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3. S. iiuaicsiulls, H. & A. Bot. Beech. 347 (1840): S. laciinata, H. & A. 

 1. c. Stems several, slender, erect, 1 ft. high or more: leaves long- 

 petioled, of cordate outline, 3-parted; divisions laciniately once or twice 

 piuuatitid, the segments with widely spreading acute often spinosely 

 pointed teeth: fl. yellow, in many small heads disposed in compound 

 umbels terminating sparingly leafy branches: fr. naked at base, uncinate- 

 bristly above. — Wooded hills, among bushes, along borders of thickets 

 etc., from Humboldt Co. to Monterey, towards the sea. It is not improb- 

 able that <S'. iindiraiilis and Inciniala may be proven distinct; but while 

 they are treated as one, to the former name must be conceded the priority 

 which belongs to it. Mar. — May. 



4. S. Nevadeiisis, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 139 (1876). Stout and 

 low, the numerous branches ascending and almost scapiform, 1 — 6 in. 

 long: leaves ternate, the divisions oblong-ovate, 3— 5-lobed, the segments 

 lobed or toothed : rays about 5, sometimes branched : involucre of pin- 

 natifid bracts: fl. greenish or yellowish, the sterile ones equalling the 

 peelicels: fr. covered with stout forked prickles. — Foothills of both ranges 

 of mountains, but chiefly northward. 



5. S. maritima, Kellogg; Bot. Calif, ii. 451 (1880); Greene, Pitt. i. 

 269 (1889). Stoutish, 1 ft. high, rather fleshy: radical leaves long-petioled, 

 the lowest oblong-cordate, not lobed, but crenate-dentate; some of the 

 later more or less deeply 3-lobed, 2 4 in. long: involucre of large leaf- 

 like lobed or parted bracts : umbel of about 3 elongated rays : fl. yellow, 

 the sterile ones short-pedicellate: fr. nearly naked below, prickly above, 

 2 lines long. — In moist lowlands adjacent to salt marshes about San 

 Francisco Bay near Alameda, San Francisco, etc. Mar. — May. 



* * * Fruit sessile; leaves piunalely divided and subdivided. 



6. S. bipiiiiiatiiirta, Dough; Hook. Fh i. 258 (1833). Stoutish, slightly 

 fleshy, 1 — 2 ft. high, herbage of a pecviliarly dark green: leaves mostly 

 radical, but an opposite pair on the stem near the base, with 1 — 3 above 

 these, all pinnately 3 - 7-parted, the divisions incisely toothed or lobed, 

 decurrent on the toothed rachis, the teeth acutely or somewhat setaceously 

 pointed : umbel of 3 or 4 greatly elongated rays : fl. of a very dark pur- 

 plish red: fr. IJg lines long, prickly. — Very common on hillsides and 

 open grounds generally. Mar. — May. 



7. S. bipinnata, H. & A. Bot. Beech. 347 (1840). Like the last in size: 

 segments of the bipinnate leaves remote, not decurrent, narrowly obovate, 

 cuueate, incisely mucronate-dentate: umbel compound: fl. yellow: fr. 

 naked at base, echinate above. —Apparently of the interior only, from 

 Kern Co. to Butte. Feb. — Apr. 



8. S. tuberosa, Torr. Pac. R. Rep. iv. 91 (1857). Very slender, the 



