PARSLEY FAMILY 671 



Montane woods : coastal Southern California, 5500 to 7000 feet ; Coast Ranges, 

 50 to 2000 (or 4000) feet, from San Luis Obispo Co. to Siskiyou Co. ; Sierra Nevada, 

 4000 to 7100 feet, from Tulare Co. to Modoc Co. Apr., fr. July -Aug. 



Locs. — S. Cal. : Stonewall Mine, Cuyamaca Mts., Parish 4421 ; Saunders Mdw., San Jacinto 

 Mts., C. V. Meyer 188; San Bernardino Mts. (PI. World 20:247) ; San Antonio Mts. (PI. World 

 22:111); Eock Creek, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 491. Coast Eanges: Lopez Canon, San Luis 

 Obispo Co., Unangst 666; Big Creek, Santa Lucia Mts., K. Brandegee ; Soquel Creek, Santa Cruz 

 Mts., Jepson 14,255; Mt. Diablo, Jepson 14,254; Mt. Tamalpais, Jepson 14,257; St. Helena, 

 Jepson; Comptche, Mendocino Co., H. A. Walker 369; Eed Mountain Creek, nw. Mendocino Co., 

 Jepson 9419; Bull Creek, Humboldt Co., Jepson 16,419; Eureka, Tracy 2464; Willow Creek, 

 Trinity Eiver, Tracy 3322 ; Quartz Valley, Siskiyou Co., Butler 1453. Sierra Nevada: Old Colony 

 Mill, Tulare Co., Jepson 637; Huntington Lake, Jepson 13,074; Clover Mdw., Madera Co., 

 Kennedy; Calaveras Big Trees, A. L. Grant; Eagle Mdws., South Fork Middle Stanislaus Eiver, 

 A. L. Grant 373; Silver Creek, Eldorado Co., Kennedy 56; Eich Pt., Middle Fork Feather Eiver, 

 Jepson 10,614; Pioneer sta.. North Fork Yuba Eiver, Jepson 16,824; Blue Lake, s. Warner Mts., 

 L. S. Smith 1003 ; Medicine Lake, e. Siskiyou Co., M. S. Baher 505. 



Note on variation. — The herbage as to pubescence or the lack of it shows a range from thinly 

 hispidulose or pubescent to nearly glabrous. Individuals of undoubted Osmorrhiza nuda from 

 Marin Co. are quite as glabrous as the form of northern California which has been called Wash- 

 ingtonia divaricata C. & E. The pedicels in Osmorrhiza nuda vary in length but since the long- 

 pedicelled forms intergrade freely with the short-pedicelled form (Washingtonia brevipes C. & 

 E.), the latter is not considered significant. 



Eefs. — Osmorrhiza nuda Torr. Pac. E. Eep. 4^:93 (1857), type loc. Napa Valley, Bigelow; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 347 (1901), ed. 2, 292 (1911), Man. 702, fig. 682 (1925). Washingtonia 

 nuda Hel. Cat. N. Am. PI. 5 (1898), Urospermum 7iudiim Ktze. Eev. Gen. PI. 1:270 (1891). 

 Myrrhis nuda Greene, Man. Eeg. S. F. Bay 157 (1894). Washingtonia brevipes C. & E. Contrib. 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. 7:66 (1900), type loc. Mt. Shasta and vicinity. Palmer 2481. 0. brevipes Jep- 

 son, Madroiio 1:119 (1923), as synonym. 0. nuda var. brevipes Jepson I.e.; Man. 702 (1925) ; 

 this form varies in pubescence as in the species; its pedicels are short (1% to 3 lines) but they 

 overlap the pedicel-length of the species. Washingtonia divaricata Britt. ; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. 

 2:531 (1897), type from Ore., Nuttall. 0. nuda var. divaricata Jepson, Madroiio 1:119 (1923), 

 Man. 702 (1925) ; this is a nearly glabrous form but certain states of var. brevipes are also gla- 

 brous; as to the carpels they are no more beaked than in some specimens well representing the 

 species. 



3. 0. obtusa Fer. Snub Cicely. Resembles no. 2, but more slender, 1 to 1^2 

 feet high; herbage almost glabrous; rays widely spreading or the lateral deflexed; 

 fruiting pedicels 2 to 4, divaricate, 6 to 8 lines long; fruit 5 to 7i/^ lines long, obtuse 

 or slightly pointed at the tip, less bristly. 



Montane, 4000 to 5000 feet : Sierra Co. (Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7 :65) . East 

 to the Rocky Mts., north to British Columbia. 



Eefs. — Osmorrhiza obtusa Fer. Ehod. 4:154 (1902) ; Jepson, Man. 702 (1925). Washing- 

 tonia obtusa C. & E. Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7:64 (1900), type loc, Ishawood Creek, Wye, 

 Base 476, 



4. 0. occidentaUs Torr. Bald Cicely. Plants 2 to 3i/^ feet high ; herbage 

 minutely puberulent or nearly glabrous; leaflets oblong-lanceolate (or rarely 

 ovate), serrate or sparingly incised, 1 to 1^4 (or ^Vz) inches long, some of them 

 obliquely lobed on one side by a deep incision toward the base ; rays 5 to 12, in 

 fruit erect (1 to 21/4 inches long) and forming a close or compact umbel; pedicels 

 1% to 4 lines long ; bracts 1 or 2 or none ; stylopodium conical, about equaling the 

 style ; fruit 6 to 7 lines long, acutish at apex or obscurely short-beaked, with promi- 

 nent acute not bristly ribs ; seed-face very concave. 



Wooded slopes, 3000 to 8500 feet : Coast Ranges from Mendocino Co. to Siski- 

 you Co. ; Sierra Nevada from Madera Co. to Modoc Co. North to Alberta. June- 

 Aug., fr, Aug.-Oct. 



Locs. — Coast Eanges: Potter Valley, Purpus; Buck Mt., Humboldt Co., Tracy 4238; Shackel- 

 ford Creek, w. Siskiyou Co., Butler 1668. Sierra Nevada : San Joaquin Pass, Madera Co., Cong- 

 don; Bloody Canon, Mono Co., Chesnut 4" Brew; Eancheria Mt., Tuolumne Co., Jepson 4592; 

 Kennedy Lake, Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 202; Fallen Leaf Lake, Ottley 1169; Silver Creek, 

 Eldorado Co., Kennedy 72; Summit sta., Nevada Co., Jepson 14,258; Webber Lake, S. B. Doten; 

 Morgan, Tehama Co., Hall ^ BahcocTc 4408a; Eagle Peak, Warner Mts., Jepson 7960. 



