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long, with very prominent stylopodium, and styles about the same 
length: seed sulcate beneath the large oil-tubes. 
Central California, near the coast {Brewer, Bolander, KcAltxjn, Palmer 
15(5 and distributed as C. Gairdneri, etc.) 
The Fremont specimen referred to by Dr. Gray in the original de- 
scription of this species is Eulophuf^ Prineflei, and this specimen some- 
what affects the whole description. This species is very scarce in herbaria. 
4. C. Howellii. vStem 3 to 3^4 f^ct high, from a fascicle 
of thickened fibres: leaves few, ternate, then once or twice pin- 
nate; leaflets lanceolate to ovate, strongly toothed or lobed: umbels 
many-rayed (about 25), with involucre of long narrowly oblanceo- 
late bracts (becoming reflexed), and involucels of prominent 
lanceolate scarious-margined bractlets; rays about inches long; 
pedicels 3 lines long: fruit (immature) with very prominent stylo- 
l)odium longer than the styles: oil-tubes very large. 
Grant’s Pass, Oregon, July 13, 1887 {Howell 710, distributed as C, 
Kelloggii ?). 
C. Carui L., the common garden caraway from Europe, 
has become naturalized in many places, especially in the north and 
northwest. It may be recognized by its pinnately compound 
leaves with Aliform divisions. 
51. CICUTA Linn. Gen. n. 354. — Smooth poisonous marsh 
perennials, with pinnately compound leaves and serrate leaflets, 
involucre of few bracts or none, involucels of several slender bract- 
lets, and white flowers. 
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1. C. virosa L. Spec. 255. Stout, 2 to 6 feet high: leaves 
twice'or thrice pinnate, the lower on long petioles; leaflets nar- 
rowly lanceolate, 1 to 2 inches long, acuminate, coarsely serrate, 
with the veinlets commonly running to the sinuses: umbel many- 
rayed, with involucre mostly wanting, and involucels of few nar- 
row lanceolate bractlets; rays 1 to 3 inches long ; pedicels 2 to 4 
lines long: fruit broadly ovate to oval, 1 to lines long, with 
lateral ribs much larger than the others: oil-tubes broad and con- 
spicuous, the commissural pair contiguous: seed nearly terete 
(Fig. 152.) 
' Quite common in marshes from the Saskatchewan region and Hudson 
Bay {Burke), to the western coast, and northward (Lyall, Bourgeau, 
Macoun). FI. summer. 
