Tauschia kelloggii (A. Gray) J. F. Macbr.

Tauschia kelloggii (A. Gray) F. Macbr. Contr. Gray
Herb. 59: 29. 1919.
Deweya Kelloggii A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 343. 1868. Velaea Kelloggii Coult. & Rose, Rev. N. Am. Umhell. 121. 1888. Driideophytum Kelloggii Coult. & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7: 81. 1900.
Acaulescent, or nearly so, from a taproot, 2-7 dm. high, minutely scabrous throughout; leaves ovate to orbicular in general outline, excluding the petioles S-20 cm. long, 10-22 cm. broad, 1-3-ternate or -ternate-pinnate, the leaflets oblong to ovate, confluent, cuneate at the base, 15-35 mm. long, 10-20 mm. broad, coarsely mucronate-serrate and often incised or lobed; petioles 5-15 cm. long; peduncles 20-50 cm. long; involucre wanting; involucel of a few linear, entire bractlets, 3-8 mm. long, shorter than the flowers and fruit; rays 10-20, unequal, 2-12 cm. long; pedicels 3-15 mm. long; calyx-teeth minute; flowers yellow; styles slender, spreading; carpophore 2-cleft nearly to the base; fruit suborbicular, 3-5 mm. long, 4—6 mm. broad, the ribs filiform; oil-tubes 2 or 3 in the intervals, about 6 on the commissure; seed-face deeply sulcate.
Type locality: Bolinas Bay near San Francisco, Marin County, California, Kellogg. Distribution: Coastal southern Oregon, south to central California [Elmer 49ZS. Heller 10,811).