PARSLEY FAMILY 647 



Eefs. — LOMATIUM PIPERI C. & R. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7:211 (1900), type loc. Ellens- 

 burg, Kittitas Co., Wash., Vasey; Jepson, Man. 725 (1925). Cogswellia piperi Jones, Contrib. 

 W. Bot. 12:33 (1908). 



25. PASTINACAL. 



Tall branching biennial with angular or fluted leafy stems from thick roots. 

 Leaves large, simply pinnate. Flowers yellow, in compound umbels. Involucre 

 and involucels small or commonly none. Fruit oval, strongly compressed. Lateral 

 ribs winged; dorsal and intermediate ribs filiform. Oil-tubes not quite as long as 

 fruit, solitary in the intervals, 2 to 4 on the commissure. — Species about 14, Europe, 

 Asia and Africa. (Latin name of the Parsnip, including also the Carrot, according 

 to Pliny.) 



1. P. sativa L. Common Parsnip. Erect, 3 to 4 feet high; leaflets ovate, ser- 

 rate or somewhat incised, lobed or even more or less 3 to 5-divided, 3 to 4 inches 

 long; rays 10 to 20, 1 to 2% inches long; fruit 2i/2 to 3 lines long; oil-tubes con- 

 spicuous. 



European garden plant, escaped from cultivation and locally naturalized in 

 moist valleys. May-June. 



Locs. — San Gorgonio Creek, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 1589 ; San Bernardino, Parish in 

 1888 ; Coldwater Canon, San Gabriel Mts., Ewan 7816 ; Cienega near Los Angeles (Erythea 1 :59) ; 

 Boulder Creek, Santa Cruz Mts., E. A. Wallcer 834; Scott Valley, Lake Co., Jepson 14,223; 

 Comptche, Mendocino Co., E. A. Walker 338; Sacramento, Bioletti. 



Eefs. — Pastinaca sativa L. Sp. PL 262 (1753), type European; Jepson PI. W. Mid. Cal. 

 360 (1901), ed. 2, 303 (1911), Man. 726, fig. 709 (1925). 



26. ANETHUM L. 



Slender annuals with leafy stems and finely dissected leaves. Flowers yellow, 

 in compound umbels. Involucre and involucels none. Fruit elliptical, flattened 

 dorsally, the lateral ribs narrowly winged. Oil-tubes solitary in the intervals. — 

 Species 2, Asia. (Ancient Greek name of the Dill.) 



1. A. graveolens L. Dill. Plants usually branching, 1 to 3 feet high. 



Cultivated plant of the Old World, occasionally escaped from gardens about 

 towns, 5 to 1500 feet. 



Locs. — San Bernardino (Zoe 2:28); Los Angeles (Erythea 1:59); Oakland (Proc. Iowa 

 Acad. Sci. 23:491). 



Eefs. — ANETHUM GRAVEOLENS L. Sp. PI. 263 (1753), type Iberian; Jepson, Man. 726 (1925). 

 Peucedanum graveolens C. & E. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb, 7 :255 (1900), not published by Bentham 

 and Hooker as there cited. 



27. OXYPOLIS Raf . 



Glabrous erect aquatic herbs with fascicled tubers borne on a short rootstock. 

 Leaves temate or (in ours) pinnate. Umbels compound. Involucre and involucels 

 present. Flowers white. (3alyx-teeth evident. Fruit flattened dorsally, ovate to 

 obovate; dorsal and intermediate ribs filiform; lateral ribs broadly winged, the 

 wings closely contiguous to those of the companion carpel and strongly nerved next 

 to the body (thus giving the appearance of 5 dorsal ribs). Stylopodium short- 

 conical. Oil-tubes solitarj^ in the intervals, 2 to 6 on the commissure. — Species 5, 

 North America. (Greek oxys, sharp, and polis, city, application uncertain, pos- 

 sibly referring to the many acute leaflets. ) 



1. 0. occidentalis C. & R. Plants 2 to 3% feet high; stem simple or little 

 branched ; fascicled roots fusiform-fleshy ; leaves simply pinnate, long-petioled, the 

 lower 1 to 2% feet long; leaflets 5 to 13, orbicular or broadly ovate to linear-acu- 

 minate, serrate, entire at base, % to 3^ inches long; fruiting rays 1 to 3 inches 

 long ; fruit elliptic-obovate, 2^2 to 3 lines long. 



