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UMBELLIFERAE 



Low adobo Hats burilerin*,' salt marshes, to 20 loot : east and west sides of 

 San Francisco Bay south of the Golden Gate. Apr. 



Lot's. — Potrero, San Francisco, E. Cannon ; Alameda, Greene. 



Kefs. — Sanicula maritima Kcll.; \Vats. Bot. Cal. 2:451 (1880), type loc. about San Fran- 

 cisco, Kellogg; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 345 (1901), ed. 2, 291 (1911), Man. 699 (1925). 



6. S. laciniata H. & A. Coast Sanicle. (Fig. 275.) Plants 6 to 13 inches 

 high ; stem from a medium taproot, the branches few and disposed to diverge ; 

 leaves mainly basal, the blades 

 orbicular in outline, i/o to 1 

 inch long, palmately 8-eleft or 

 -parted, the divisions incisely 

 lobed or laciniate with spread- 

 ing teeth, the petioles 1 to 2 

 inches long ; upper leaves and 

 foliaceous involucres similar 

 but reduced ; umbel with 2 to 5 

 unequal rays (% to li/. inches 

 long) or 1 or 2 of the rays again 

 umbellate ; flowers yellow, sub- 

 tended by an involucel of ob- 

 long-ovate or lanceolate bract- 

 lets 1 line long ; sterile flowers 

 long-pediceled ; fruit prickly, 

 somewhat naked below, l^/^ 

 lines long. 



Openly wooded slopes or 

 flats, 5 to 1000 feet : coastal 

 hills from Humboldt Co. to 

 Monterey Co. Apr. 



Locs. — Miranda, South Fork 

 Eel Kiver, Tracy 6950 ; Garberville, 

 Tracy 6163 ; Navarro, Mendocino 

 Co., Edith Byxhee (blades of earlier 

 leaves sometimes circular-cordate, 

 nearly entire) ; Franz Valley grade, 

 upper Napa Valley, Jepson 14,186 ; 

 Mt. Tamalpais, Jepson 1191 ; Stan- 

 ford, C. F. BaJcer; Monterey, Jep- 

 son 2988. 



Var. serpentina Jepson. Leaves 

 1 to 1% inches long, palmately 3- 

 parted or -divided, the lobes pin- 

 nately parted into often remote 

 lanceolate segments, these entire or 

 laciniately toothed. — Monterey Co. 

 (Pacific Grove, Ueller 6479) to San 

 Mateo Co. (Portola, Elmer 4498) and Marin Co. (Liberty, Chesnut $• Brew). 



Kefs. — Sanicula laciniata H. & A. Bot. Beech. 347 (1840), type from Cal., Douglas; Jep- 

 son, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 345 (1901), ed. 2, 291 (1911), Man. 700 (1925). Var. serpentina Jepson, 

 Madrono 1:113 (1923), Man. 700 (1925). S. serpentina Elmer, Bot. Gaz. 41:312 (1906), type 

 loc. Portola, San Mateo Co., Elmer 4498. 



7. S. nevadensis Wats. Sierra Sanicle. Low plants, with several spreading 

 peduncles 1 to 6 (or 9) inches long arising basally or from the very short (1 to 2 

 inches long) stem ; leaf -blades ternate, % to 1 inch long, the divisions with distinct 

 petiolules, oblong-ovate to suborbicular in outline, 3 to 5-lobed with the segments 

 again toothed or incised; petioles I/2 to 2^/2 inches long; rays 3 to 10 in an umbel, 

 1 line to 1 inch long, the bracts pinnatifid, leaf -like ; bractlets small, oblong, acute, 



Fig. 275. Sanicula laciniata H. & A, a, habit, X % ; &, 

 fr., X 6; c, cross sect, of carpel, X 9. 



