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Amador Co. and Plumas Co. (Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7:122). The species passes by indefinite 

 gradations into the var. californica C. & R., the leaflets of the upper leaves crowded on the 

 rachis and tending to be conduplicate. — Chiefly central Coast Ranges: Santa Cruz, Kennedy; 

 San Jose, Jepson 14,225; Jarvis Ldg., Alameda Co., Jepson 14,226; Mt. Tamalpais, Jepson; 

 Pt. Reyes, Jepson 1178 (fruit ovoid-cylindric) ; Howell Mt. foothills, Jepson 14,228 (bractlets 

 very conspicuous, exceeding the flowers); Suisun Marshes, Jepson 14,227; Blue Lakes, Lake 

 Co., Jepson. 



Refs. — Oenanthe sarmentosa Presl; DC. Prod. 4:138 (1830), type loc. Nootka Sound, 

 Vancouver Isl., HaenTce ; Jepson PI. W. Mid. Cal. 354 (1901), ed. 2, 298 (1911), Man. 711, fig. 

 692 (1925). Var. californica C. & R. Rev. N. A. Umbell. 92 (1888) ; Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 

 7:122, fig. 35 (1900) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 298 (1911). 0. californica Wats. Proe. 

 Am. Acad. 11:139 (1876), type loc. marshes at Pt. Lobos, San Francisco (the locality first cited) ; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 354 (1901). 



19. LILAEOPSIS Greene 



Small glabrous perennials. Stems fistulous, creeping and rooting in the mud, 

 only the leaves and short peduncles erect. Leaves reduced to hollow cylindrical 

 petioles jointed by transverse partitions. Flowers dvill white or slightly tinged 

 with pinkish-brown, in a few-flowered simple umbel. Bracts of the involucre mi- 

 nute. Fruit subglobose. Dorsal ribs filiform, the lateral corky and thickened 

 next to the commissure. Oil-tubes solitary (rarely 2) in the intervals, 2, 4 or 6 

 on the commissure. — Species 14, North and South America and Australia. (Named 

 for its resemblance to Lilaea.) 



1. L. occidentalis C. & R. Leaves 1 to 8 inches long, 1 to 2 lines wide; pe- 

 duncles 1 inch long or less; fruiting pedicels ly^toS lines long; petals plane; fruit 

 1 line long. 



Salt marshes or brackish mud flats, 1 to 100 feet : along the coast from Marin 

 Co. and Suisun Bay to Humboldt Co. North to Alaska. June-July, fr. Sept.-Oct. 



Locs. — Suisun Bay, s. shores (ace. K. Brandegee) ; Abbotts Lagoon, Pt. Reyes, Jepson 1165 ; 

 Bodega Head, K. Brandegee ; Samoa, Humboldt Co., Tracy 3102; Stone Lagoon, Humboldt Co., 

 Jepson 9333. 



Refs. — LiLAEOPSis OCCIDENTALIS C. & R. Bot. Gaz. 24 :48, fig. 2 (1897), type loc. Yakima Bav, 

 Ore., Eall 205; Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7:123, fig. 37 (1900). L. lineata Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. 

 Cal, ed. 2, 298 (1911). Crantzia lineata Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 1, 353 (1901). L. lineata 

 var. occidentalis Jepson, Madrono 1:139 (1923), Man. 714, fig. 697 (1925). 



20. SIUML. 



Glabrous perennial mar.sh or aquatic herbs with leafy stems. Leaves simply 

 pinnate ; leaflets finely serrate. Flowers white, in compound umbels. Bracts and 

 bractlets several to many. Calyx-teeth minute. Styles short. Stylopodium de- 

 pressed. Fruit ovate or oblong, somewhat laterally compressed, with narrow 

 commissure. Ribs corky, prominent or somewhat salient, with broad red-brown 

 intervals. Oil-tubes 1 to 3 in the intervals, always 2 or 3 in at least one of the 

 intervals, 2 to 6 on the commissure. — Species 9, North America, Europe, Asia and 

 Africa. (Sion, Greek name of some water plant.) 



1. S. cicutaefolium Schrank. Water Parsnip. Stem stout, simple, 2% to 

 3I/2 feet high, from a cluster of fleshy-fibrous roots; leaves % to Syo feet long; 

 leaflets 5 to 13, lanceolate, 2 to 4 inches long; bracts and bractlets ovate to lance- 

 olate, the bracts reflexed, scarious-margined below; fruit ovoid, II/2 lines long, 

 with acute ribs. 



Sloughs, ponds and bogs, 3400 to 6500 feet : Sierra Nevada from Butte Co. to 

 Modoc and Siskiyou Cos. North to British Columbia, east to Virginia. July- Aug., 

 fr. Sept, 



Locs. — Chico Mdws., Butte Co., Heller 11,641; Honey Lake Valley, Davy 3363; upper Fall 

 River Valley, ne. Shasta Co., Jepson 5768 ; Sisson, Siskiyou Co., Jepson 14,241 ; South Fork Valley, 

 Modoc Co., Jepson 7824; Egg Lake, Modoc Co., M. S. BaTcer. 



