40) CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Type locality, ‘*near the coast about San Francisco or northward:” 
collected by Ae//logy. 
Coast about San Francisco, Cal. 
Specimens examined: 
CALiroRNIA: Alameda (type locality), Greene, May, 1888 and 1889; Potrero Hills, 
San Francisco, Alice Hastwood, April, 1894. 
14. Sanicula bipinnatifida Dougl. in Hook. Fl. Bor, Am, 1: 258. pl. 
02. 1834. 
Stems 3 dm. or more high, from a thickened rootstock, with usually 
a cluster of leaves at base, and 1 to 3 leaves above: leaves pinnately 3 
to 7-parted, the divisions incisely toothed or lobed, decurrent on the 
rachis and forming a toothed wing, teeth acute or slightly pointed; 
umbel with 3 or 4 elongated rays, involucre of leaf-like bracts, and 
involucels of small narrow acute bractlets; flowers purple (rarely yel- 
low), in dense heads, the sterile ones pediceled; fruit bristly all over, 
38 mm. long; seed face broadly concave, with a prominent central 
longitudinal ridge. 
Type locality, ‘Fort Vancouver on the Columbia;” collected by Doug- 
las and Scouler; type in Herb. Kew. ; 
From Vancouver Island to southern California, and extending into 
Lower California, 
Specumens examined: 
CALIFORNIA: Bigelow, in 1853-54; Oakland, Bolander, in 1866; Mission, San 
Francisco, Kellogg & Harjord, in 1868; Sierra Nevada Mountains, Lennon, 
in 1875; San Diego County, Lemmon, June, 1884; Santa Rosa, Sonoma 
County, Holman, May, 1884; near San Diego, Orentf 145, March 21, 1885; 
near Visalia, Patterson, May 17, 1886; San Bernardino County, Parish 1998, 
May, 1887; Highland Springs, Stimouds, June, 1888; Los Angeles County, 
Davidson; Plumas County, Lennon, May, 1889, San Diego County, Orcutt, 
May, 1889; San Francisco County, Michener & Bioletti, April, 1891; San 
Diego County, A/derson, March, 1894; San Ysabel, Menshaw 222, April 15, 
1893; Amador County, //ansen 1296, 1298, April, 1894 and 1895; Goose Val- 
ley, Shasta County, Baker & Nutting, May 26, 1894; Little Chico Creek, R. 
M. Austin 214, April, 1896; Butte County, Brown, April 15-80, 1897. 
OreEGON: Near Cushyville, //owel/, June 12, 1888, 
WasHInGTON: Puget Sound, Wi/hes eped. 76. 
British Cotumpra: Cedar Hill, Vancouver Island, Maeoun, May 24, 1887;,near 
Victoria, Vancouver Island, Jateoun, May 27, 1893. 
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15. Sanicula nemoralis Greene, Krythea 16. 1893. 
"Erect, rather slender, a foot high, from a perpendicular root; 
leaves mostly radical, bipinnately 3 to T-parted, the divisions decurrent 
upon the rachis as a narrow entire wing: the several ascending branches 
mm) 
bearing compound umbels with elonvated rays: flowers few in the head, 
yellow; fruit small, broader than long. the whole surface covered with 
uncinate prickles which are strongly fistulate-enlarged or inflated from 
the base to near the middle.” 
