36 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
6. Sanicula menziesii Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey 142. 1832. 
Sanicula nudicaulis Hook & Arn. Bot. Beechey 347. | 1840. 
Stem solitary, erect, 3 to 10.5 dm. high, branching; leaves round: 
cordate, 5 to 10 cm. broad, very deeply 8 to 5-lobed, the broad seg- 
ments sharply toothed or somewhat cleft, the teeth bristle-tipped; 
upper leaves more narrowly lobed and laciniately toothed; umbel with 
3 or + slender rays, involucre of 2 or 5 small leaf-like bracts, and invo- 
lucels of 6 to 8 small entire bractlets; flowers vellow, the sterile ones 
short-pediceled; fruit sessile, but distinctly stipitate, obovate, 2 to 4 
mm. long, covered with strong bristles; seed face sulcate. 
Type locality not given; but collected by Menzies on the ** North- 
west coast of America,” according to Hooker. 
From southern California to Vancouver Island and the coast of 
British Columbia. 
Specimens examined: 
CaLmornta: Douglas, in 1833; Bigelow, in 1853-54; Bolander, in 1866; San Fran- 
cisco, Kellogg & Harford 301, April 80, 1868; Berkeley, G. R. Vasey, May 19, 
1875; San Luis Obispo, Jones 2735, May 9, 1882; Berkeley, Greene, May 20, 
1889; San Diego County, Oreult, May, 1889; Los Angeles, //usse, May, 
1892; San Bernardino Mountains, altitude 500 to 750 meters, Parish 3480, 
4166, in 1894 and 1896; Little Chico Creek, Mrs. A.M. Ausiin, May, 1896; 
Amador County, Hansen 75, April 29, 1898, and 1451, 1559, 1655, April 
and May, 1896; Santa Catalina Island, Blanche Trask, June, 1897; near San 
Bernardino, Leiherg 8322, April 25, 1898; Mendocino county, Brown 825, 
June, 1898. 
Wasnuineron: Columbia River, Klickitat County, Sudsdorj, May 6-25, 1885; 
Seattle, Piper 643, May 29, 1889; Thurston and King counties, //enderson, 
June, 1892. 
Brivis ConumBra: Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, Macoun, June 9, 1887. 
Professor Greene prepared the following note when at Kew in November, 1894. 
“Sanicula nudicaulis a miserable specimen of S. menziesii with stout main stem broken 
off and thrown away to save space; two abnormal scapiform subbasal branches, with 
each a pair of opposite leaves subtending condensed and abnormal inflorescence. 
Hooker did not compare it with /aciiiata, but mounted it on the same sheet with 
menziesii, Where it belongs.’’ 
7. Sanicula arguta Greene, sp. nov. in herb, 
Stems more or less branching, 1.5 to 4.5 dm. high, froma thickened 
rootstock; leaves palmately 5-parted, the middle division elongated 
and distant, all the divisions more or less pinnately lobed and toothed, 
decurrent upon the rachis, forming a broad toothed wing; teeth spin- 
osely pointed; umbel 8 to 5-rayed, with involucre of leaf-like bracts, 
and involucels of linear to linear-lanceolate spinosely pointed bract- 
lets; flowers yellow, the sterile ones on pedicels 3 to 4mm. long; fruit 
obovate, tapering into a stipitate base, somewhat naked below, more 
bristly above, 6 mm. long. 
Type locality, hills near San Diego, California; collected by C. @. 
Pringle, 1882; type in U.S. Nat. Herb. 
Southern California. 
