New species of cicuTa. 239 



the middle, of rhombic-ovate outline, the leaflets large, few 

 and rather remote, 31 in number, in five primary pinnae, the 

 first and second being compound, each of 10 leaflets, the third 

 compound and of 6 leaflets, the fourth and fifth simple, each 

 being of a pair of large subsessile leaflets ; terminal leaflets 

 exactly ovate, acute, obtuse at base, about ZVi inches long ex- 

 clusive of the petiolule, strongly but not at all deeply serrate, 

 the teeth short and broad, but mucronately acute, lateral leaf- 

 lets somewhat smaller, quite tapering to the short stout petio- 

 lule, but the tapering inequilateral : upper part of stem 

 remarkably stout and somewhat fistulous, bearing 3 large 

 umbels, the pedicels likewise very stout and rigid : fruits sub- 

 orbicular but distinctly broader than high ; corky ribs promi- 

 nent, in cross section narrowly oval, the laterals of about four 

 times the dimensions of the dorsal. 



Eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada of California, in Mono 

 County, collected very long ago by Bolander, and, if distrib- 

 uted by him at all, probably under the name of C. maculata ; 

 indeed this is " C. maculata ' ' of the Botany of the State Sur- 

 vey, at least as to the plant from Mono Pass ; the southern 

 plant so referred being very likely my C.Jrondosa. The fruits 

 of C. valida are small for so large a plant, and are not very 

 satisfactorily designated as suborbicular. They might almost 

 as well be described as transversely short-oval. The species 

 is particularly well marked in character. I do not know how 

 it came to escape the notice of Messrs. Coulter and Rose. 



CicuTA SoNNEi. Plant 3 to 5 feet high and not stout, 

 with subterranean parts much as in C. occidentalis , i. e. of 

 large fusiform roots, but stems purplish and glaucous, re- 

 motely leafy and the foliage small ; basal leaves smallest of 

 all, only 4 to 6 inches long, the middle cauline twice as large, 

 all consisting of about 29 leaflets each, 1 to 1/^ inches long, 

 lance-elliptic, very acute at both ends and remotely and slightly 

 serrate-toothed except at the cuneately tapering base, those of 

 the small basal leaves broader, shorter and at base obtuse : 

 umbels few : fruits small, the corky wings low, very broad, 



