PARSLEY FAMILY 
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cm. broad, palmately 3 to 5-cleft, the divisions again cleft and serrate; 
bracts toothed; bractlets entire, shorter than the yellow flowers.—Open 
woods of the hill country. 
3. S. arguta Greene. Stems sparingly branched, 1.9 to 3.3 dm. high: 
leaves mainly basal, palmately 5 to 7-divided, all the divisions more or 
less pinnately parted and toothed and decurrent; bractlets membranous, 
oblong; flowers yellow.—Coastal S. Cal. 
4. S bipinnatifida Dougl. Purple Sanicle. Stems branching, leafy 
below, 2 to 5 dm. high; leaves pinnately 5 to 7-parted or -divided, the 
divisions laciniately lobed and toothed and decurrent on the toothed 
rachis; flowers purple, in dense heads borne in simple or partly com¬ 
pound umbels; bracts foliaceous; bractlets 13 or 14, lanceolate.—Grassy 
hills. 
5. S. laciniata H. fir. A. Coast Sanicle. Stems from a medium tap 
root, few-branched, 1 to 3 dm. high; leaves mostly basal, roundish, pal¬ 
mately 3-cleft or parted; umbel with 2 to 5 unequal rays: bractlets oblong- 
ovate or lanceolate; flowers yellow.—Slopes of coast hills from Hum¬ 
boldt Co. to Monterey Co. 
6. S. bipinnata H. & A. Poison Sanicle. Stems from an elongated 
tuber-l.’ke root, erect, 2 to 5 dm. high; herbage aromatic; leaves chiefly 
basal, twice or thrice pinnate; umbel with 3 or 4 rays and leaf-like bracts; 
flowers yellow; fruit tuberculate.—Shady woods in the low hills. 
7. S. tuberosa Torr. Turkey Pea. Stem from a globose tuber, 
simple or divided into peduncle-like branches; leaves ternately and sev¬ 
eral times dissected into subulate segments; bracts foliaceous; bractlets 
ovate or lanceolate; flowers yellow, in heads, the heads disposed in a 
more or less compound few-rayed umbel.—Gravelly hillsides. 
3. SCANDIX L. 
Annuals with dissected decompound leaves. Flowers polygamous, in 
compound umbels. Staminate flowers with a green disk. Pistillate 
flowers with a purple disk. Rays commonly 2. Fruit linear, flattened 
laterally, with prominent ribs, prolonged into a beak several times longer 
than the body. (The Greek name.) 
1. S. pecten-veneris L. Shepherd’s Needle. Erect, simple or branch¬ 
ing, 12 to 38 cm. high, sometimes hispidulous; leaves 2 or 4 times pin¬ 
nately dissected into linear segments; bractlets 2 or 3-toothed at apex or 
entire; ravs 1.2 to 2.4 cm. long.—San Francisco Bay region.; nat. from 
Eur. 
4. OSMORRHIZA Raf. Sweet Cicely 
Perennials with thick aromatic roots. Leaves mostly basal, 2 to 3 
times ternately compound. Flowers in compound umbels. Fruit linear 
or linear-oblong, smooth or bristly along the ribs. (Greek osme, odor, 
and rhiza, root.) 
1. O. nuda Torr. Stems glabrous, 4 to 7 dm. high; leaves 1.2 to 2.6 
dm. long, the cauline much reduced; rays 3 or 4 to 6; fruit attenuate 
into a slender base, at apex more or less beaked, the base and ribs bristly. 
—Shady woods. 
5. DAUCUS L. 
Bristly herbs with many times dissected leaves. Flowers white, in a 
