92 
Var. Leibergi. A taller, more slender form, a foot or more 
hig’h, with petioles correspondingly elongated. 
Sandhills in the Bitteroot Mountains, Idaho, June, 1887 (J. B. Leiberg)' 
This is not only a much taller plant than the species, but it blooms 
considerably later, and mature fruit may reveal specific characters. 
26. CRANTZIA Nutt. Genera, i, 178. — Small glabrous 
perennials, creeping and rooting in the mud, with leaves reduced 
to hollow cylindrical or awl-sl'.aped petioles (jointed by transverse 
j^artitions), minute involucral bracts, and simple few-flowered 
umbels of white flowers. 
1. C- lineata Nutt. 1. c. Leaves very obtuse, 1 to 3 inches 
long (sometimes nearly a foot), 1 to 2 lines broad: fruit a line 
long, the thick lateral wings forming a corky margin. (Fig. .99). 
In brackish marshes along the Atlantic coast from Massachusetts to 
Mississippi; oh the Pacific coast, Oregon {Hall 205, Meehan), Washington 
Tevritoiy {Henderson 4081, Puget Sound { Wilkes’ A7a;ped.), Vancouver Is- 
land {Macoun); also from Santa Cruz Valley, Arizona {Pringle, Lemmon). 
The Arizona specimens are somewhat peculiar, Pringle’s having un- 
usually elongated filiform leaves, and Lemmon’s having leaves of ordinary 
width, but in some casas 0 inches to a foot long. 
27. QiNANTHE Linn. Gen. n. 352. — Mostly aquatic gla- 
brous herbs, with succulent stems, pinnate or decompound leaves, 
and usually involucrate umbels of white flowers. 
L CE. sarmentosa Presl. DC. Prodr. iv. 138. Succulent 
stems 2 to 5 feet high: leaves ternate and bipinnate; leaflets ovate, 
acuminate, toothed, often lobed at base, 6 to 12 lines long: umbels 
many-rayed, with involucre of a few linear bracts or none, and in- 
volucels of similar more numerous bractlets; rays an inch long or 
less; pedicels numerous, short: fruit about 2dines long, with com- 
missural face (as well as ribs) very corky. (Fig. 100.) 
California {Lemmon), through Oregon and Washington Territory, to 
British Columbia (AfeeAaa, Afaconn). FI. June to August. • 
i/ -Var. Galifornica. W ith usually larger, more approximate 
acute or acutish leaflets.^ CE".- Watson, Proc. Am, 
Acad. xi. 139. - 
With the last in the southern pai’t of its range, but extending south- 
ward in California to San Diego county. 
We can discover no good specific characters in (E. Californica Watson. 
