6 ERYTHEA, 
cuneate-obcordate, exceeding the calyx, white: stamens 10, 
all with oblong-petaloid white filaments, the alternate ones 
smaller. 
Southern flanks of Mt. Tamalpais, 1 June, 1892, ©. G. 
Michener. By the distinctly obcordate petals this becomes a 
notable accession to the Horkelia group of this genus. 
Sanicula nemoralis. Erect, rather slender, a foot high, 
from a perpendicular root: leaves mostly radical, bipinnately 
3 to 7-parted, the divisions decurrent upon the rachis as a 
narrow entire wing: the several ascending branches bearing 
compound umbels with elongated rays: flowers few in the 
head, yellow: fruit small, broader than long, the whole sur- 
face covered with uncinate prickles which are strongly 
fistulate-enlarged or inflated from the base to near the 
middle. 
My types of this are two good specimens collected by 
Bolander at the Big Trees and in the Yosemite Valley, and 
preserved in the herbarium of the University at Berkeley. 
I think these represent what has been called a yellow-flowered 
state of the Coast Range species, 5S. bipinnatifida; but they 
surely represent something as distinct as need be. 
Sanicula septentrionalis. Erect, slender, simple or 
sparingly branching, scarcely a foot high: leaves few and 
small (1 inch long); radical of rounded general outline (as 
broad as long), the ternate-lobed leaflets obovate; cauline 
relatively longer and of more deltoid outline: umbels small, 
of only 2 or 3 short slender simple rays: flowers yellow: 
fruit prickly throughout. 
Type, a plant from Vancouver Island, June 4, 1887, Macoun, 
distributed under the name S. Nevadensis; but that is a low 
and stout, almost diffuse plant, of totally different habit, and 
large angular much dissected foliage, to which such a plant 
as this can not be joined even as a variety, upon any recog- 
nized principles of phytography. 
Sanicula saxatilis. Stems many, depressed, a foot long, 
from a fleshy napiform root of the size of a walnut; leaves 
ternately pinnate, the ultimate Segments broad, coarsely 
