PARSLEY FAMILY 



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1. S. arctopoides H. & A. Footsteps-of-spring. (Fig. 273.) Prostrate or 

 decumbent, the plants 4 to 8 inches wide, conspicuous because of the yellowish 

 foliage ; main stem from a taproot, very short, 1/2 to 1 (or 2) inches long, bearing 

 a tuft of leaves and several divergent naked branches often longer than the leaves, 

 each branch bearing an umbel of 1 to 4 rays ; rays % to 6 inches long ; leaf -blades % 

 to 1% inches long, ly? to 3 inches wide, palmately parted into 3 divisions which are 

 again cleft, the whole margin laciniately cut into slender unequal teeth, almost as if 

 fringed, or again, the lanceolate spreading segments subentire ; petioles 14 to 

 3 inches long; bracts similar to the leaf- 

 blades ; heads 3 lines wide, surrounded by 

 conspicuous involucels of 8 to 13 oblong en- 

 tire bractlets 5 to 7 lines long, or 4 or 5 much 

 shorter than the others ; flowers yellow ; fruit 

 1 to 11/^ lines long, naked at base, with strong 

 bristles above. 



Sandy hills or flats, 5 to 700 feet : Hum- 

 boldt Bay to Monterey. Mar.-Apr. 



Field note. — The staminate flowers are more 

 numerous in the head than the pistillate and some- 

 what more disposed toward the margin. The bract- 

 lets are obscurely in two circles, the larger bractlets 

 8 or 9, the smaller ones 4 or 5. 



Locs. — Samoa, Humboldt Bay, Tracy 1018; 

 Mendocino, H. E. Brown 734 ; betw. Stewarts Pt. 

 and Sea View, Sonoma Co., M. S. Baker 6; Olema, 

 Marin Co., Jepson 14,177 ; Lake Merced, San Fran- 

 cisco, Tracy 1777 ; Lake San Andreas, Jepson 9535 ; 

 Burlingame, San Mateo Co., Inez Bay Smith; Santa 

 Cruz; San Juan grade, Ferris 8027; Monterey, 

 Jepson 2989. 



Eefs. — Sanicula arctopoides H. & A. Bot. 

 Beech. 141 (1832), tjTpe from Cal., Lay # Collie; 

 Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:258, pi. 91 (1834) ; Jepson, 

 Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 344 (1901), ed. 2, 290 (1911), Man. 

 698, fig. 676 (1925) ; Wolff in Engler, Pflzr. 42^8:71, 

 fig. 12 (1913). 



Fig. 273. Sanicula arctopoides H. & 

 A. a, habit, X Vi', J), head, X 1 ; c, sterile 

 fl., X 5 ; d, fruit, X 5 ; e, cross sect, of 

 carpel, X 5. 



2. S. menziesii H. & A. Gamble Weed 

 Stem 1 to 3 1/2 feet high, from a stoutish tap- 

 root, simple below, paniculately branching above, leafy; leaf -blades round-cordate 

 in outline, 1 to 3^4 inches wide, palmately and deeply 3 to 5-lobed, the broad seg- 

 ments sharply lobed or incised, with bristle-tipped teeth; petioles 1 to 8 inches 

 long; rays few, i^ to 2 inches long; bracts small, leaf -like; bractlets 6 to 8, small, 

 entire; flowers yellow, the sterile ones short-pediceled or nearly sessile; fruits 

 covered with strong bristles, II/2 lines long, distinctly stipitate, 4 to 9 in each head, 

 at length divergent. 



Shady woods of foothills or valley flats, 5 to 1500 (or 3200) feet : cismontane 

 Southern California ; Sierra Nevada from Tulare Co. to Shasta Co. ; Sacramento 

 Valley ; Coast Ranges from San Luis Obispo Co. to Humboldt Co. North to British 

 Columbia. Apr.-May, fr. June-July. 



Locs.— Cismontane S. Cal.: Descanso, San Diego Co., T. Brandegee ; Eamona, T. Brandegee ; 

 Waterman Canon, San Bernardino Mts., Parish; Monrovia Canon, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 431; 

 Los Alisos Canon, Santa Monica Mts., Epling ; Ojai Valley, Huihy 3; Santa Barbara, Nuttall; 

 Lompoc, Santa Barbara Co., Munz 10,254; Ft. Tejon, Davy 2363. Sierra Nevada: Barnafee 

 Flat, Tulare Co., W. Fry 128; Mariposa Co. (Zoe 3:29) ; Tuttletown, Tuolumne Co., Tracy 5690; 

 Gwin Mine, Calaveras Co., Jepson 1764 ; Willow Sprs. sta., Amador Co., Jepson 15,231 ; New- 

 castle, Placer Co., M. E. P. Ames. Sacramento Valley: South Peak, Marysville Buttes, Jepson 

 14,188; Vina, Tehama Co., Heller 11,332; Crane Creek, w. Tehama Co., Jepson; Bedding, Blanlcin- 

 ship. Coast Ranges: San Luis Obispo, Boadhouse ; Pacific Grove, Heller 6824; Stanford, C. F. 



