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UMBELLIFERAE 



Balcer 714 ; Pine Canon, Mt. Diablo, Chandler 952 ; Berkeley, Jcpson 0225 ; South Fork Mill Creek, 

 Miyaknia Kanpo, Jrpson 3019; Bull Creek, Humboldt Co., Jcpson 10,457; Buck Mt., Humboldt 

 Co., Tracy 2748. 



The following are minor variations: Var. nudicauus Jcpson. Branches about 10, sub-basal, 

 somewhat scapiform; leaves long-petiolcd, thinnish, less deeply parted, sinuses more nearly closed 

 and the segments loss lobed.^ — ^Coast Ranges, Duuglas ; Amador Co., 900 feet, Hansen 1451. Var, 

 pi:data Jepson. Robust, 3 to 5 feet high; leaves thickish, dark green, pedatcly divided into 



cuneatc segments (especially the 

 cauline), 3 to 4 inches broad, the 

 teeth bristle-tipped. — North Coast 

 Ranges: Elk Mt., n. Lake Co., Tracy 

 2274; Calistoga. Var. foliacea Jep- 

 son. Low but very leafy, the brac- 

 teal leaves very large. — San Fran- 

 cisco Bay, Hartweg 199; Kelsey- 

 ville, Lake Co. 



Refs. — Sanicuua menziesii H. 

 & A. Bot. Beech. 142 (1832), type 

 from Cal., Lay <$■ Collie; Hook. Fl. 

 Bor. Am. 1:258, t. 90 (1834) ; Jep- 

 son, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 345 (1901), ed. 

 2, 290 (1911), Man. 698, fig. 677 

 ( 1925 ). S. crassicaulis var. menziesii 

 Wolff; Engler,Pflzr.4"':70 (1913). 

 Var. nudicaulis Jepson, Fl.W. Mid. 

 Cal. ed. 2, 290 (1911), Man. 699 

 (1925). S. nudicaulis H. & A. I.e. 

 347 (1840), type from Cal., Doug- 

 las. Var. pedata Jepson, Madroiio 

 1:111 (1923), type loc. Calistoga, 

 Jepson 14,189; Man, 699 (1925). 

 Var. foliacea Jepson, Madroiio 1: 

 111 (1923), type loc. Kelseyville, 

 Lake Co., Irwin 127; Man. 699 

 (1925), 



3. S, arguta Greene. Lit- 

 tle-Jim Sanicle, (Fig. 274.) 

 Stems sparingly branched, 

 from the crown of a thickened 

 taproot, 8 to 13 (or 18) inches 

 high ; leaves mainly basal, the 

 blades 1 to 3^4 inches long, 

 palmately 5 to 7-divided, the 

 middle division largest and 

 often distant, the lower pair 

 of divisions smaller than the lateral pair, all more or less pinnately parted or cleft 

 and toothed and each decurrent to the base, forming a broad toothed wing ; ultimate 

 segments 2 to 3 lines wide, darkly reticulate-venulose beneath ; midribs and upper 

 side of petioles minutely or slenderly glandular-papillate ; petioles 2 to 5 inches 

 long ; cauline and bracteal leaves reduced or sometimes large ; rays 3 to 6, subequal, 

 1 to 4 inches long ; flowers yellow, the heads 2 to 4 lines broad ; bractlets membran- 

 ous, oblong, acute, not exceeding the heads ; fruit prickly, 2i/2 lines long, stipitate. 

 Sandy flats, 5 to 2000 feet : cismontane Southern California from San Luis 

 Obispo Co. to San Diego Co. Mar.-Apr. 



Locs. — Cuesta Pass, Santa Lucia Mts., Jepson 11,965 ; Las Cruces, Santa Inez Mts., Jepson 

 11,918; Santa Barbara, Elmer 3930; Pelican Bay, Santa Cruz Isl., Jepson 12,120; Saugus, 

 Davy; Ojai Valley, Hubby 14; Santa Susanna Pass, Jepson 8467; Santa Monica, Barber 115; 

 Pasadena, Geo. B. Grant 1174a; Santa Catalina Isl., Blanche Trash; San Clemente Isl., Mung 

 6659; Escondido, Abrams 3353; Ramona, Jepson 8522; Julian, e. San Diego Co., E. Brandegee; 

 Soledad Mt,, Lowell Sumner; El Cajon, T. Brandegee; San Diego, Jepson 6664. 



Fig. 274. Sanicula arguta Greene, a, habit, X ^ ; &, 

 fr., X 414 ; c, cross sect, of carpel, X TV^. 



