PARSLEY FAMILY 



661 



Locs. — Oceanside, Parish 4436 ; San Diego, Jepson 1599. 



Eefs. — Eryngium parishii C. & K. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7:57 (1900), type loc. Ocean- 

 side, w. San Diego Co., Parish 4436. E. jepsonii var. parishii Jepson, Madrono 1:107 (1923), 

 Man. 696 (1925). 



13. E. castrense Jepson. Miners Eryngo. Stem stout, very erect, simple 

 below, branched above, l^/^ to 1% feet high; cauline leaves laciniately divided into 

 rather remote very narrow 



segments 14 to 1 line wide, 

 these again cleft or toothed, 

 the margin of the divisions 

 and the ligulate rachis mark- 

 edly or even densely spinose 

 or spinulose ; leaves at the 

 upper forks bracteose-folia- 

 ceous, pinnately spinose-clef t, 

 somewhat recurving, 1^4 to 

 11/2 inches long ; heads mostly 

 short-peduncled or subsessile 

 in the forks, 4 to 5 lines high, 

 once to twice exceeded by the 

 bractlets; foliaceous bracts 

 at base of peduncles often 

 conspicuous ; bracts moder- 

 ately rigid, pinnately spiny- 

 toothed except toward tip, at 

 base more or less scarious- 

 margined and densely spi- 

 nose dorsally, % to 1 inch 

 long; bractlets similar but 

 with broadly scarious-mar- 

 gined base which encloses the 

 fruit. 



Summer beds of former 

 vernal pools, 1000 to 1500 

 feet : Sierra Nevada foothills 

 from Amador Co. to Mari- 

 posa Co. May-June, fr. Aug. 



Locs.- — -lone, Amador Co., 

 Braunton 1014 ; Copperopolis, Cal- 

 averas Co., Tracy 5621 ; Chinese 

 Camp ; Sebastopol, Mariposa Co., 

 Congdon (reduced form). 



Var. vallicola Jepson. Bracts and bractlets shorter and less markedly spinescent, in this 

 character approaching E. vaseyi. — Adobe soil of rolling plains (50 to 500 feet) bordering the 

 Sierra Nevada foothills from Tehama Co. to San Joaquin Co. 



Locs.^ — Pine Creek road sta., Tehama Co., Jepson 12,349; Pentz, Butte Co., Heller 11,472; 

 Cana (2^/2 mi- ne.), Butte Co., Jepson 16,616; Chieo (e. of), R. M. Austin 826 (leaves more 

 coarsely laciniate and less spiny) ; Lincoln, Placer Co., Jepson 10,650 ; Escalon, se. San Joaquin Co. 



Eefs. — Eryngium castrense Jepson, Madi-ono 1:108, fig. 3 (1923), type loc. Chinese Camp, 

 Tuolumne Co., Jepson 6319; Man. 697, fig. 675 (1925). Var. vallicola Jepson, Madrono 1:108 

 (1923), type loc. Escalon, se. San Joaquin Co., Jepson 14,278; Man. 697 (1925). 



14. E. globosum Jepson. Ball Eryngo. (Fig. 272.) Stems 1 to several from 

 base, branching above, 14 to 20 inches high ; basal leaves pinnately divided into 

 narrow distant segments, these more or less spinose-toothed or cleft, the petioles 

 spinose-winged and at base somewhat clasping, the whole leaf 5 inches long ; cauline 

 leaves similar but smaller with short spinosely winged petiole, the uppermost more 





d 



Fig. 272. Eryngium globosum Jepson. a, habit, X % ; 

 b, bractlet, X 4; c, fr., X Q; d, cross sect, of carpel, X 10. 



