over this plant with me, and I am glad to say agrees with 

 my conclusions. 



