COULTER AND ROSE—NORTH AMERICAN UMBELLIFERAE, 37 
Specimens examined: 
CauirorntA: Monterey, Parry, in 1850; San Diego, Oreutt 112, March, 1882; San 
Luis Obispo, Mrs. Rk. W. Summers, March, 1882; San Diego, Jones 3149, April 
19, 1882; same station, Pringle, May 6, 1882; Oakland Hills, Lemmon 14, 
April, 1889; Los Angeles, [/asse, April, 1888, and May, 1892; San Ysabel, Hen- 
shaw 201, March 29, 1893; Santa Catalina [sland and San Nicholas Island, 
Blanche Trask, April, 1896 and 1897. 
8. Sanicula arctopoides Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey 141. 1832. 
Stems very short, from thickened rootstocks, bearing a tuft of leaves 
and several (often much longer) divergent scape-like branches 5 to 30 
em. long, each bearing an umbel of 1 to + elongated rays; leaves deeply 
palmately 3-lobed, the cuneate divisions once or twice laciniately cleft, 
usually dissected into lanceolate acute spreading segments; involucre 
of 1 or 2 similar leaf-like bracts; umbellets large, 6 to 12 mm. in 
diameter, with conspicuous involucels of 8 to 12 narrowly oblanceolate 
mostly entire bractlets much exceeding the vellow flowers; fruit short- 
pediceled, 2 to 3mm. long, naked at base, with strong bristles above; 
seed face almost plane. 
Type locality not given; but collected by J/enz7es on the ‘* Northwest 
coast of America,” according to Hooker. 
From southern California to Vancouver Island and the coast of 
British Columbia. 
Specimens examined: 
CALIFORNIA: Thomas Coulter 204; Bigelow, in 1853-54; San Francisco, Bolander, 
in 1866; same station, Aellogg & Harford 299, in 1868-69; same station, 
hh. R. Drew, March 25, 1888; same station, Greene, April 21, 1889; Monterey, 
Cloud Rutter 198, Mareh 25, 1895; near Mendocino, Mendocino County, 
altitude 150 meters, Brown 734, May, 1898. 
OREGON: Mrs. Nevins. 
9. Sanicula howellii C. & RK. Bot. Gaz. 138: 81. 188s. 
Stems coarse, 3 dm. or less high, more or less buried in the sand, 
often bearing tufts of stout elongated peduncles and leaves; leaves 
broad and palmately 8 to 5-lobed (often much moditied by burial in 
the sand), the upper inclined to be pinnately lobed, the divisions rather 
sharply cut and toothed, the teeth mucronate-tipped; umbels unequally 
few-raved, with involucre of few leaf-like bracts, and involucels of very 
prominent bractlets, sometimes much exceeding the large globose head 
of fruit; flowers vellow; fruit apparently sessile, bristly all over, 3 to 
4mm. long; seed face concave. 
Type locality, ** sandy shores, Tilamook Bay and Ocean Beach, 
Oregon”; collected by //owel/, no. 16, July 15, 1882; type in Herb. 
Coulter, duplicate in U.S. Nat. Herb. 
From the coast of Oregon to Vancouver Island, 
Specimens examimed: 
OREGON: Type specimen, as cited under type locality; same station and date, 
Henderson 1584; same station, Loie/l 1365, May 14, 1887, and in 1888. 
WASHINGTON: Shores of Puget Sound, Wilkes Erped. 71. 
British CotumBra: Beacon Hill, Vancouver Ishiund, Jacoun, May 25, 1887. 
