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SA7S.ILULA EIPINNATIFIDA Dougl. moist situation; stem-angles more or less 



Douglas, in HOOK, Fl Bor Am j.:258 hispid: Ivs 4. 5 or 6 in the whorls, often 



* oo /icoi-i shoiter than in the type, margins a..d 



*' midriD often scabrous; fls with a 3 o. 4- 



Sts 3 dm or more high, from a parted c?r; fr'i. g pedicels capillary, o ten 



thickened rt-stock, with usually a longer than the Ivs. n.t diva.ic.,t .' 



cluster of ,vs at base, and 1-3 Ivs ' >D?vlf S^lWA 



above; Ivs pinnately 3-7-parted, the "Rather diffusely branched, stem an- 



di visions incisely toothed or lobed, S^-s more or less scabrous; Ivs in fours, 



decurrent on the ra.his and forming ' 



a toothed wing, teeth acute or slight- parted, pedice's stouter than ia G t.nc- 



Iv pointed; umbel with 3 or 4 elon- toriaum submontanum; fr'ng pedicels 



gated rays, inv of IWke bracts, and $*Stt5S^3^*SKS 



involuceis of sm narrow acute bract- Arizo: a; Cal: Mex:co. 



lets; fls p (rarely y), in dense hds. the G^LIUM MULT IFLOPUM Kellogg. 



sterile ones pediceled; fr bristly all k *L\Tapproxin a e i, thuTk .4-6 mm long. 



over. 3 mm long; sd face broadly lateral nerves, and sometimes the nrtid- 



concave. with a prominent central vein obsolete; fr less <?,e^selv hirsute 



than in the species. Parish. Z e o:.o. S 



longitudinal ridge. p ;er mts 



Type locality: Fort Vancouver on Ptc;ea obscura. 



the Columbia (Douglas and Scouler). Greene, CXH 10:76 (16 Jl 1906), 



Type in hb Kew. BC, Wash, Ore, Cal, describes this as follows: "Shrub 



Ba.i (Or). slender, probably low, the slender 



SAXICUi^A TUBEROSA Torr. twigs after the first season dark- 



Torrey. Pacific Ry R 4:91 (1856). brown> giabrate, clos?lv regulose and 



Sts 1-6 dm high, from a sm globose stronffly glandular, all the growing 



tuber: Ivs twice or thrice pinnate, parts inc ] u ding both faces of the 



usually very finely divided, ultimate Ieave5t minutely end sparsely .tp- 



segs very sm: umbel 1-4-rayed, with pre5se d-imbescent: odd leaflet about 



inv of If-like bracts, and involuceis of 3 cm long> narrC w"y rhomboid-ovate. 



sm unequally united bractlets: fls y, broadest in the m'ddle or below it, 



the sterile ones on long 'pedicels: fr acute si base, acutish at apex, lateral 



broader than long, more flattened lat- leaflets from le?s to more than half 



erally than in any other sp. 2 mm as large, inequilateral]?- oblong-ovate. 



long, tuberculate. not at all bristly: t ft e i ea f as a whole of a li^ht-green, 



sd somewhat laterally flattened, with the lower face lighter but not glau- 



plane face. cescent; flower large, solitary, the 



Type locality: "hillsides, Duffield's petals oblong-obovate, short-unguicu- 



ranch, Sierra Nevada." Cal (Bigelow). late, densely puberulent without and 



Type in hb Columbia Univ. Cal, Baj within; filaments long, but stoutly 



(Or). subulate, glabrous throughout; fruit 



GALIUM APARTXE Linn. not known with certainty. 



Coose grass. Cleavers, a plant re- "X'ppr 9anto Toma<s T.ower Cal'for- 

 garded as a most valuable cooling ^ ar ^ , J? p ^ Oroutt tvne 



diuretic, useful in most diseases of the n ^ May It, 18SG C R Orcutt, 



urinary organs" (Gunn). "Considered in the Unit f d ^ates Na^onal Herbar- 



as a sovereign remedy in kidney dis- ium " The locaht >' of th l s 1S " Ot ; llk ,^ 



eases" (Mrs. Bingham). A cold infus- thC of p - a P tera ' maritime, but well 



ion is used, as heat destroys its medi- inland amon ^ the Peninsular hills and 



cinal virtues. Goose grass, as this mounta'ns. a fact which of itself 



plant is sometimes called, is abundant would betoken specific difference, es- 



in Southern and Baja California-in Peclally on our Pacific coast any- 



fact throughout the west, but our plant ^here, and on the peninsula of Low- 



differs from the eastern and European er -California it would be little short 



form of decisive. But there are excellent 



Variety VAILLANTI Koch. characters of foliage upon which to 



Texas; Quintin! SD: British Columbia. establish P obscura as a species; and 



^SS^^A^.ht. ^ * fT" ( r a - splc ; on h th fi at "' 



Usually erect unless growing in a fruit furnished the type of the figure 



