UMBELLIFER.^. 333 



acute, laciniately lohetl or toothed: umbel only 1 — 4-rayed, with involucre 

 and involucels of linear bracts and bractlets, the latter exceeding the 

 tiowers: fr. 6 — 8 lines long, 3 lines wide, abruptly attenuate at base, 

 rough-bristly on the very prominent ribs. -From near Monterey to 

 Nevada Co. and southward. 



5. M. iiuda, Greene. Torr. Pac. R Rep. iv. 93 (1857), under Osmor- 

 rhiza. Slender, 2 — 3 ft. high, more or less pilose-pubescent: leaves 

 twice ternate; leaflets 1 — 2 in. long, ovate, acute or obtusish, rather 

 deeply cleft and toothed: umbel long-peduncled, 3 — 5-rayed, naked or 

 with small caducous bracts and bractlets; pedicels I4 — % in- long: fr. 

 slender, 3 — 7 lines long, with slenderly attenuate base; carpels acutely 

 ribbed; stylopodium very short.— Common in shady woods along streams 

 almost throughout the State. 



26. CHJCROPHYLLUM, Columna. Rather slender annuals with 

 ternately compound leaves, and small white flowers in almost naked 

 umbels. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit lanceolate, or ovate-oblong and 

 beaked at summit, the beak not as long as the body; ribs of carpel 

 equal; oil-tubes present. 



1. C. Antheiscus, Lam. Encycl. i. 685 (1783); Linn. Sp. PI. i. 256 

 (1753), under Scandix. Anthriscus vulgaris, Pers. Syn. i. 320 (1805). 

 Weak and often half reclining; small umbels opposite the leaves, about 

 3-rayed : f r. about 2 lines long including the short beak, roughened with 

 short rigid incurved bristles. — In sandy soil at Alameda, Dr. W. P. Gib- 

 bons; naturalized from Europe. 



27. SCAXDIX, Theophrastus. Annual, with pinnately decompound 

 leaves cut into countless slender segments. Flower and fruit much as in 

 Chserophyllum, except that the beak of the carpel far exceeds the body. 



1. S. Pecten venekis, Dod. Pempt. 689 (1583); Linn. Sp. PI. i. 256 

 (1753); Crantz,Austr. 189(1769), under Chxrophyllum; All. Fl. Pedem. 

 ii. 29 (1785), under Myrrhis. Erect, 1 ft. high more or less, leafy through- 

 out, but radical leaves ample, of oblong outline, cut into many short 

 ligulate acuminate lobes: bractlets of involucels many: fr. J^ — 3 in. 

 long including the beak which is the conspicuous part of it, the body 

 and the margins of the beak with tubercles ending in short prickles. — A 

 weed in fields and by waysides in Napa, Contra Costa and Alameda 

 counties; first detected in Napa Valley, by Mr. Sonne, in 1888; intro- 

 duced from Europe. 



28. DAUCUS, Galen. More or less hispid annuals and biennials, 

 with pinnately decompound leaves, involucres and involucels of lobed or 

 divided bracts, and white flowers. Outer rays of umbel longest and in 

 fruit connivent over the inner, giving a concave top to the umbel as a 



