and seed-face concave (the carpel section being crescentic). 
35.) — Ferula multijida Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 348v 
From S. California to British Columbia {Macoun, Dawson), eastward to 
Utah, Wyoming {Forwood), Idaho and W. Montana. FI. May and June. 
* * Pruit 'With oil-tubes and pedicels to 12 lines long\. 
3. L. Eatoni. Like the last, but wdtb less dissected leaves, 
few-rayed umbels, pedicels of fruit 4 to 6 lines long, fruit 8 or 9 
lines long, 4 or 5 lines broad, flatter and thinner than in any other 
species, oil-tubes 4 to 6 in the intervals, 4 on the commissural side, 
a prominent corky nerve on the commissural face of the lateral 
wing near the inner margin, and seed-faee plane. (Fig. 36.) 
Utah {D. a. Eaton 147, in 1869). FI. June. 
r* 
This species was collected and distributed as L- multijida, but the 
decidedly different fruit characters seem to justify its separation. 
'' 4. L. Watsoni. Foot high or less, rather stout, somewhat 
branching: leaves few and small, at or near the base, ternate-pin- 
nately decompound, the ultimate segments very small, ovate and 
cuspidate: umbel with 5 to 10 variously elongated divaricate rays, 
no involucre, and involucels of few setaceous bractlets; rays 2 to 
4 inches long; fruiting pedicels (2 to 8 or 10 in number) about 
half inch long and divaricate: fruit (immature) 6 lines long; oil- 
tubes 3 in the intervals: seed-face concave. 
Collected in Canby’s N. Transcontinental Survey, in the Wenatchie 
region, Washington Territory, altitude 4,000 feet, July, 1883 {Brandegee 
801, 'Ihneedy 848). 
5. L. purpurea. iVbout a foot high : leaves completely 
glabrous, very much dissected, the ultimate segments linear or 
filiform: umbel 8 to 20-rayed, with no involucre, and involucels of 
several linear acuminate bractlets; rays 3 or 4 inches long; flowers 
purple: fruit 9 to 12 lines long, as long as the pedicels, 5 to 6 lines 
broad, with a much more prominent corky margin and commis- 
sural ridge than in any other species: oil-tubes prominent, 3 in the 
intervals of the distinct dorsal and intermediate ribs, 4 on the com- 
missural side. (Fig. 37.) — Ferula purpurea Watson, Proc. Am. 
Acad. xxi. 453. • 
On rocky hillsides near the Columbia River in Oregon and Washington 
Territory. 
