PARSLEY FAMILY 235 



1. Flowers white; fruit 6-8 mm. long P. montdnus 



2. Flowers pinkish to purple 



a. Bracts of the involucel 1-3-nerved 



(1) Fruits oblong, 8 mm. long P. bulbosus 



(2) Fruits round, 10-12 mm. long P. purpurdscens 



b. Bracts of the involucel many-nerved ; fruit 12- 



15 mm. long P.multinervdtus 



Pseudocymopterus Coulter and Rose 1888 



(Gr. pseud cs, false, from its relationship to Cymopterus) 



PI. 35, fig. 23-24; PL 36, fig. 7. 



Sepals 5, united and grown to the ovary, teeth evident, petals 5, usually 

 yellow to purple, stamens 5, ovary 2-celled, stylopodium none, fruit oblong 

 to rounded, each carpel with prominent and intermediate ribs, the lateral 

 ribs rather broadly and thickly winged, oil-tubes 1-4 in the intervals, 2-8 

 on the commissure side ; leaves twice pinnate ; stemless or stemmed peren- 

 mal. 



1. Stems leafy, .5-3 ft. high ; flowers yellow to purple P. montdnus 



2. Stemless, leaves basal ; flowers white or yellow P. anisdtus 



Pteryxia Nuttall 1840 

 (Gr. ptery.v, wing, from the wings of the fruit) 



Sepals 5, united and grown to the ovary, teeth evident, petals 5, yellow, 

 stamens 5, ovary 2-celled, stylopodium none, fruit oblong to round, each 

 carpel strongly flattened dorsally, dorsal and intermediate ribs prominent 

 or broadly winged, lateral ribs broadly winged, oil-tubes several in the 

 intervals; leaves ternate, then pinnately dissected; stemless perennial. 



1 . Flowers yellow ; fruit oblong, 6-7 mm. long P. calcdrea 



2. Flowers white; fruit roundish, 4 mm. long P. albiflora 



Sanicula Linne 1753 



(From the Latin sano, to heal) 



PI. 35, fig. 9. 



Sepals 5, united and grown to the ovary, teeth conspicuous, petals 5, 

 greenish-white, stamens 5, ovary 2-celled, fruit slightly flattened, more or 

 less globose, covered with hooked bristles, carpels ribless, the oil-tubes usu- 

 ally 5 ; flowers in small globose umbels, the clusters with leaf-like invol- 

 ucres ; leaves digitately 3-7-divided ; stemmed perennial. 

 Stems 1-4 ft. high; leaflets oblanceolate to obovate; 



fruit 5-6 mm. long S. marildndica 



