PARSLEY FAMILY. Umbelli ferae. 



arguta 

 Yellow 

 Spring 

 California 



This has a stout, brownish stem, about 

 eight inches tall, and fine, conspicuous 

 foliage, mostly in a clump at the base, the 

 leaves rich-green and very glossy, stiff 

 and crisp in texture, though not thick, with bristle-tipped 

 teeth. The rather ugly little flowers are greenish-yellow 

 and the main cluster has no bracts. This grows in can- 

 yons in southern California. 



This has branching, purplish stems, 

 from six inches to three feet tall, and 

 handsome foliage. The flowers are 

 maroon-color and are crowded into balls, 

 less than half an inch across, forming a 

 loose, irregular cluster, with leafy bracts 

 at the base. The effect of the dark flowers 

 and fine foliage is rather attractive and it is common on 

 grassy slopes in the hills. 



This has a smooth, stiff stem, one to 

 two feet tall, the leaves cut into long, 

 narrow divisions, and the flowers very 

 small, cream- white or pinkish, forming a 

 flat-topped cluster, about two inches 

 across, with narrow, pale bracts. This is quite pretty and 

 common in Yosemite. 



Decorative in form and color and un- 

 usual looking, with smooth, pale bluis 

 green foliage, with a "bloom," the lea-\ 

 prettily cut and lobed, with pinkish 

 stalks, forming, when young, a lai 

 rosette, close to the ground, but the stem 

 gradually lengthens until the cluster of 

 leaves, after the flowers are gone, finds itself on the summit 

 of a long stem, sheathed at base. The minute, bright 

 yellow flowers form flat-topped clusters, with flower-stems 

 two or three inches tall, not hollow, the main cluster aboul 

 an inch across, usually without bracts, and composed oi 

 five to ten smaller clusters, with bracts. When the plant 

 is young the general effect of the flat, pale gray rosette o: 

 fern-like leaves, spotted with the contrasting yellow of the 

 flowers, is pretty and striking. Sometimes a few of the 

 flowers are purple. This has a thick root and grows on dry 

 sunny hills, in gravelly soil. 



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Purple Sanicle, 

 Nigger-babies 



Sanicula 

 bipinnatifida 

 Purplish 

 Spring, summer 

 Cal., Oreg. 



Eulophus 



Boldnderi 



White 



Summer 



Northwest 



Indian Parsnip 



Aulospermum 



longipes 



(Cymopterus) 



Yellow 



Spring 



Utah, Col., Wyo. 



