COULTER AND ROSE—NORTH AMERICAN UMBELLIFERAE. 338 
Leaves not palmately dividec......2.2..20202.2.002222222--- 13. S. maritima, 
Leaves more or less pinnately divided. 
Stems not arising from tubers. 
Leaves with winged rachis. 
Rachis toothed; flowers purple (rarely yellow)... .. Id. S. bipinnatifida, 
Rachis entire; flowers yellow ..0...202020.02...20020... 15. S. nemoralis. 
Leaves without winged rachis, 
Leaves twice orthrice pinnate. .0.0000222222.202........ 16. S. bipinnata. 
Leaves ternate, then pinnate. 0022202222202 17. S. savratilis. 
Stems arising from tubers ......0022.022..2.......-........ 18. S. tuberosa. 
1. Sanicula marilandica L.. Sp. Pl. 1: 235. 1753. 
S. canadensis marylandica Hitchcock, Trans. St. Louis Acad. &: 497, 1891. 
Mostly simple below and umbellately branching above, 4.5 to 12 
dm. high: basal leaves 3 to 5-parted, the lateral leaflets divided nearly 
to the base, giving the appearance of a5 or T-parted leaf; the divi- 
sions mostly sharply cut and serrate, the teeth more or less mucronate 
tipped; upper leaves similar, but with shorter petioles, becoming ses- 
sile or nearly soabove; umbellate peduncles 2 to 4, nearly equal, some- 
times becoming 2 dm. long: umbe!s nearly regular, with 3 to 7 rays, 
involucre of few leaf-like or small bracts, and involucels of few small 
bractlets; sterile flowers numerous, either intermixed with the fertile 
or in separate umbellets: calyx of sterile flowers 2 mm. long, cleft 
below the middle, the lobes acute; fruit sessile, oval, 6 to 7 mm. long, 
including bristles (bulbous at base): commissural scar elliptical; seed 
face plane or slightly concave. 
Type locality. °° Marilandia, Virginia.” 
From Newfoundland to Georgia and westward to Cclorado, north- 
western Idaho, and Alberta. 
Speconens examined: Among the very numerous specimens examined we cite only 
those from well-known sets. 
NEWFOUNDLAND: Toxploits River, Rolinson & Sehrenk, August 13, 1894. 
Maine: Dover, Piscataquis County, Merial 235, June 26, 1895. 
Vermont; Manchester, Wf. Diy 353, June 29, 1898. 
Connecticut: Milford, Manes, September 13, 1893. 
GeorGIA: Augusta, WeCurthy 11, June, PSss. 
Sourn Dakora: Elk Canyon, Rydberg 731, June 29, 1892. 
CoLorRAbo: Durango, Tired 87.1, July, E896. 
Montana: Near Bozeman, Rydberg 681, July 7, 1896. 
Ipano: Lake Pend Oreille, Suadbery 763, July 28, 1892. 
ALBERTA: St. Marys River, Macoun 10653, July 22, 1895. 
2, Sanicula gregaria Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 22:354. 1895. 
Like S. marilandica, at calyx of sterile flowers | mm. long, cleft 
to the middle, the lobes obtuse; fruit sessile but stipitate, 3 mm. long 
including bristles (not bulbous at base); commissural scar linear. 
Type locality, ** Van Cortlandt Park,” New York City; collected by 
Bicknell; type in Herb. Columbia Univ. 
From New Hampshire to North Carolina, and west to Ontario, Min- 
nesota, Nebraska, and Arkansas. 
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