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10. Sanicula laciniata Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey 347. 1840. 
Usually slender plants, 1 to 6 dm. high; leaves broadly ovate to 
orbicular in outline, from slightly 8-lobed to deeply 3-parted, the 
divisions from toothed to laciniately cut, with bristle-tipped teeth; 
umbel 3 to 5-rayed, with involucre of leaf-like bracts, and involucels 
of small lanceolate apiculate bractlets; flowers ye:low; fruit orbicular, 
not at all stipitate, 3 mm. long. 
Type locality, in California; collected by Douglas. 
From Mendocino County to San Diego County, Cal. 
Specimens examined : 
CALIFORNIA: Bigelow, in 1853-54; Sonoma County, £2. Samuels 88; Kellogg & 
Harford 298, March 31, 1869; Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, /Toliman, March, 
1884; Mount Tamalpais, near San Francisco, Greene, March 30, 1889; San 
Rafael, Marin County, Lemmon 30, in 1889; San Diego, Dunn, March 27, 
1891; Bolinas Ridge, Marin County, Peliner 2302, June 14-16, 1892; San 
Diego County, Alderson, March, 1894; Mendocino County, Brown 705, May, 
1898. 
Hooker’s American species of Sanicula were referred to Mr. Pearson, of Kew. His 
full report has not reached us, but his brief synopsis received while reading 
age 
proof justifies our exclusion of S. nudicaulis from S. laciiata, 
11. Sanicula nevadensis Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. 11: 189. 1876. 
Low, with very short stems, the numerous stoutish peduncles aris- 
ing from near the base, 2 dm. or less high; leaves ternate, the divisions 
oblong-ovate, 3 to 5-lobed; the segments lobed or toothed; umbels with 
3 to 10 rays, involucre of pinnatifid leaf-like bracts, and involucels 
of small oblong acute more or less united bractlets; fruiting rays 1.5 
to 3.5 em. long; flowers yellow, the sterile ones on pedicels 2 to 8 mim. 
long; fruit bristly all over, 8 mm. long: seed face concave. 
Type locality, ‘* Plumas County, Cal.;” collected by Mrs. I A. 2. 
Ames and by Lemmon, type in Herb. Gray. 
Mountains of castern California. 
Specimens examined: 
CALIFORNIA: Plumas County, Mrs. M. 2. P. Ames, in 1872; same station, Lemmon, 
in 1875 and 1889; Siskiyou County, Greene 741, in 1876; Hornbrook, Stan- 
islaus County, //owell 1364, April 16, 1889; Sierra County, Sovne 357, June 
5, 1892; Modoe County, Baker, June-August, 1893; San Bernardino Moun- 
tains, altitude 1,800 meters, Parish 3501, June 26, 1894; Forestdale, Modoc 
County, Buker & Nutling, June 15, 1894; San Bernardino Mountains, Parish 
3762, June 29, 1895; Eldorado County, Hansen 1116, June 18, 1895; Pah Ute 
Pass, altitude 1,500 to 1,800 meters, Purpus 5093, in L897; San Bernardino 
Mountains, altitude 1,800 meters, Letherg 3330, April 25, 1898. 
As pointed out by Professor Greene, S. neradensis has been made to include too 
many forms. We restrict it here to its original limitations. The more northern 
forms, heretofore referred to this species, will be found under S. septentrionalis. 
12. Sanicula septentrionalis Greene, Erythea 1:6, 1893, 
S. divaricata Greene, Erythea 3:64, 1895. 
Erect, slender, from a tuberous or elongated thick root, from almost 
