

PARSLEY FAMILY. Umbelliferae. 
Valsia erat This has a stout, brownish stem, about 
Yellow eight inches tall, and fine, conspicuous 
Spring foliage, mostly in a clump at the base, the 
California 
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 
Purple Sanicle, 
Nigger-babies 
Sanicula : 
bipinnatifida maroon-color and are crowded into balls, 
Purplish less than half an inch across, forming a 
Spring, summer 
Cal., Oreg. 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 
Eulophus é 
Bainter two feet tall, the leaves cut into long, 
White narrow divisions, and the flowers very 
Summer small, cream-white or pinkish, forming a 
Northwest 
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 bluish- 
Aulospérmum : : 
Putites green foliage, with a “‘bloom,”’ the leaves 
(Cymopterus) prettily cut and lobed, with pinkish leaf- 
Yellow stalks, forming, when young, a large 
eae a 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 about 
an inch across, usually without bracts, and composed of 
five to ten smaller clusters, with bracts. When the plant 
is young the general effect of the flat, pale gray rosette of 
fern-like leaves, spotted with the contrasting yellow of the 
flowers, is pretty and striking. Sometimes a few of the 
flowers are purple. This hasa thick root and grows on dry 
sunny hills, in gravelly soil. 
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Indian Parsnip 

