WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 



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642. Oregon Poison 



Parsnip 



643. Water Parsnip 



Cicuta vagans 



Sium cicutaefolinm var. 

 heterophyllum 



644. Sweet Cicely Orris Osmorrhiza brachypoda 



Root 



645. Common Sweet Osmorrhiza nuda 



Cicely 



646. Sierra Sweet Osmorrhiza occidentalis 



Cicely 



647. Osmorrhiza ambiguum 



648. Osmorrhiza Bolanderi 



649. 



650. 



651. 



652. 



653. 



654. 



655. 



Oenanthe Californica 



Oenanthe sarmentosa 



Ligusticum apiifolium 



Selinum Pacificum 



Selinum capitellatum 



Angelica Breweri 



Angelica Hendersonii 



Abundant along Truckee 

 river as far as Truckee 

 from the Nevada line. 



Perennial aquatic or marsh 

 plant with fibrous, fleshy 

 roots, and angled stems, 

 pinnate leaves and serrate 

 or divided leaflets ; flow- 

 ers white ; fruit small, 

 ovoid, with acute, prom- 

 inent ribs. Suisun 

 marshes and elsewhere. 



Perennials with thick aro- 

 matic roots familiar to 

 mountaineers who chew 

 them. Large compound 

 leaves and umbels of 

 white flowers. Fruit lin- 

 ear oblong; oil-tubes 

 none. Coast Ranges and 

 Sierras. No. 646 frequent 

 in Sierras and much 

 relished by grazing ani- 

 mals. 



Tall, glabrous aquatic, 

 sometimes producing aeri- 

 al bulblets or slender 

 branchlets. Leaves bi- 

 pinnate. White flowers. 

 Fruit oblong to globose, 

 ribs rounded and corky, 

 oil-tubes at the angles. 

 Shallow pools Coast 

 Ranges south. 



Similar. Leaves simply 

 pinnate. Rare. Mon- 

 terey and north. Succu- 

 lent stems like celery and 

 eaten by Indians. 



Tall smooth perennial, 

 leaves ternate or bitern- 

 ate, the divisions pinnate 

 or bipinnate. Flowers 

 white. Fruit oval, 2 lines 

 long. Oil-tubes present. 

 Sierras, but obscure. 



Similar to the last, but fruit 

 more prominently winged. 

 Oil-tubes solitary and 

 conspicuous. Rare. Bay 

 region — Marin county. 



Umbels composed of many 

 dense globose umbellets 

 of white flowers. Sierras 

 by streams. Common. 



Fruit ovate, strongly flat- 

 tened, distinct wing. Tall 

 perennials. Flowers white 

 or pale-purple. Sierras 

 frequent. 



Along the coast. 



