PARSLEY FAMILY 629 



Locs. — Eamona, K. Brandegee ; Los Angeles, Geo, B. Grant 104; Pasadena, McClatchie 475; 

 Oak Knoll, Pasadena, Braunton 647; Ft. Tejon (Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7:117) ; Owens Lake, 

 Jepson 5113; Easting Sprs. (Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4:115) ; Sisson, Jepson 14,212. 



Eefs.— Berula erecta Gov. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4:115 (1893) ; C. & E. Contrib. U. S. 

 Nat. Herb. 7:116, fig. 32 (1900) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 354 (1901), ed. 2, 298 (1911), Man. 

 712, fig. 693 (1925). Sium erectum Huds. Fl. Angl. 103 (1762), type loc. presumably England. 

 Berula angustifolia B. & W. Bot. Cal. 1 :260 (1876). 



17. CICUTAL. AVater Hemlock 



Tall branching glabrous perennials growing in marshes or by stream banks. 

 Rootstocks short and erect, or horizontal and branching. Leaves at least partially 

 twice or thrice pinnate. Flowers white, in compound umbels. Involucre present 

 or none. Involucels of small bractlets. Calyx-teeth somewhat prominent. Styles 

 somewhat short. Fruit flattened laterally, broadly ovate to roundish. Ribs corky, 

 broad but low, the lateral in cross section larger than the intermediate and dorsal. 

 Oil-tubes 2 on the commissure, solitary in the intervals. — Species 7, North America, 

 Europe and Asia. (Classical name of the Hemlock, which was given to criminals, 

 and sometimes, when the Greeks had a superfluity, to philosophers, as a death- 

 poison.) 



Fruit with the intervals red-brown, contrasting with the corky ribs ; intervals broad. 

 Plants of living streams. 



Leaves simply pinnate or partially bipinnate below 1. C. calif ornica. 



Leaves bi- to tri-pinnate 2. C. douglasii. 



Plants of salt-marshes 3. C. iolanderi. 



Fruit with intervals of much the same color as the ribs ; intervals very narrow 4. C. vagans. 



1. C. californica Gray. California Water Hemlock. Stems about 3 feet 

 high; blades of basal leaves pinnate or partly bipinnate below, 1 to 2^/2 feet long, 

 on long (^ to lyo feet) petioles; leaflets ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, serrate, 

 3 to 5 inches long, often deeply 1-lobed on one side towards the base so as to make 

 a supplementary^ leaflet; rays somewhat unequal, iy% to 2^4 inches long; pedicels 



2 to 4 lines long; involucre none, or merely 1 narrow bract; bractlets several, ovate, 

 acuminate; fruit 1 to I14 lines long with narrow not depressed oil-tubes, those on 

 the face approximate near the median line; ribs large and corky, rounded, yel- 

 lowish, the intervals very narrow or lineate, dark red-brown. 



Swamps or lake borders, 5 to 3700 feet: Coast Ranges from Mendocino and 

 Lake Cos. to Monterey Co. June, fr. Aug. 



Locs. — Mendocino Co. (Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7:95) ; Mt. Hull, n. Lake Co., Hall 9573; 

 Leona, Oakland Hills, Michener Sr Bioletti; Ben Lomond, Santa Cruz Mts., C. E. Warden; Carmel 

 Eiver, near Carmel, Jepson 14,229. The styles in our material are about twice as long as in the 

 case of species nos. 2, 3 and 4. 



Eefs. — CicuTA CALIFORNICA Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7:344 (1868), type loe. Monterey, Hart- 

 weg 1754; Jepson, Man. 710 (1925). C. virosa var. californica C. & E. Eev. N. Am. Umbell. 130 

 (1888) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 351 (1901), ed. 2, 295 (1911). 



2. C. douglasii C. & R. Western Water Hemlock. Stems stout, glaucous, 



3 to 6 feet high; herbage often purplish; rootstocks short; leaves bipinnate; leaf- 

 lets sessile or nearly so, lanceolate, 1^ to 4 inches long, coarsely incised-serrate to 

 serrulate, sometimes falcate; involucre none or of a few lanceolate bracts; involu- 

 cels consisting of 9 to 12 lanceolate-acuminate bractlets; rays II/2 to 2^4 inches 

 long; pedicels 2 lines long; fruit sub-orbicular, 1 to 2 lines long; ribs very broad 

 and low; inters^als narrow, red-brown, sharply defined from the light-colored ribs; 

 oil-tubes small; seed not channeled under the oil-tubes. 



In active streams or in wet meadows in the mountains or in swamps in valleys, 

 5 to 7000 feet: coastal Southern California; easterly parts of the Sierra Nevada 

 or its east side bordering valleys from Inyo Co. to Modoc Co.; North Coast Ranges 

 from Humboldt Co. to Siskiyou Co. North to Alaska. July- Aug., fr. Aug.-Sept. 



