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This species has the most strongiy iateraliy flattened carpels in the 
genus. 
'^ 5. V. Howellii. Glabrous throughout, short caulescent, 2 
or 3 inches high: leaves 1 or 2, thickish, about inches long, 
with ovate outline, pinnatifid, the oblong segments irregularly cus- 
pidate-toothed and lobed, with revolute margins: umbel 3 to 6- 
rayed (sometimes with 1 or 2 sessile umbellets), wdth no involucre, 
and involucels exceedingly prominent, being exactly like the 
leaves and forming the principal part of the foliage of the plant ; 
rays 6 to 8 lines long; pedicels about a line long: calyx-teeth 
prominent: fruit (immature) oblong, glabrous, a line long: oil- 
tubes several in the intervals. 
Alpine, top of Siskiyou mountains, Oregon, July 20, 1887 {Howell 711). 
This interesting alpine Velma closely resembles V. Parishii 0. & li. 
in foliage. Its dwarf habit and remarkable involucels well characterize it. 
6. V. vestita. Acaulescent, 2 to 4 inches high, densely 
clothed throughout with white soft spreading hairs: leaves pin- 
nately compound, with numerous crowded confluent oblong seg- 
ments: umbel 10 to 15-rayed, with no involucre, and involucels of 
numerous lanceolate bractlets; rays 4 to 8 lines long; fruit 
sessile or nearly so, the sterile pedicels 6 to 9 lines long: fruit 
ovate-oblong, pubescent, 2 to 2i4 lines long, lines broad, with 
inconspicuous ribs: oil-tubes 3 to 4 in the intervals, 3 on the com- 
missural side. (Fig. 140 .) — Deweya vest-ita Watson, Proc. Am. 
Acad. xvii. 373. Arracacia vestita Watson, 1. c. xxii. 415. 
California, San Bernardino mountains (S'. B. W. F. Parish), Long 
Meadow, Tulare county, 8-9000 feet alt. (Dr. E. Palmer, July, 1888). 
43. MUSENIOPSIS. — Glabrous perennials, from thick 
elongated roots, with radical pinnate leaves, no involucre, involu- 
cels of few small bractlets, and yellow flowers. — -Based upon 
'rauschia (Mi/seuiopsis) Texana Gray, PI. Lindh. ii. 211. 
The fact that this can be made an outlying member of several genera 
and a satisfactory member of none suggests the propriety of isolating it 
and thus making more consistent generic groupings. It brings trouble into 
every genus under which it can be placed, and thus seems to prove its 
right to generic independence. First placed under Tauschia hy Gray, it 
differs from that genus chiefly in its numerous small oil-tubes, instead of 
solitary large ones, and in not having an involute seed-face. Eeferred to 
Eulophus by Bentham & Hooker, its deeply and narrowly sulcate seed- 
face at once contradicts the broad and shallow sulcus of that genus, to say 
