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UMBELLIFERiE. 



Very common everywhere on grassy hills in the Sierra Nevada and 

 Coast Ranges: Mendocino Co.; Solano Co., Napa Valley; Mt. 

 Tamalpais; Oakland Hills; Los Gatos. Apr. 



6. S. bipinnata H. & A. Stem from an elongated tuber, mostly 

 simple below the inflorescence, commonly 10 to i4 in. high; umbels 

 terminal and lateral, rather long-peduncled; rays "2\ to less than 1 in. 

 long; leaves twice or thrice pinnate; leaflets ovate or oblong, lobed or 

 cleft, mostly 3 to 4 or 6 lines long; flowers yellow, the sterile long- 

 pediceled; fruit naked below, echinate above. 



Common in the shade of Oaks and other trees in the low hills of 

 the Coast Ranges from Putah Creek and Vacaville to Contra Costa 

 Co. and southward to Southern California. Also in the Sierra 

 Nevada. Herbage very aromatic, as also in the next. 



7. S. tuberosa Torr. 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 bearing a more or less 

 compound 1 to 4-rayed umbel; leaves ternately decompound and 

 very finely dissected, the ultimate segments subulate; involucre 

 foliaeeous; involucels of lanceolate or ovate bractlets; flowers yellow, 

 the sterile long-pediceled. 



Rocky or gravelly hillsides in the foothills: Coast Ranges (Ukiah, 

 Lake Co.. St, Helena); Sierra Nevada (Amador Co. to Nevada Co.). 

 May. 



5. SCANDIX L. 



Annuals with dissected decompound leaves. Flowers white, in 

 compound umbels. Rays commonly 2, rarely 1 or 3. Involucre 

 none or of one bract. Involucels of several bractlets. Petals unequal, 

 the outer larger. Fruit linear, flattened laterally, muricate, prolonged 

 into a beak several times longer than the body. Ribs prominent. 

 Oil-tubes none. Seed-face sulcate. (The Greek name.) 



1. S. Pecten-Veneris L. Shepherd's Needle. Stem simple 

 or branching, erect, 5 to 16 in. high; herbage somewhat hispidulous; 

 leaves 2 or 3 times pinnately dissected into linear acute segments less 

 than \ line wide; bractlets 2 or 3-toothed at apex or entire; rays \ to 

 1 in. long; pedicels very short; body of fruit 4 lines long, bearing a 

 straight flatfish beak If in. long, its edges hispidulous. 



Naturalized from Europe: Berkeley; Sonoma Valley (1891); Santa 

 Rosa; Napa Valley. May. Fr. June. 



6. OSMORRHIZA Raf. Sweet Cicely. 

 Perennials with thick aromatic roots. Leaves mostly radical and 

 ternately compound. Flowers white, in compound umbels. Calyx- 

 teeth obsolete. Involucre reduced or obsolete. Involucels present or 

 none. Fruit linear or linear-oblong, acute at summit, rather promi- 

 nently attenuate at base; glabrous and smooth or bristly along the 

 ribs; carpels pentagonal in cross section, with equal ribs. Oil-tubes 

 none in mature fruit. Seed-face concave to very deeply sulcate. 

 (Greek osme, odor, and rhiza, root.) 



