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Type locality, *‘ Big Trees” and ** Yosemite Valley;” collected by 
Bolander; type apparently lost. 
We have not seen this plant, and hence quote Professor Greene’s description, in 
which he says that it may ‘‘represent what has been called a yellow-flowered state 
of S. bipinnatifida,”’ 
16. Sanicula bipinnata Hook. & Arn, Bot. Beechey 347. 1840. 
Slender, 2 to 4 dm. high, from a slender fusiform root; leaves twice 
or thrice pinnate, with divisions not at all decurrent, cuneate-oblong 
to ovate, incisely and mucronately toothed; umbel 3 or 4-rayed, with 
involucre of leaf-like bracts, and involucels of a few small bractlets 
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more or less united; flowers yellow; fruit 8 mm. long, with strong 
tubercles tipped with short hooked bristles: seed face deeply sulcate, 
sometimes inclosing a central cavity, with a central longitudinal 
ridge. 
Type locality. in California; collected by Douglas. 
California. 
Specimens examined: 
CALiroRNIA: Thomas Coulter 208; Kellogg & Harford 300, in 1868-69; Lemmon 
65; Solano County, Jepson, March 24, 1892; Stanford University, Rutter 52, 
February 24, 1895; near Midway, Alameda County, Greene, May 3, 1895; 
Santa Maria, Santa Barbara County, /da M. Blochinan 26, April 3, 1895; 
Butte County, Mrs. Ro M. Austin 249, April, 1896; Amador County, Hansen 
1577, April 8, 1896; Santa Lucia Mountains, Monterey County, Plaskett, 
March, 1898. 
17. Sanicula saxatilis Greene, Erythea 1:6. 0 L803, 
Stems numerous, branching and spreading from the base, about 3 
dm. long, from a thick root; leaves ternate, then pinnate, the ultimate 
segments broad, coarsely toothed; flowering branches repeatedly 
dichotomous, with pedicellate heads in the forks; involucels small, of 
very unequal foliaceous entire or toothed bractlets; flowers salmon 
color; sterile flowers on pedicels 6 mm. long; fruit 3 mm, long, 
strongly tuberculate, the upper tubercles tipped with a much reduced 
subulate and hooked bristle; seed face plane. 
Type locality, summit of Mount Diablo.” California: collected by 
Greene, June, 1892: type in Herb. Greene. 
Specimens examimed: 
Type specimen the only one seen. 
18. Sanicula tuberosa Torrey. Pacif. R. Rep. 4°: 91. 1856. 
Stems 1 to 6 dim. high, from a small globose tuber; leaves twice or 
thrice pinnate, usually very finely divided, ultimate segments very 
small; umbel 1 to 4-rayed, with involucre of leaf-like bracts, and 
involucels of small unequally united bractlets; flowers yellow, the 
sterile ones on long pedicels; fruit broader than long, more flattened 
laterally than in any other species, 2mm. lone, tuberculate, and not 
at all bristly; seed somewhat laterally flattened, with plane face. 
