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pediceled; umbels irregular, with long or short rays, small leaf-like bracts and 

 small lanceolate bractlets; fruit covered all over with bristles. 



Grassy slopes in the hills: Coast Eanges and the Sierra Nevada foothills 

 southward to Southern California and northward to the Columbia River. Com- 

 mon. 



4. S. maritima Kell. Dobie Sanicle. Plants 12 to 15 in. high, the stout 

 stem from a much-thickened root; basal leaves rather numerous, elliptical to 

 orbicular, entire or slightly serrate, 1 to 3 in. long on petioles 4 to 6 in. long; 

 can line leaves few, 3-parted into obovate or roundish divisions (as are some- 

 times the basal leaves) with sub-entire or coarsely toothed margins; peduncles 

 few, elongated; umbel with 1 to 4 rays 1 to 2% in. long; involucre of leaf- 

 like bracts; involucel of many small lanceolate bractlets; flowers yellow, the 

 sterile ones Bhort-pediceled ; fruit bristly, somewhat naked below, 1% lines 

 long; seed-face concave, with a very prominent median longitudinal ridge. 



Local species of low and wet adobe lands in the vicinity of salt-marshes bor- 

 dering San Francisco Bay; near Alameda (where collected by Dr. Kellogg) 

 and Potrero hills, San Francisco, the only recorded localities. 



5. S. laciniata H. & A. Coast Saxicle. Plants 6 to 15 in. high; stem 

 from a medium taproot, the branches few and disposed to diverge; leaves 

 mainly basal, roundish in outline, ]/ 2 to 1 in. long, palmately 3-cleft or -parted, 

 the divisions incisely lobed or laciniate with spreading teeth, their petioles 

 1 to 2 in. long, upper leaves and f oliaceous involucres similar but reduced ; 

 umbel with 2 to 5 unequal rays (% to 1% in.' long), or one or two of the 

 rays again umbellate; flowers yellow, subtended by an involucel of oblong- 

 ovate or lanceolate bractlets 1 line long; sterile flowers long-pediceled; fruit 

 prickly, somewhat naked below, 1% lines long. 



Slopes of the coast hills from Mendocino Co. to San Diego. Apr. 



6. S. bipinnata H. & A. Poisox Saxicle. Plant erect, the herbage with 

 a strongly aromatic odor; stem from an elongated tuber-like root, usually simple 

 below, % to 2 ft. high; leaves chiefly basal, 2 to 3 in. long, twice or thrice 

 pinnate, the ultimate divisions obovate or oblong, 3 to 4 lines long, not decur- 

 rent; umbel with 3 or 4 rays and leaf -like bracts; flowers yellow, the heads 2 

 lines in diameter and subtended by several small more or less united bractlets; 

 fruit tuberculate, the tubercles tipped with stout hooked bristles. 



Shady woods in the low hills: Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada. Apr. 

 Reputed poisonous to cattle. 



7. S. tuberosa Torr. Turkey-pea. Stem from a globose tuber, 5 to 9 in. 

 high, simple or divided at or near the surface of the ground into 2 to 5 long 

 peduncle-like often divergent branches, each irregularly di- or tri-chotomous, 

 the divisions ending in 1 to 4-rayed umbels and commonly with pedunculate 

 heads in the forks; leaves once or twice ternate, then pinnatifid, usually very 

 finely dissected into acutish segments; involucres of leaf -like bracts; involucels 

 of small ovate or lanceolate partially united bractlets; heads 2 to 3 lines broad; 

 flowers yellow, the sterile on pedicels 1 to 3 lines long; fruit flattened later- 

 ally, tuberculate but not at all bristly, 1 line long. 



Rocky or gravelly slopes in the foothills and up to 5,000 ft., Coast Ranges 

 and Sierra Nevada, southward to San Diego and Lower California. 



•.xatilis Greene. Stems numerous, from a thick root, branching and 

 -{.reading from the base; ultimate leaf-segments broad, coarsely toothed; flow- 

 ering branches repeatedly di-chotomous; flowers salmon-color; upper tubercles 



