PARSLEY FAMILY 667 



more or less united ; flowers yellow, the sterile on pedicels 1 to 1% lines long ; fruit 

 tuberculate, the tubercles gradually attenuate into a thick-subulate bristle hooked 

 at tip. 



Openly wooded slopes, 5000 to 6000 feet : Sierra Nevada from Modoc Co. to 

 Mariposa Co. ; Coast Ranges from Siskiyou Co. to Humboldt Co. ; Tehachapi Mts. ; 

 San Bernardino Mts. Apr.-June. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada: Deep Creek, Warner Mts., e. Modoc Co., L. S. Smith 1124; Forest- 

 dale, sw. Modoc Co., Baker 4' Nutting; Sierra Valley, Lemmon ; Prosser Creek near Truckee, 

 Sonne; Tahoe, Placer Co., Sonne; Mariposa Co. (Zoe 3:319). Coast Ranges: Humbug divide, 

 Siskiyou Co., Butler 623 ; Devils Backbone, sw. Siskiyou Co., Jepson 2068 ; "Willow Creek, n. 

 Humijoldt Co., Tracy 7448 ; Red Rock, ne. Mendocino Co., Cronemiller 609. Tehachapi Mts. : Bear 

 Mt., Jepson 7176. San Bernardino Mts.: Long Pt., Parish. 



Var. glauca Jepson. Leaves glaucous, very finely divided. — Rocky slopes: Tulare Co. (Mid- 

 dle Tule River, Purpus 1804) and Kern Co. (Piute Pass). 



Refs. — Sanicula nevadensis Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 11:139 (1876), type from Plumas Co., 

 M. E. P. Ames, Lemmon; Jepson, Man. 700 (1925). Var. glauca Jepson, Madrono 1:113 (1923), 

 type loc. Piute Pass, Kern Co., Purpus 5093 ; Man. 700 (1925). 



8. S. septentrionalis Greene. Mountain Sanicle. Plants erect, 6 to 12 inches 

 high ; taproot thickened but not tuberous ; leaf -blades suborbicular in outline, % 

 to 1 (or 11/2 ) inches long, pinnately divided into 5 divisions, the divisions pinnately 

 divided or toothed; petioles % to 1 (or 2^/2) inches long; peduncles few, divari- 

 cately spreading, scattered along the stem; rays 3 or 4, 2 to 7 lines long; heads 

 11/2 to 2 lines long; flowers whitish; fruit 2 lines long, covered with subglobose 

 tubercles, the tubercles abruptly tipped with a slender uncinate bristle. 



Moist wooded slopes or rocky summits, 5000 to 8000 feet : Sierra Nevada from 

 Nevada Co. to Modoc Co. ; upper Sacramento Valley ; high North Coast Ranges 

 from Trinity Co. to Siskiyou Co. North to British Columbia. June. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada: Mineral, Tehama Co., Jepson 12,327; Big Valley Mts., Modoc Co., 

 BaTcer 4- Nutting. North Coast Ranges: South Yollo Bolly, Jepson 14,187; Trinity Summit, 

 Jepson 2046 ; Dorleska, Trinity Co., Hall 8587 ; Shackelford Creek, Siskiyou Co., Butler 54, 1778. 

 Some collections made in Shasta Co., on the upper Sacramento River (Anderson, Alice King ; 

 Coram, BlanMnship) are from extremely low altitudes (400 to 700 feet) and are of doubtful 

 status ; for this and for other reasons the content of this group needs further investigation. 



Var. nemoralis Jepson comb. n. Peduncles much elongated (4 to 11 inches long), disposed 

 to be sub-basal ; fruit pustules subglobose, ending in a bristle about as long. — Sierra Nevada, 4700 

 to 7000 feet: Blue Caiion, Placer Co., H. A. Wallcer 1239; Mariposa Big Trees, Bolander ; betw. 

 Colony Mill and Marble Fork, Tulare Co., Jepson 656. 



Refs. — Sanicula septentrionalis Greene, Erythea 1:6 (1893), type loc. Chase River, Van- 

 couver Isl., Macoun; Wolff in Engler, Pflzr. 4^:74, fig. 14 (1913) ; Jepson, Man. 700 (1925). 

 iS. divaricata Greene, Erythea 3:64 (1895), type loc. Castle Peak, Nevada Co., Greene. Var. 

 NEMOEALis Jcpson. S. nemoralis Greene, Erythea 1:6 (1893), type loc. Mariposa Big Trees, 

 Bolander. 



9. S. bipinnata H. & A. Poison Sanicle. Stem from an elongated tuber- 

 like root, erect, usually simple below, % to 2 feet high ; herbage with a strongly 

 aromatic odor ; leaves chiefly basal, 2 to 7 inches long, the blades twice or thrice 

 pinnate, the ultimate divisions obovate or oblong, 3 to 4 lines long, not decurrent ; 

 umbel with 3 or 4 rays and leaf -like bracts ; flowers yellow, the heads 2 lines wide, 

 and subtended by several small more or less united bractlets ; fruit tuberculate, the 

 tubercles tipped with stout hooked bristles. 



Openly wooded low hills and valley flats, 20 to 2200 feet : Sierra Nevada foot- 

 hills from Butte Co. to Kern Co. ; Sacramento Valley ; Coast Ranges from Hum- 

 boldt Co. to San Luis Obispo Co. ; south to the San Gabriel Valley. May. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada foothills: Little Chico Creek, Butte Co., B. M. Austin; Oroville, Heller 

 10,707; Cabbage Patch, Yuba Co., Jepson 14,180; lone, Amador Co., Jepson 15,209; Calaveritas 

 Creek, Calaveras Co., Tracy 5680; Mormon Bar, Mariposa Co., Jepson 12,770; Kaweah, Eastwood. 

 Sacramento Valley: Anderson, Alice King; College City, Colusa Co., Alice King; Mills sta., n. 

 Sacramento Co., Jepson 15,732. Coast Ranges: Buck Mt., Humboldt Co., Tracy 2740; Araquipa 

 Hills, w. Solano Co., Jepson 14,178; Mt. Diablo, Jepson 10,695; Stanford, C. F. Baker 496; Loma 



