PARSLEY FAMILY 



673 



Valley lands or moist bottoms, 5 to 1500 feet, sparingly naturalized from Eu- 

 rope : occasional along the coast ; more frequent in Southern California ; rare in the 

 Sierra Nevada foothills. July-Aug. 



Locs. — Bodega, Sonoma Co., Jepson 15,936; Sonoma, Jepson 16,552; Alameda, Jepson 

 14,202; Alvarado, Jepson 14,203; Monterey, Jepson; Los Angeles (Erythea 1:59); Kivera, 



Braunton 284; Claremont, 

 Chandler; San Bernardino (Zoe 

 2:27) ; near Smartsville, Yuba 

 Co., Jepson 16,763. 



Refs. — Daucus carota L. 

 Sp. PI. 242 (1753), type Euro- 

 pean ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 

 348 (1901), ed. 2, 293 (1911), 

 Man. 703 (1925). 



39. TORILIS L. 



Erect slender annuals 

 with hispidulose herbage, 

 bipinnate leaves and white 

 flowers in subcapitate um- 

 bels. Involucre and involu- 

 cels of linear bracts. Fruit 

 with the secondary ribs 

 more prominent than the 

 primary and bearing a 

 row of bristles or tuber- 

 cles ; bristles rough, hooked 

 at tip. Oil-tubes solitary, 

 2 on the commissure. — 

 Species 23, Europe, Asia 

 and Africa. (Derivation 

 unknown.) 



1. T. nodosa Gaertn. 

 Knotted Hedge Parsley. 

 (Fig. 277.) Erect, 7 to 13 

 inches high, the stems with 

 few branches, retrorsely 

 scabrous; leaves pinnate 

 (lower 3 to 5 inches long, 

 the upper successively shorter) ; leaflets bip innately dissected ; umbels scattered 

 along the stems opposite the leaves, on very short peduncles (1 or 2 lines long), 

 simple or with a supplementary short proliferous umbel ; fruits ll^ to 2 lines long, 

 those on the outside of the umbel with the exterior carpel densely covered with 

 hooked bristles, the inner carpels as well as the inner fruits warty and without 

 prickles. 



In shade on openly wooded hills, 5 to 2000 feet: naturalized from Europe, 

 widely distributed in California. Apr.-May, fr. June. 



Locs. — Oak Eun, Shasta Co., Baker ^ Nutting in 1894; Paskenta, sw. Tehama Co., Jepson 

 16,315 in 1932 ; Little Chico Creek, E. M. Austin in 1883 ; College City, Alice King in 1905 ; Vaca- 

 ville, Jepson 14,196 in 1891; French Camp, San Joaquin Co., Sanford in 1890-91; Auburn, 

 ShocUey in 1886; lone, Braunton in 1904; Gwin Mine, Calaveras Co., Jepson 1817 in 1902; 

 Burson, Calaveras Co., Jepson 9939 in 1923 ; Columbia, Jepson 6350 in 1915; Pine Log, Tuolumne 

 Co., A. L. Grant 705 in 1916; Sausalito, Bioletti in 1891; Berkeley, E. A. Walher in 1907; Mt. 

 Diablo, Jepson 9863 in 1923; Arroyo Grande, Alice King in 1895; Pt. Firmin near San Pedro, 

 A. Davidson in 1914. 



Fig. 277. 



ToEiLis NODOSA Gaertn. a, habit, X % ; &, f r., X 

 6; c, cross sect, of fr., X 12. 



