A¢ Sanicula (Tourn.)L. Sanicle. 
Perennia}) herbs with palmately divided leaves. Flowers yellow or 
greenish, both perfect and staminate in irregularly compound or simple 
umbels, subtended by foliaceous involucres. Calyx teeth persistent. Fruit 
subglobose, the carpels remaining joined at maturity, ribless, covered with 
Oil tubes irregularly distributed, numerous. 
hooked bristles. 
1. S. marilandica L. ——_>%eeeneprevews sewsmmiwi herbs 50-70 om. tall, 
slender, glabrous throughout, the leaves few, the lower on petioles 5-15 cm. 
long, the a ater tl sessile, the blades kidney shaped in outline, ;auieeseodse 
: meee O-7 segnents, the outermost segments usually cut 
less gaeEy, all more or less obcuneate or rhomboidal, acute, attenuate below 
the middle, =uuummuegmmmmr irrecsularly serrate; umbels simple or sometimes appear= 
ing compound, the clusters globose, burr-like, green, 8-9 mm. in diameter, 
bracts about 2 mm. long; Sdremememgeocsg, fruits 2-2.2 mn. 
long, sessile, pam hooked bristles nearly as fong as the fruit 
itself, the sterile Si Gwore on slender pedicels 5 mm. long, the perianth-segments 
narrowly lanceolate, spine-tipped, 1 mm. long. 
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Rare in our region, occasional in the northern part in shaded moist 
woodse Intsresting as an castern svecies which reaches its northwestermmost stations 
qi) our rerione 
’ aie Pend De ee em ree Priest R. xp. Sta.,-wphing—6O3p; 
Upper Priest Rey 3000 ft. —tpiine eee 
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