PARSLEY FAMILY I7I 



above, 1 to 3 ft. high, from a perennial aromatic root. Leaves 

 mostly basal, pubescent, palmately twice compound, each of 

 the main divisions with 3 leaflets; leaflets ovate, wedge- 

 shaped at base, lobed and toothed, 24 to 2 in. long. Flowers 

 white, in loose compound umbels, the pedicels without bracts 

 at base. Fruit linear, nearly 24 m - ^ong, bristly on the ribs, 

 the oil-tubes obscure. (Washingtonia brevipes C. & R.) — Com- 

 mon in shady woods. O. brachypoda Torr. is a similar plant 

 and with similarly bristly-ribbed fruits, but with conspicuous 

 bractlets at base of pedicels. It is also common, especially 

 in the Yosemite Valley and near Hetch Hetchy. O. occiden- 

 tal's Torr., our third species, is a larger plant, with mostly 

 larger leaves and fruits, the latter entirely glabrous. 



3. EULOPHUS. 



1. E. bolanderi C. & R. Glabrous perennial, 1 to 2 ft. 

 high, from a cluster of tuber-like roots, the nearly naked 

 stems bearing usually several long-peduncled compound um- 

 bels of small white flowers. Leaves 3 to 6 in. long, pinnately 

 compound (except the uppermost bract-like ones), the 

 numerous segments linear-filiform; petioles enlarged toward 

 the base. Bracts pale, lanceolate, slenderly acute. Fruit flat- 

 tened laterally, glabrous, % in. long. (Podosciadium bolanderi 

 Gray.) — First described from specimens collected by Bolan- 

 der on the State Geological Survey, 1873, on the "Mariposa 

 Trail, Yosemite"; common in our district. E. parishii C. & R., 

 which also occurs, has the same habit and general appear- 

 ance, but the leaves are with only 3 or 4 segments, these 

 lanceolate or broadly linear, the very slender petioles en- 

 larged only at the insertion on the stem, and the bracts few 

 or none. 



4. PODISTERA. 



1. P. nevadensis Wats. A dwarf stemless perennial, 1 or 

 2 in. high, minutely pubescent throughout. Leaves about % 

 in. long, pinnately parted. Flowers white or pinkish, in close 

 umbels. Fruit flattened laterally, elliptic-ovate, glabrous, the 

 ribs slender. — Known only from above timber-line on Mt. 

 Dana (type locality) and Mt. Warren. 



5. SELINUM. 



1. S. capitellatum Wats. A stout perennial, 1 to 5 ft. high, 



glabrous up to the flower-cluster. Leaves 1 or 2 ft. long, 



pinnately compound, the numerous toothed leaflets oblong or 



lanceolate and 1 to 3 in. long. Flowers white, in dense heads, 



