256 UMBELLIFERyE. peucedanum. 



what concave. On open places, Brit. Columbia to California, west of the 

 Cascade Mountains. 



* * Wings of the fruit narrow and thickish oil-tubes obsolete or 

 very indistinct and numerous in the intervals: doi sal and intermedi- 

 ate ribs obsolete or nearly so. 



P. bicolor Watson But King, 129. Caulescent or scarcely so, 4-18 inches 

 .high, glabrous or slightly puberulent : petioles wholly dilated ; leaves ter- 

 nate-pinnately decompound, the ultimate segments very numerous and 

 linear: umbel very unequally 2-12-rayed, with involucels of 1-8 linear- 

 subulate bractlets ; rays 1-5 inches long; pedicels short; fruit oblong 

 glabrous, 5-6 lines long, 1-2)^ lines broad. Eastern Oregon to Nevada 

 ; and Utah. 



§ VI. Mostly tall and often stout, from long fleshy roots : leaves 

 with usually broad or elongated segments : bractlets of the involucel 

 small or none. 



* Leaves with narrowly linear more or less elongated leaflets. 



-*- Low : flowers white. 



P. Cusickii Watson Proc. Am. Acad, xxi, 453. Caulescent, 2-5 inches 

 ihigh, from a thick elongated root : leaves 1-2-ternate, the segments with 

 3-5 linear acute lobes, 3-12 lines long: umbel with 1-3 short fertile rays 

 and involucels of narrow acuminate bractlets which are distinct or more 

 or less united pedicels very short: fruit oblong-elliptical, 4-5 lines lcng 

 tthe thin wings as broad as the body or narrower : oil-tubes 1-3 in the in- 

 tervals, 4 or 6 on the commissure : seed-face concave. On the highest 

 summits of Eagle Creek Mountains, Union county, Oregon. 



+- +- Taller: flowers yellow. 



P. simplex Nutt. Watson Bot. King. 129. Caulescent, 6-18 inches 

 fhigh, puberulent: leaves ternate or biternate; leaflets from almost filiform 

 ito linear-lanceolate, 2-4 inches long: umbel unequally 3-15-rayed, with 

 involucels of lanceolate or setaceous bractlets ; rays %-3 inches long : ped- 

 icels 1-3 lines long : fruit broadly oblong to nearly orbicular, sometimes 

 emarginate at each end, 3-6 lines long, 2-5 lines broad, with wings broader 

 than the body and prominent dorsal and intermediate ribs : oil-tubes large 

 and solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissure : seed-face slightly con- 

 cave. Eastern Washington to California, Idaho and Montana. 



P. triternatum Nutt. T. .& G. Fl. i, 626. Caulescent 1-3 feet high, 

 irom a deep-seated elongated fusiform root : 1 saves biternate or triternate : 

 leaflets from narrowly linear to linear-lanceolate, 2-4 inches long : umbel 

 unequally 5-18-rayed, with involucels of lanceolate or setaceous bractlets; 

 rays 3^-3 inches long; pedicels a line or more long: fruit narrowly oblong, 

 glabrous 3-6 lines long l%-2 lines broad with narrow wings, and some- 

 what prominent dorsal and intermediate ribs : oil-tubes very large and 

 broad, solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissure. Brit Columbia to 

 California, very variable. 



Yar. macrocarpum C. & R. Rev. Umh. 70. A more robust form 

 -with broader leaflets, longer rays and fruit 6-8 lines long. About Bood 

 River, Oregon. 



Var. brevifolium C. & R. 1. c. Stout 6-18 inches high, rough-puber- 

 ■ulent with more compact leaves, stout inflated petioles, and shorter and 

 broader often toothed leaflets. On the high hills opposite The Dalles. 



Var. ;i lain m C. & R. 1. c. Leaves with very narrowly linear and 

 elongated segments fruit 5-6 lines long with broader wings. Eastern 

 vOjegon to California. 



