PARSLEY FAMILY 669 



1. A. vulgaris Pers. Bur Chervil. Slender, li/o to 3 feet high; rays 3 to 6, 

 1/^ to 1 inch long ; pedicels 1 to 3 lines long ; fruit 1% lines long. 



European weed, occasionally introduced about towns in the Coast Range val- 

 leys. Apr. 



Locs. — Cloverdale, Tracy 5799 in 1921; St. Helena, Clara A. Bunt in 1908; Jolon, K. Brande- 

 gee in 1909. 



Eefs. — Antheiscus vulgaris Pers. Syn. 1:320 (1805) ; Jepson, Man. 701 (1925). Scandix 

 anthriscus L. Sp. PI. 257 (1753), type European. A. anthriseus Karst. Deutsch. Fl. 857 (1880-83). 



36. SCANDIX L. 



Annuals with dissected decompound leaves. Flowers white, polygamous, in 

 compound umbels. Rays commonly 2, rarely 1 or 3. Involucre none or of one 

 bract. Involucels of several bractlets. Staminate flowers with stamens and green 

 disk, and occasionally with short styles ; pistillate flowers with long styles, purple 

 disk and with or without stamens. Petals unequal, the outer larger. Fruit linear, 

 flattened laterally, muriculate, prolonged into a beak several times longer than the 

 body. Ribs prominent. Oil-tubes none or obscure. Seed-face sulcate. — Species 

 15, Europe, Asia and north Africa. (The ancient Greek name for the chervil.) 



1. S. pecten-veneris L. Shepherd's Needle. Erect, simple or branching, 5 

 to 16 inches high, somewhat hispidulous ; leaves 2 or 3 times pinnately dissected 

 into linear acute segments less than % line wide ; bractlets 2 or 3-toothed at apex 

 or entire ; rays I/2 to 1 inch long ; pedicels very short ; body of fruit 4 lines long, 

 bearing a straight flattish beak 1% inches long, its edges hispidulous. 



Naturalized from Europe in valleys and foothills, 5 to 500 feet : San Francisco 

 Bay region to Humboldt Co. Apr., fr. June. 



Loes. — Garberville, s. Humboldt Co., Tracy 6342 ; Santa Eosa, Eastwood in 1893 ; Oak Knoll 

 sta., Napa Valley, Jepson 14,242 in 1893 ; Napa Jet., Jepson 9625 in 1922 ; Olema, Jepson in 1910, 

 Berkeley, Jepson in 1891. 



Eefs. — Scandix pecten-veneris L. Sp. PI. 256 (1753), type European; Jepson, PI. W, Mid. 

 Cal. 346 (1901), ed. 2, 292 (1911), Man. 701, fig. 681 (1925). 



37. OSMORRHIZA Raf. Sweet Cicely 



Perennials with thick aromatic roots. Leaves mostly basal, 2 to 3 times ternately 

 compound. Flowers white, in compound umbels. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Involucre 

 reduced or obsolete. Involucels present or none. Fruit linear or linear-oblong, 

 rather prominently attenuate at base, glabrous and smooth or bristly along the ribs ; 

 carpels pentagonal in cross section, with equal ribs. Oil-tubes none in mature fruit. 

 Seed-face concave to very deeply sulcate. — Species 13, Asia and North and South 

 America. (Greek osme, odor, and rhiza, root.) 



Fruit with bristly ribs; carpel long-attenuate at base (except no. 1). 



Involucels of several bractlets 1. 0. brachypoda. 



Involucels none. 



Fruit beaked or constricted at apex 2. 0. nuda. 



Fruit obtuse at apex _.3. 0. oitusa. 



Fruit-ribs not bristly; carpel not attenuate (mostly obtuse) at base. 



Fruiting rays usually erect, forming a compact cluster of fruits ; leaflets oblong-lanceolate.... 



4. 0. occidentalis. 

 Fruiting rays spreading, forming a loose umbel; leaflets ovate 5. 0. iolanderi. 



1. 0. brachypoda Torr. California Cicely. (Fig. 276.) Stems erect, II/2 

 to 1% feet high ; herbage hirsutulose or the stems and petioles with short spreading 

 hairs, or the stems glabrous; leaflets ovatish, coarsely laciniate-cleft and ser- 

 rate, mucronulate, % to 2 inches long ; umbel 1 to 5-rayed, the fruiting rays 2 to 4 



