104 



eastward into the Sacramento Valley; aUo Vancouver and Queen Charlottp 

 Ihhiuds iMuroini. Dmrson]. and the northwest coast (J/ t'«^/f'.s). Fl. March 

 to May. 



;l S. Howellii C A: R. Bot. (Jazette, \iii, SI. Stems coarse, 

 a foot or less high, more or less hurled in the sand, often bearing 

 tufts of stout elongated peduncles and leaves: leaves hroad and 

 palmately 3 to 5-lohed (often much modified by burial in the 

 santl), the upper inclined to be pinnately lobed, the divisions rather 

 sharply cut and toothed, the teeth mucronate-tipped : umbels 

 unequally few-rayed, with involucre of few leaf-like bracts, and 

 involucels of very prominent bractlets, sometimes much exceeding 

 the large globose head of fruit; fiowers yellow: fruit short pedicel- 

 late, prickly all o\er, 1^4 to 2 lines long: seed-face concave. 

 (Fig. lOB.) 



Sandy shores, Tilaniook Bay and Ocean Beach. Oregon, July 15, 18S2 

 ( Howell 1(). Henderson 1.584); Oreas Island, in 18.58 {LyalL on Oregon 

 Boundary Commission); Puget Sound {Wilkefi' E.rped. 71, distributed as 

 .S. Menziesii); Salinas Valley (J. C. Xeviit, in 1882); on Beacon Hill, Victoria, 

 Vancouver Island, May .">, 1887 {Macouii 5); also probably near San Fran- 

 cisco, Calitornia (Kellof/a d- Harford 2!)!), in l.sGS-O). 



Exceedingly variable in its leaves and the length of its bractlets. This 

 sea-coast species is most nearly allied to .S'. ((rctopoldes H. & A., but the 

 habitat of that species, its almost stemless habit, its leaves so laciuiately 

 dissected as to appear fringed, its fruit naked at base, and its nearly plane 

 seed-face, are the more maiked characters which separate it from S. 

 HoireUii. 



4. S. Menziesii llouk. t\: Arn. Bot. 13eechcy, 142 and 347. 

 Stem solitary, erect, 1 to 8i^ feet high, branching: leaves round- 

 cordate, 2 to 4 inches broad, very deeply '5 to 5-lobcd, the broad 

 segments sharply toothed or somewhat cleft, the teeth bristle- 

 tipped; upper leaves more narrowly lobed and laciuiately toothed: 

 umbel with 8 to 4 slender rays, involucre of 2 or 3 small leaf-like 

 bracts, and in\olucels of (5 to 8 small entire bractlets; flowers yel- 

 low, the sterile ones nearly sessile: fruit becoming distinctly 

 pedicellate and divergent, obovate, 1 to 2 lines long, covered with 

 v.'ith strong pickles: seed-face sulcate. (Fig. K)7). 



Woods and meadows, S. California (Purinh, Orcutt) to Vancouver 

 Island {Macoan), British Columbia {Fhtchrr), and the northwest coast 

 (Mrnzir.^). Fl. April and May. 



