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toothed. Umbel 3-4-rayed, sometimes compound ; involucre leaf- 

 like ; globular heads subtended by small united bracts. Millwood 

 and General Grant Grove. 



Washingtonia brachypoda Heller. Roots sweet, aromatic ; 

 stems rather stout, a foot or so high, pubescent or smooth. 

 Leaves ternately compound. Flowers small. Fruit strongly 

 ribbed, pointed at each end, hispid on the ribs. Bubbs Creek, 

 General Grant Park. 



Spheitosciadium capitellatum Qray. Stems stout, 2-3 ft. 

 high. Leaves large, nearly smooth, pale green ; leaflets linear to 

 lanceolate, toothed or lobed, an inch or more long. Umbels with 

 4-8 white, woolly rays terminated by globular heads of white or 

 purplish-tinged flowers ; involucre wanting ; bracts under the 

 heads narrowly-linear. Pods white-hirsute. Bubbs Creek trail. 



Angelica Breweri Qray. Stems stout, 2-3 ft. high, ribbed, 

 finely pubescent. Leaves nearly a foot in diameter ; leaflets 

 lanceolate, sharply serrate, sometimes lobed at base, X~/^ '^°- 

 wide, an inch or more long. Umbels large, with numerous thread- 

 like rays ; involucre wanting, also the bracts under the umbels. 

 Bubbs Creek. 



Angelica lineariloba Qray. Stems stout, 2-3 ft. high, ribbed, 

 smooth. Leaves about a foot wide and long ; the leaflets linear, 

 entire, spine-tipped, 1-2 in. long, the edges folding together, 

 minutely rough-pubescent. Umbels with numerous smooth, 

 slender rays ; without involucre or bracts under the heads. 

 Bubbs Creek. 



Leptotsenia multifida Nutt. Stems 1-2 ft. high, smooth and 

 glaucous. Lowest leaves about a foot long; leaflets dissected 

 into short, linear lobes, less than ^ in. long and narrow, the 

 thickened margins and midribs roughly ciliate. Umbels lo-rayed 

 but without involucre, and the small umbels without bracts. 

 Bubbs Creek. 



Pteryxia Californica C. & R. Without a stem or with the 

 scapes rarely with a single leaf at base, about a foot high, smooth. 

 Leaves pinnately thrice compound ; the segments very small, 

 linear, bristle-tipped (the whole leaf becomes 6 in. or more long 

 and almost as wide). Rays of the umbel unequal, 5-10 ; involucre 

 wanting, the bracts under the small umbels thread-like. Flowers 

 yellow ; immature fruit reddish. The caudex is branched from a 

 perennial tap-root, and the plants grow in bunches. Collected at 

 Bubbs Creek, Millwood and Bullfrog Lake. 



