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eastwaid into the Sacramento Valley; also Vancouver and Queen Charlotte 
Islands (3Iacoun, Dawson), and the northwest coast (Menzies). FI. March 
to Mav. 
S. Howellii C. R. Bot. Gazette, xiii. 81. Stems coarse, 
ti foot oi less high, more or less buried iu the sand, often bearing 
tufts of stout elongated peduncles and leaves: leaves broad and 
jDalmately 3 to 5-lobed (often much modified by burial in the 
sand), the uppei inclined to be pinnately lobed, the divisions rather 
sharply cut and toothed, the teeth mucronate-tipped : umbels 
unequally few-rayed, v^dth involucre of few leaf-like bracts, and 
involucels of v^ery prominent bractlets, sometimes much exceeding 
the laige globose head of fruit; flowers yellow: fruit short pedicel- 
late, prickly all over, li^ to 2 lines long: seed-face concave. 
(Fig. 106.) 
■ Sandy shores, Tilamook Bay and Ocean Beach, Oregon, Julv 15, 1882 
{Howell IG, Henderson 1584); Orcas Island, in 1858 {Lyall, on Oregon 
Boundary Commission); Puget Sound {Wilkes’ Exped. 71, distributed as 
S- Menziesii), Salinas \alley {J. ( 7 . Eevin, ixi 1882); on Beacon Hill, Victoria, 
Vancouver Island, May 5, 1887 {Macoun 5); also probably near San Fran- 
cisco, Calitornia {Kellogg tfc Harford 299, in 1868-9). 
Exceedingly variable in its leaves and the length of its braotlets. This 
sea-coast species is most nearly allied to S. arctopoides H. & A., but the 
habitat of that species, its almost stemless habit, its leaves so laciniately 
dissected as to appear fringed, its fruit naked at base, and its nearly plane 
seed-face, are the more marked characters which separate it from S. 
Howellii. 
4. S. Menziesii Hook. & Am. Bot. Beechey, 142 and 347. 
Stem solitaiy, erect, 1 to 3)^ feet high, branching': leaves round- 
C01 date, 2 to 4 inches broad, very deeply 3 to 5-lobed, the broad 
segments sharj^ly toothed or somewhat cleft, the teeth bristle- 
tipped ; upper leaves more narrowly lobed and laciniately toothed: 
umbel with 3 to 4 slender rays, involucre of 2 or 3 small leaf-like 
bracts, and involucels of 6 to 8 small entire bractlets; flowers yel- 
low, the sterile ones nearly sessile: fruit becoming distinctly 
pedicellate and divergent, obovate, 1 to 2 lines long, covered with 
v/ith strong pickles: seed-face sulcate. (Fig. 107), 
- Woods and meadows, S. California {Darisli , Orcutt) to Vancouver 
Island {Macon rt) , British Columbia {Elefcher), and the northwest coast 
{Menzies). FI, April and May. 
