670 



UMBELLIFERAE 



inches lon^; podioels 1 line loii^'; involucre mostly nhsiMit ; involueels present, their 

 braetlets linear, aeuminate, in fruit usually spreading or often closely reflexed; 

 fruit 7 to 9 lines long, the ribs armed with bristles pointed upward ; seed-face deeply 

 concave or even involute. 



Shady woods : Sierra Nevada, 4000 to 8500 feet, from Sierra Co. to Tulare Co. ; 

 South Coast Ranges, 800 to 3200 feet, from Santa Clara Co. to San Luis Obispo 

 Co. ; coastal Southern Califor- 

 nia, 1000 to 3500 feet. Apr., 

 fr. June-July. 



Loos. — Sierra Nevada : Do^vnie- 

 ville (Pac. R. Rep. 4^93); Hazel 

 Green, Mariposa Co., Jepson 14,251 ; 

 Huntington Lake, Fresno Co., A. 

 L. Grant 1173; Cedar Creek, North 

 Fork Kaweah River, Jepson 607; 

 Bear Creek, North Fork Tule River, 

 T. Brandegee. Tehachapi Mts.: 

 Keene sta., Hastings 4' Darland; 

 Bisses sta., Dudley 473; Ft. Tejon, 

 Davy 2337. South Coast Ranges: 

 Alum Rock, Mt. Hamilton Range, 

 Pendleton 668; Big Sur, Santa 

 Lucia Mts., Davy 7432 ; betw. King 

 City and Jolon, Eastwood; upper 

 Nacimiento River, Jepson 1693. S. 

 Cal. : Santa Inez Mts., Dunn; Ma- 

 tilija Canon, Ojai Valley, Huiiy 

 17 ; Arroyo Seco, San Gabriel Mts., 

 Peirson 451; Millards Canon, San 

 Gabriel Mts., Peirson 135 ; San Ber- 

 nardino, Parish; Mill Creek Canon, 

 San Bernardino Mts., Jepson 5572 ; 

 Palomar Mt., Jepson 1527; Witch 

 Creek, San Diego Co., Alderson 432 ; 

 Cuyamaca, Abrams 3838; Laguna 

 Mts., San Diego Co., T. Brandegee. 



Var. fraterna Jepson var. n. 

 Leaves, especially beneath, hirsutu- 

 lose, the stems and petioles similarly 

 hirsutulose with short spreading 

 hairs. — (Folia hirsutulosa, praeci- 

 pue infra, caules petiolaque hirsutu- 

 losa similiter cum pilis patentis). — 

 Arroyo Seco, San Gabriel Mts., 2000 

 feet, Peirson 451a (type). 



Refs. — OSMORRHIZA BRACHY- -p- gyg^ OSMORRHIZA BRACHYPODA Torr. O, leaf X 



PODA Torr. ; Dur. Jour. Acad. Phila. i/ , ^ „^u„i s/- i/ ^ ^„ s^ o /t „>«„ c«^+ ..* „ ^«i 



ser. 2, 3:89 (1855), type loc. Deer ^\l' "°^^'^' X % ; c, fr., X 3; d, cross sect, of carpel, 



Creek near Nevada City, Pratt en; 



Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 347 (1901), 



ed. 2, 292 (1911), Man. 702 (1925). Washingtonia Irochypoda Hel. Cat. N. Am. PI. 5 (1898) ; 



C. & R. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7:63, fig. 7 (1900). Var. fraterna Jepson. 



2. 0. nuda Torr. Wood Cicely. Stem glabrous, ll^ to 2l^ feet high; leaves 

 5 to 11 inches long, the cauline much reduced ; stems and petioles with short stiff 

 spreading hairs, the leaflets puberulent or hispidulous to glabrous or nearly so; 

 leaflets ovate or elliptical, 3-lobed or -cleft and serrate, often narrowly or broadly 

 cuneate at the entire base, % to 2% inches long; rays 3 or 4 (to 6), 2 to 4 inches 

 long; pedicels 3 to 11 lines long; involueels none; fruit 5 to 8 lines long, attenuate 

 into a slender base \i to ^o as long as the body, and at apex more or less contracted 

 into a beak % to 1 line long ; attenuate base of fruit very bristly, the body upwardly 

 bristly on the ribs ; seed-face sulcate. 



