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long slender taproot. Leaves 1-3-ternate. or simply ternate, then 1-2-pinnate; leaf -divisions 

 linear to filiform, 0.5-8 cm. long; rays 3-15, ascending to spreading, 1.5-15 cm. long, unequal; 

 bractlets usually filiform, scarious-margined ; pedicels 3-15 mm. long, few fertile; flowers yel- 

 low or purple ; fruit oval to slightly obovate, 9-12 mm. long ; wings thm, narrower than to as 

 broad as the body; oil-tubes obscure. 



Rocky flats, Arid Transition and Upper Sonoran Zones; North Coast Ranges and^ western foothills of 

 the northern Sierra Nevada, California. Type locality: "in valle Sacramento, California. May-July. 



28. Lomatium caruifolium (Hook. & Arn.) Coult. & Rose. Caraway-leaved 



Lomatium. Fig. 3568. 



Ferula caruifolia Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey 348. 1838. 



Lomatixtm caruifolium Coult. & Rose, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 7:216. 1900. 

 Lomatium caruifolium var. solanense Jepson, Madrono 1: 151. 1924. 

 Lomatium caruifolium var. erythropodum Jepson, Fl. Calif. 2: 638. 1936. 



Plants acaulescent or short-caulescent, 1.5-4.5 dm. tall, glabrous to pubescent, from a long 

 slender taproot. Leaves 1-3-ternate, or simply ternate, then bipinnate; leaf-divisions linear, 2-lo 

 mm. long; petioles wholly sheathing; rays 6-15, unequal, 1-13 cm. long; bractlets obovate, ses- 

 sile or petiolulate, entire or toothed, green or purplish, scarious-margined, prominently vemed; 

 pedicels 2-8 mm. long ; flowers yellow ; fruit narrowly ovate to obovate, 8-13 mm. long, glabrous ; 

 wings thickish, narrower than the body ; oil-tubes obscure. 



Low wet ground. Arid Transition and Upper Sonoran Zones; Coast Ranges, Mendocino County to San 

 Luis Obispo County, California. Type locality: California. March-May. 



29. Lomatium hiimile (Coult. & Rose) Hoover. Foothill Lomatium. Fig. 3569. 



Leptotaenia anomala Coult. & Rose, Rev. N. Amer. Umbell. S3. 1888. Not Lomatium anomalum. M. E. Jones, 



1900. 

 Leptotaenia humilis Coult. & Rose, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 7:200. 1900. 

 Leptotaenia humilis var. denticulata Jepson, Madrono 1:146. 1923. 

 Lomatium humile Hoover ex. Math. & Const. Bull. Torrey Club 69:246. 1942. 



Plants acaulescent, 1.5-5.5 dm. tall, glabrous or scaberulous in the inflorescence, from a 

 long slender taproot. Leaves ternate, then 1-2-pinnate; leaf-divisions Imear to fihforni, 2-60 

 mm. long; fertile ravs 2-5, spreading to ascending 1.5-7 cm. long; bractlets orbicular to lanceo- 

 late often petiolulate, scarious-margined, toothed to entire, conspicuously veined; pedicels 1-4 

 mm', long; flowers yellow (or purple?); fruit oval to orbicular, 6-12 mm. long, glabrous or 

 denticulate on the margins ; wings thick and corky, narrower than the body ; oil-tubes obscure. 



Grassy slopes, Arid Transition and Upper Sonoran Zones; western footWIls of the Sierra Nevada from 

 Tehama County to Tulare County, California. Type locality: plains near Chico, Butte County, California. 

 April-July. 



30 Lomatium Bradshawii (Rose) Math. & Const. Bradshaw's Lomatium. 



Fig. 3570. 



Leptotaenia Bradshawii Rose ex Mathias, Leaflets West. Bot. 1: 101. 1934. 

 Lomatium Bradshawii Math. & Const. Bull. Torrey Club 69: 246. 1942. 



Plants acaulescent or short-caulescent, glabrous, 2-6 . 5 dm. tall, from a long slender tap- 

 root Leaves ternate, then 1-2-pinnate; leaf-division filiform to linear, 3-8 mm. long; fertile 

 rays 2-5, spreading, unequal, 5-13 cm. long ; bractlets orbicular, scarious-margined, 1-2-ternate ; 

 pedicels 2-5 mm. long, few fertile; flowers light yellow; fruit oblong to oblong-oval, 8-13 mm. 

 long, glabrous ; wings thick and corky, narrower than the body ; oil-tubes obscure. 



Swales, Humid Transition Zone; Willamette Valley, Oregon. Type locality: Eugene, Oregon. May-July. 



31. Lomatium Peckianum Math. & Const. Peck's Lomatium. Fig. 3571. 



Lomatium Peckianum Math. & Const. Bull. Torrey Club 69: 155. 1942. 



Plants acaulescent, 1-3 dm. tall, scaberulous to glabrous, from a long slender taproot. 

 Leaves ternate then again 1-2-ternate; leaf-divisions oblong to linear, 1-18 mm. long; rays 

 1-5, ascending, obsolete to 5 cm. long, very unequal ; bractlets none or few. narrow and incon- 

 spicuous ; pedicels 2-7 mm. long; ovaries granulate-roughened; fruit oblong-oval, 2-15 mm. 

 long, granulate-roughened to glabrate; wings less than half the width of the body; oil-tubes 

 several in the intervals, 6-8 on the commissure. 



Dry hillsides, Upper Sonoran Zone; south-central Oregon and Siskiyou County, California. Type local- 

 ity: Blye, Klamath County, Oregon. May-June. 



32 Lomatium nevadense (S. Wats.) Coult. & Rose. Nevada Lomatium. 



Fig. 3572. 



Feucedanum nevadense S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 11: 143. 1876. 



Peucedanum nevadense var. cupulatum M. E. Jones. Contr. West. Bot. No. 8:29. 1898. 



Lomatium nevadense Coult. & Rose, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 7:220. 1900. 



Plants acaulescent or short-caulescent, 1-4.5 dm. tall, pubescent, from a long slender tap- 

 root sometimes with a deep-seated tuber. Leaves tripinnate ; leaf-divisions crowded, oblong, /-3 

 mm long; rays 8-22, spreading, unequal, 1-2.5 cm. long; bractlets conspicuous, linear and 

 distinct or obovate and connate, scarious-margined; pedicels 3-10 mm. long; flowers white; 



