PARSLEY FAMILY 



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Rock ledges, brushy hillsides or canons, 500 to 3500 feet : Coast Ranges from 

 Santa Cruz Co. to Humboldt Co. ; Sierra Nevada foothills from Tulare Co. to Butte 

 Co. North to Oregon. Feb. -Apr., fr. July. It has a fairly wide distribution from 

 north to south, but the known stations are infrequent. 



Locs. — Coast Eanges: Santa Cruz Co. (Anderson, Nat. Hist. Santa Cruz Co. 38) ; Pilarcitos 

 Canon, San Mateo Co., Davy; Mt. Tamalpais, Jepson 14,324; Comptche, Mendocino Co., H. A. 

 Walker 274; Maple Creek, Mad Eiver, Tracy 2607; Willow Creek, Trinity Elver, Tracy 3289. 



Sierra Nevada foothills: Kaweah 

 (Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7:82); 

 Millwood (Sequoia Mills), (Contrib. 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. 7:82); Folsom 

 (Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7:82); 

 Eldorado Co., SJwcMey; Stirling, 

 Butte Co., Heller 10,811. 



Eefs. — Velaea kelloggii C. & 

 E. Eev. N. A. Umbell. 121 (1888) ; 

 Jepson Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 350 (1901), 

 ed. 2, 294 (1911), Man. 716 (1925). 

 Deweya Icelloggii Gray, Proc. Am, 



b "^"^^Sj^^s/ ^vill ^^^^- ''•^^^ (1868), t}i)e loc. Bo- 



" ■"'' ' ~ ' '" Ima.s'Bny, Kellogg. Drudeophytum 



Icelloggii C. & E. Contrib. U, S. Nat. 

 Herb. 7:81 (1900). 



4. V. parishii C. & R. 



(Fig. 269.) Plants erect, short 

 (1/2 to 11/2 feet high), with 

 mostly basal leaves; herbage 

 glabrous throughout; leaves 

 Vs to 1/2 as long as flowering 

 stems, thickish, bipinnate, the 

 segments ovate, irregularly in- 

 cised or cuspidate-toothed, 4 

 to 7 lines long; rays 14 to 20, 



1 to 214 inches long; pedicels 



2 to 3 lines long; pedicels of 

 sterile flowers often equaling 

 the fruit; involucre none; in- 

 volucels of a few setaceous 

 bractlets; calyx-teeth promi- 

 nent; fruit oblong, 2 to 3 lines 

 long; oil-tubes 3 or 4 in the in- 

 tervals, 4 or 5 on the commis- 

 sure. 



Rocky or gravelly slopes 

 or benches, often in open pine 

 forest, 4000 to 8500 feet: 



mountains of cismontane Southern California; southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare 



and Inyo Cos, May-June, fr. July- Aug. 



Locs. — Laguna Mts., San Diego Co., E. Bethel; Santa Eosa Indian Village, Santa Eosa Mts., 

 Jepson 1441; Kenworthy, San Jacinto Mts., Muns 5454; Cushenbury Canon, San Bernardino Mts., 

 Parish 2379; Mt. Wilson, Davidson; Mt. Lowe, Peirson 136; Bitter Creek, Mt. Pinos, Hall 6633; 

 Piute Peak, Kern Co., Purpus 5339; Lloyd Mdws., Kern Eiver, Jepson 4901; Cottonwood Creek 

 near Timosea Peak, Inyo Co., Jepson 5085. 



Eefs. — Velaea parishii C. & E. Eev. N. Am. Umbell. 121 (1888), type loc. San Bernardino 

 Mts., S. B. 4- W. F. Parish 978, 1827 (typ. vidi) ; Jepson, Man 716 (1925). Drudeophytum parishii 

 C. & E. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7:82 (1900). Cymopterus owenensis Jones, Contrib. W. Bot. 

 12:26 (1908), type loc. lower east slope of Mt. Whitney, Jones (cf. Mathias, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 

 17:397). Tauschia parishii Mcbr. Contrib. Gray Herb. 56:32 (1918), 



Fig. 268. Velaea kelloggii C. & E. a, lower part of 

 plant, X 1/4 ; &, umbel, X V2; c, f r., X 6 ; d, cross sect, of 

 carpel, X 7. 



