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^ 5. E. Californicus. Three or four feet high: leaf-divisions 
|)imiately compound; segments linear, half to an inch long, 1 to 
\]/^ lines broad, terminal one elongated (2 to 5 inches long); 
uppermost leaves simple: umbel 9 to 12-ra\^ed, with prominent in- 
volucre, and involucels of numerous scarious lanceolate long- 
acuminale bractlets H lines long; rays 2 inches long; pedicels 8 to 
10 lines long: fruit linear-oblong, 4 lines long, 1*4 lines broad; oil- 
tubes large, solitary in the intervals, 4 on the commissural side: 
sulcus of seed-face deeper than in other species, and with more 
prornent central ridge. (Fig* 126.) — Chierofhyllum (?) Califor- 
nicum Torn. Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 98. Podosciadium CaUfornicnm 
Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 846. 
California, Knight’s Ferry, Stanislaus county {Bigelow, in 185:5), Santa 
Lucia Mts. (6'. R- VaHeg 227, in 1880, distributed as Caruin Kelloggii). 
FI. May. 
Until Vasey’s collection in 1880, this species was known only fiom the 
single collection of Bigelow, in 1853. In the character of single oil-tubes in 
the intervals it differs from the other species, but so closely resembles 
them in every other detail that it cannot well be separated from them. 
88. ANTHRISCUS Hoffm. Umb. i. 88.-ResemblinL- 
& 
Chcei’ophylhim in vegetative characters. 
A. Ckuefoi-ium Hoffm. 1. c. 41. Mature fruit smooth and 
shining. (Fig. VPl.Y-^-Chcej'ophyllum sativum L. 
Naturalized in E. Pennsylvania ( ThoH. G. Porter). 
A. SYLV'ESTuis Hoffm., from Europe, has been collected on 
ballast ground by I. C. Martindale near Philadelphia, and by Ad- 
dison Brown near N. Y. City. 
A. VULGARIS Pres., from Europe, is said by Prof. Macoun to 
be introduced at Bedford, N. S. 
89. BUPLEURUM Einn. Gen. n. 828.— Annuals or peren- 
nials, with simple entire clasping or perfoliate stem-leaves, with or 
without an involucre, involucels of 5 or more ovate bractlets, and 
yellow dowers. 
The genus Bupleurum contains about 90 described species, which 
Bentham & Hooker think should be reduced to about 60. Although it is 
called by these authors “germs naturaAissimuin,” it contains the most 
diverse characters, especially in fruit structux’e, characters which are 
usually considered generic*. Our generic description applies to the only 
two species found in our llora, one introduced, and the other indigenoixs, 
