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posed of several ovate or lanceolate more or less united braetlets; 

 ovary tomentose or conspicuously woolly; fruit suborbicular, 4 or 5 

 lines long and nearly or quite as broad; wings quite as broad or broader 

 than body; oil-tubes variable, 2 or 3 in the intervals or sometimes 1, 

 4 or 2 on the commissural face. 



Bushy hills, open woods, or in the valleys of the Coast Ranges: 

 mountains west of Gilroy; San Francisco; Mt. Diablo; Marin Co.; 

 Napa Mountains; Vaca Mountains. Apr. -May. 



6. P. Vaseyi C. & R. Nearly acaulescent, the peduncles erect or 

 ascending, 3^ to 6 in. high; petioles inflated; leaves 2 to 5£ in. long; 

 leaf-segments oblong, mucronulate, 1 line long or less, hirsutulous on 

 the margins and rachis; rays 8 to 16, 1 to 2 in. long in fruit; pedi- 

 cels 4 or 5 lines long; bract 1 or none; braetlets few, obovate, crisped 

 or toothed; flowers yellow; fruit broadly oblong, 6 lines long, 4 lines 

 broad, emarginate; body of fruit 4 lines long, raised on a stipe 2 lines 

 long, both the stipe and the body with broad wings twice as wide as 

 the body; wings in mature fruit usually reddish; oil-tubes solitary in 

 the intervals, 4 on the commissural side. 



Summit of the Mayacamas Mountains, Pope Volley grade from 

 Calistoga; Mt. San Carlos, Fresno Co.; Sierra Nevada. Apr.-May. 



7. P. utricu latum Nutt. Caulescent, suberect, branching at the 

 base, 12 to 16 in. high, or near the sea low and decumbent; leaves 

 pubescent, triternately dissected into linear segments 1 to 5 lines 

 long; petioles conspicuously dilated; rays unequal, the fertile 1 to 3 

 in. long; pedicels 3 lines long or less; involucre of 1 to 3 bracts; 

 braetlets several, lanceolate or obovate, scarious-margined toward the 

 base, mucronate, sessile or with a petiole-like base; fruits 2$ to 4 

 lines long, elliptical or oblong, glabrous; wings scarcely as wide as 

 body; oil-tubes 4 to 6 on the face, solitary in the intervals or with 

 short accessory ones in the dorsal intervals; seed-face slightly concave. 



Common everywhere on open hillsides in the Sierra Nevada and 

 Coast Ranges: Red Bluff; Solano Co.; Sonoma; Berkeley; Santa 

 Clara Co.; Amador Co.; San Joaquin Co. and Kern Co. Scented like 

 the English Cowslip, acc. to Davy. Mar. 



8. P. caruifolium T. & G. Very nearly acaulescent; peduncles 

 erect, 3 or 4 from a common root, 8 to 14 in. high; leaves hispidulous. 

 triternately and verj* much dissected into linear segments; segments 

 3 to 6 lines long and £ line wide or less; fertile rays 1 to l| in. long; 

 pedicels H to 2 lines long; involucre none; involucels of distinct or 

 nearly distinct broadly ovate or oblong segments, entire or toothed at 

 apex, often borne on a petiole-like base; fruit glabrous, 3 to 5 lines 

 long; wings i to almost as wide as body; oil-tubes none on the face, 

 none in the intervals or indistinct. 



Low ground: Red Bluff; Yolo Co.; Solano Co.; San Joaquin Valley; 

 San Francisco and southward. Mar.-Apr. Fr. May. 



26. PASTINACA L. 

 Tall branching biennial with angular or fluted leafy stems from 



