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Union county {Cusick DUO); Washington Tcnitory ( WilkGti' ExpijL), Klick- 

 itat county (Sufikfidorf'ili)); Montana, upper waters of Jocko and Flathead 

 rivers (Canby 142); Vancouver Island (Macoun), British Columbia 

 (Fletcher). Fl. April to June. 



The original description was drawn from Californian (Plumas Co.) 

 specimens, in which the stems are very shoit and peduncles mostly from 

 the base; while the northern forms, from Oregon northward, are slender- 

 stemmed, taller, and usually more simple. 



7. S. maritima Kellogg, Watson in Bot. Calif, ii. 451. 

 Foot or more higli, from a thickened rootstock: radical leaves long 

 petioled, somewhat cordate, very obtuse, entire or sparingly dentic- 

 ulate or crenulate, 2 to 4 inches long, li^ to 3 inches broad; cau- 

 line leaves one or few, smaller and more or less lobed or parted: 

 umbel with about 8 elongated rays (often with bracts near the 

 middle), involucre of large leaf-like lobed or parted bracts, and 

 involucels of numerous small lanceolate bractlets: flowers yellow, 

 the sterile ones short-pedicelled: fruit somewhat naked below, 

 prickly above, 2 lines long: seed-face concave, with a very promi- 

 nent central longitudinal ridge. (Fig. 110.) 



Near the coast about San Francisco, California (Kelloyrf, G. R. Vasey). 



^ '^ Leaves more or less ^innately divided. 



8. S. bipinnatifida Dougl. in Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 258. 

 Stems a foot or more high, from a thickened rootstock, with 

 usually a pair of opposite leaves at base, and 1 to 3 leaves above: 

 leaves pinnately 8 to 7-parted, the divisions incisely toothed or 

 lobed, decurrent on the toothed rhachis, teeth acute or slightly 

 pointed: umbel with 3 or 4 elongated rays, involucre of leaf-like 

 bracts, and involucels of small narrow merely acute bractlets: flow- 

 ers purple (rarely yellow), in dense heads, the sterile ones on long 

 pedicels: fruit prickly all over, 1 1^ lines long: seed-face broadly 

 concave, with a prominent central longitudinal ridge. (Fig. HI.) 



Hills, woods, and dry plains, from S. California [Bigelow, Newberry, 

 Vasey, Puriah, Parry, Lemmon, Cleveland, etc.), to N. Oregon (Nuitall), 

 Puget Sound (Wilkes Exped.), and Vancouver Island (Maco^m). Fl. May 

 and June. 



9. S. bipinnata Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey, 347. A foot 

 or more high, from a slender fusiform root: leaves twice or thrice 

 pinnate, with divisions not at all decurrent, cuneate-oblong to 

 ovate, incisely and mucronately toothed: umbel 3 to 4-rayed, with 

 involucre of leaf-like bracts, and involucels of a few small bractlets 



