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Butte Co, Cal. Quintin? 

 Humboldt and Butte Co; SD mesas! 



near Quintin! distributed as E. petio- 



latum. 



ERYNGIUM PETIOLATUM Hook. 

 Hooker, Fl Bor Am 1:259 (1834). 

 'E. petiolatum juncifolium G, Am 

 ac pr 8:385 (1872). 

 Throughout Cal, mostly in marshes. 

 Type locality: "Moist soils on the 

 plains of the Multnomak river," Ore 



(Doug-las)- As now understood, ex- 

 cluded from the Cal flora. 

 Eryiigium Parishii. 



Coulter and Rose, mon 57. 

 "Low, much branched at base, the 

 .slender sts erect or spreading, 1-4 dm 

 long; basal Ivs from simple to pin- 

 nate, the blades or .segs from lacini- 

 ate-toothed to cleft, tapering into a 

 long more or less spinosely-toothed 

 petiole; infl beginning near the base 

 and diffusely branching, the hds on 

 very short peds, nearly globose, about 

 6 mm long, bracts very narrow and 

 rigid, longer than the hds, 12-18 mm 

 long, with a few spinose bristles at 

 base and not at all scarious margined 

 bractlets very narrow and rigid, 

 much longer than the fls, about 

 the size of the bracts, with shorT 

 scarious margin below (broadening 

 upward to a short lobe on each side), 

 at the top of which and just above 

 there may or may not be a few brist- 

 l(-s, the margined base inclosing the 

 fr and falling off with it; seps ovate, 

 f, p.rious-margined, 1.5 mm long, tap- 

 ering above into a cuspidate-bristly 

 tip; styles longer than the seps." 

 Type locality: Oceanside, SD Co (S 

 B Parish. 4436, in USNHb). Quintin! 

 SD mesa! San Lu's Obispo Co, Cal 

 (Lemmon). 



Genus SANICUL.A Tournefort. 

 L. sp pi 1:235 (1753). 

 Glabrous pers, with almost naked 

 or few-leaved sts, mostly palmate 

 (pinnate in a few sp) Ivs with more 

 or less pinnatifid or incised lobes, inv 

 .nd involucels present, and greenish-y 

 or p fls in ir compound few-rayed 

 v.mbels- Cx-teeth somewhat foliace- 

 crrs, persistent: fr subglobo.se, densely 

 cohered with hooked bristles or tub- 

 rreu.late: carpel with neither ribs nor 

 s'renir-therrng cells: stylopodium 0: 

 oil tubes mostly large, 5(3 dorsal and 



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2 commissural), or 3 to many irreg- 

 ularly disurbed: sd face from 

 plane to deeply concave or sulcate. 

 SANICULA MENZIESII Hook. & Arp. 



H & A, bot Beechey 142 (1832). 



S. nudicaulis H & A, bot Beechey 

 347 (1840). 



St solitary, erect, 3-10.5 dm high, 

 branching; Ivs round-cordate, 5-10 

 cm broad, very deeply 3-5-lobed, the 

 broad segs sharply toothed or some- 

 what cleft, the teeth bristle-tipped; 

 upper Ivs more narrowly lobed and 

 laciniately toothed; umbel with 3 or 

 4 slender rays, inv of 2 or 3 sm If- 

 like bracts, and involucels of 6-8 sm 

 entire bractlets; fls y, the sterile ones 

 short-pediceled, fr sessile, but dis- 

 tinctly stipitate, obovate, 2-4 mm 

 long, covered with strong bristles, sd 

 face sulcate. 



Type locality: not stated (north- 

 west coast of Am, fide Hooker). BC, 

 Wash. Cal, Baja (Or). 

 British Co : umbia to SD! 

 Sanicula ai'guta Greene. 



"Sts more or less branching, 1.5- 

 4.5 dm h'jrh, from a thickened rt- 

 stock; Ivs palmately 5-parted, the 

 middle division elongated and distant, 

 all the divisions more or less pinnate- 

 y lotaed and toothed, decurrent upon 

 the rachis, form'ng a broad toothed 

 wing; teeth spinosely pointed; umbel 

 3-5-rayed, with inv of If-like bractets; 

 fk y, the sterile ones on pedicels 3-4 

 mm long; fr obovate, tapering into 

 a stipitate base, somewhat naked be- 

 Icw, more bristly above, 6 mm long." 

 Coulter and Rose, mon 36. 



Type locality: hills near SD (C. G. 

 Pringle, 1882). .Type in USNHb- 



SANICULA LANCINIATA Hook. & Arp. 

 Oregon to Baja! Quad; Cruz; Cat. 



H & A, bot Beechey 347 (1840). 



Usually slender plants, 1-6 dm 

 high; Ivs broadly ovate to orbicular 

 in outline, from slightly 3-lobed to 

 deeply 3-parted, the divisions from 

 toothed to laciniately l^ut, with 

 bristle-tipped teeth; umbel 3-5-rayed, 

 'with inv of If-like bracts, and in- 

 voh'^els of srr\ lanceolate apiculate 

 bractlets; fls y; fr orbicular, not at all 

 stipitate, 3 mm long. 



Type locality: Cal (Douglas). 

 Mendocino Co to Baj (Or). 



