WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 



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617. 



Bowlesia lobata 



618. Covote Thistle 



619. 



620. 



621. 



622. 

 623. 

 624. 

 625. 

 626. 

 627. 

 628. 

 629. 



630. 

 631. 

 632. 



Sanicle 



Eryngium armatum 



Eryngium vaseyi 



Eryngium Californicum 



Eryngium articulatum 



Sanicula 



Sanicula 

 Sanicula 

 Sanicula 

 Sanicula 

 Sanicula 

 Sanicula 

 Sanicula 



arctopoides 



menziesii 



maritima 



laciniata 



bipinnatifida 



bipinnata 



tuberosa 



nevadensis 



Velaea Hartwegi 

 Velaea Kelloggii 

 Velaea arguta 



Delicate annuals with 

 simple umbels, flowers 

 white, minute. Fruit small, 

 without ribs or oil-tubes. 

 Damp, shady rocks or 

 banks. Coast ranges and 

 Sierras. 



Prickly herbs, flowers 

 greenish-white or bluish 

 in dense peduncled heads ; 

 fruit covered with hya- 

 line scales. Spiny bracts 

 which hurt feet of dogs. 

 Weeds in pastures. Moist 

 places. Coast Ranges 

 and interior valley. 



Smooth perennials with 

 lobed leaves more or less 

 divided. Flowers yellow. 

 Fruit densely covered 

 with hooked prickles. 

 Some, if not all, of the 

 species poisonous to stock, 

 particularly horses. Coast 

 Ranges and interior val- 

 ley. 629 in Indian Val- 

 ley, Plumas County. 



Smooth, erect, perennial 

 herbs with pinnate and 

 bipinnate leaves, yellow 

 flowers in large umbels. 

 Fruit oblong, elliptical or 

 orbicular, compressed, 



oil-tubes 2 or 3. Con- 

 spicuous. Coast Ranges 

 and upper interior valley. 

 632, Southern California 

 near coast. 



633. Poison Hemlock 



Conium maculatum 



Tall smooth biennial, stems dotted with purple marks. Leaves compound and 

 finely dissected. Flowers white in compound umbels. Fruit broadly ovate, some- 

 what compressed, oil-tubes none. 



Introduced. Bay region and elsewhere. Weed. Unpleasant odor ; not liked 

 by stock. Roots poisonous. Useful medicine extracted from it. 



634. Common Celery 



635. Wild Celery 



Apium graveolens 



Apiastrum angustifolium 



Escape from gardens. 

 Marshes, San Francisco 

 to San Diego. 



Small branching annual 

 with dissected leaves and 

 small white flowers. Fruit 

 small, heart - shaped, 

 roughened, ribs incon- 

 spicuous, oil tubes soli- 

 tary in the intervals, 2 on 

 the face. Coast, San Di- 

 ego to Mendocino. 



