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pedicels 1 to 2 lines long; bracts 4 to 6, obovate, membranous, erosulate at the 

 truncatish or obtuse apex, 2 lines long, tipped by a bristle 1 to l^^ lines long; fruit 

 (immature) ovate, obscurely short-beaked, II/2 lines long. 



Foothills, 2000 to 2500 feet : Calaveras Co. (Mountain Ranch). May. 



Eefs. — EuLOPHUS cuspidatus Jepson, Madrono 1:133 (1923), type loc. Table Hills near 

 Mountain Ranch, Calaveras Co., Davy 1618; Jepson, Man. 710 (1925). 



11. LIGUSTICUM L. Lovage 



Perennial herbs with large aromatic roots. Herbage glabrous. Leaves bi- or 

 tri-ternate in ours, with pinnate divisions. Flowers white or pinkish, in many- 

 rayed compound umbels. Involucre none. Involucels of narrow bractlets. Calyx- 

 teeth small or obsolete. Fruit oblong or ovate, a little flattened laterally. Ribs 

 prominent, acute or slightly winged, equal. Oil-tubes mostly 3 to 5 in the broad 

 intervals, 6 to 10 on the commissure. — Species about 45, Europe, Asia, north Africa, 

 New Zealand, Chile and North America. (Name derived from Liguria, a province 

 of Italy, where Lovage, Ligusticum levisticum L., is endemic.) 



Stems more or less leafy; rays and leaf -margins scaberulous; coastal 1. L. apiodorum. 



Stems not leafy or with 1 reduced leaf; rays and leaf -margins not scabrous; montane. ...2. L. grayi. 



1. L. apiodorum C. & R. Wood Lovage. Stems more or less leafy, 2 to 3 (or 

 6) feet high; rays and the margins of the leaflets and commonly the peduncles and 

 the nerves of the leaflets scaberulous; leaves uni-, bi- or partly tri-ternate, then 

 the divisions pinnate with 3 or 5 leaflets; leaflets broadly ovate in outline, lacini- 

 ately pinnatifid, % to 2 inches long; fruiting rays % to 1 (or II/2) inches long; 

 bractlets linear-setaceous, few or none; fruit broadly oblong, 1% to 2 lines long, 

 the ribs very sharp ; oil-tubes 4 or 5 in the dorsal intervals, 5 or 6 in the lateral ones, 

 6 to 8 on the commissure. 



Rocky or brushy hills, 5 to 2500 feet : coastal region from San Mateo Co. to Del 

 Norte Co. June, fr. Aug. 



Locs. — San Mateo, Elmer 4803 ; Bay View Hills, San Francisco, E. Cannon; Pt. Reyes, Davy 

 6766; Kenwood, Sonoma Co., Blasdale ; Eureka, Tracy 971; Dinsmore Ranch, Van Duzen River 

 valley, Tracy 3970; Hupa road near Redwood Creek, Jepson 1959; Trinidad, Tracy 6820; Gilbert 

 Creek, Del Norte Co., Jepson 9356. 



Refs. — Ligusticum apiodorum C. & R. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7:132 (1900) ; Jepson, Man. 

 713, fig. 695 (1925). Pimpinella apiodora Gray, Proe. Am. Acad. 7:345 (1868), type loc. rocky 

 hills, Mendocino coast, Bolander (first locality cited) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 353 (1901), ed. 

 2, 297 (1911). 



2. L. grayi C. & R. Sheep Lovage. Plants 1 to 2V2 feet high, glabrous, the 

 stems 1 or 2 from a stout fibrous-coated caudex, not leafy or with one much reduced 

 leaf; leaves basal, once or twice ternate, then pinnate with 5 or 7 leaflets, the leaflets 

 ovate in outline, incised, parted or divided, ^/^ to li/4 inches long; flowers white; 

 bractlets linear-setaceous, few or none; fruiting rays 1 to 2^ inches long; pedicels 

 2 to 3 lines long ; fruit 2 lines long, the ribs very narrowly winged ; oil-tubes 3 to 

 6 in the intervals, 4 to 8 on the commissure. 



Montane slopes or meadows, 4000 to 10,200 feet : Sierra Nevada from Tulare 

 Co. to Modoc Co.; inner North Coast Range from Trinity Co. to Siskiyou Co. 

 July- Aug., fr. Aug.-Sept. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada: Farewell Gap, Jepson 1149; Mineral King, Jepson 1033; Mt. Silli- 

 man, E. Brandegee; Chilnualna Creek, Congdon; Peregoy Mdw., Yosemite, Jepson 5640a; Rodgers 

 Lake to Muir Lake, Jepson 3386 ; Piute Mt., Tuolumne Co., Jepson 4582 ; Soda Springs Canon, 

 Kennedy Lake, A. L. Grant 472; Stanislaus Peak, A. L. Grant 530; Big Mdws., Calaveras Co., 

 Jepson 10,087; Ebbetts Pass, Alpine Co., Brewer 2082; Silver Creek, Eldorado Co., Kennedy 21; 

 Mt. Tallac, Jepson 8155; Deer Park, Placer Co., C. J. Fox; Summit sta., Nevada Co., Jepson 

 14,243; Pioneer road sta.. North Fork Yuba River, Jepson 16,838; Mill Creek Mdw., Warner 

 Mts., L. S. Smith 985; Mt. Bidwell, Jepson 7884. Inner North Coast Range: South Yollo Bolly, 

 Jepson 14,244; Shackelford Creek, near Quartz Valley, Butler 459. 



