COULTER AND ROSE—-NORTH AMERICAN UMBELLIFERAE, 39 
simple to divaricate branching, from 1 to 3.5 dm. high; basal leaves 
few and small, ternate or biternate, the obovate segments cleft or 
coarsely toothed; stem leaves few, mostly more sharply cleft or toothed; 
peduncles usually much elongated and often spreading; umbels with 
3 to 5 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 1 mm. long; 
fruit 4 mm. long, covered all over with long bristles; seed face plane. 
Type locality, ‘*Chase River, Vancouver Island”; collected by 
Macoun, June 4, 1887; type in Herb. Greene. 
From northern California to Vancouver Island and western Montana. 
Specimens exammed: 
Cauirorsia: Plumas County, Mrs, RR. A Austin, May, 1880; Independence 
Lake, Nevada County, Sovne 8, June 26, 1892; near Castle Peak, Greene, 
July 20, 1893; Big Valley Mountains, Modoe County, Baker & Nutting, June 
15, 1894. 
OreGon: Oakland, //oivel/ 181, April, 1881; ridges near The Dalles, //owell, June 
20, 1882; sterile mountain ridges, altitude 1,800 meters, Cusick 960, August, 
1884. 
WasHINGTON: East of Cascade Mountains, Wilkes Herped. 834; Klickitat County, 
Suksdorf 20, April 25, 1881; Falcon Valley, Sudsdorf 95, June, 1883; Yakima 
County and Kittitas County, Henderson 2577, August 4, 1892; 2. HL. Snow, 
3lue Mountains, Wallawalla County, Piper 2338, July 15, 1896; same station, 
Horner 214, July 29, 1897; steep dry slope in the Goat Mountains, Cascades, 
altitude 1,650 meters, O. D. Allen 254, in 1896. 
Ipano: Cuddy Mountains, Jones, July 1, 1899. 
Montana: Columbia Falls, Williams 982, June, 1898 and 1894, 
Britisun Cotumpra: Cedar Hill, Vancouver Island, Wacoun, May 11, 1887; Chase 
fiver, Vancouver Island, Macoun, June 4, 1887; near Victoria, Vancouver 
Island, Macoun 295, May 19, 1893. 
These forms have all been confused with S. neradensis, although they represent a 
very distinct species and one well separated by Professor Greene. After an exami- 
nation of Californian specimens, including Professor Greene’s type of S. divaricata, 
we can not distinguish it from S. seplentrionalis. Selected specimens of the two are 
quite different in habit, but these differences seem to us not at all constant, and the 
two have in common the more technical characters which distinguish this species 
from S. nevadensis. 
13. Sanicula maritima Kelloge, Bot. Calif. 2:451.  Lsso. 
Stems stout, 3 dm. or more high from a thickened rootstock; basal 
Jeaves long-petioled, somewhat cordate, very obtuse, entire or spar- 
ingly denticulate or crenulate, 5 to LO em, long, 3.5 to 4.5 em. broad; 
stem leaves one or few, smaller and more or less lobed or parted (as 
are sometimes the basal leaves); peduncles few and elongated; umbel 
with 1 to 8 rays, involucre of large leaf-like lobed or parted bracts, 
and involucels of numerous small lanceolate bractlets; flowers in dense 
heads, the sterile ones short-pediceled; fruit somewhat naked below, 
bristly above, 3 to 4 mm. long; seed face concave, with a very prom- 
inent central longitudinal ridge. 
