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CATALOGUE OF SPECIES. 79 



No. 113 is the nearly entire-leafed form which lias been called C. divarhatvs eglan- 

 dnlosus by Torrey, and C. eglandulosuB by Trelease. It appears, however, not to be 

 really different from what recent authors consider the typo of the species. In re- 

 gard to the other two numbers Professor Greene has written me: "I put them both 

 down without hesitancy as C. divaricatm, but more pubescent than the type, and 

 leaves more constantly serrate, with the remark that if this he correct, you have finely 

 extended the range of this species, which is not strange, seeing how little we have 

 ever before learned about the connections of the Coast Range and Sierra floras in that 

 region where they must naturally be expected to meet, i. e., whore a s.,rt of trans- 

 verse range of the mountains connects the two." This form appears to extend along 

 the western foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada and to connect geographically 

 with the type form, which belongs to the coast region, through the mountains south 

 ami west of Tejon Pass. Specimens were collected in Cajon Pass (No. 113), on the 

 western slope of Walker Pass (No. 1032), and in the valley of the Kaweah River 

 (No. 1309). All were examined by Professor Greene. 



Ceanothus diversifolius Kellogg, Proc. Cal. Acad. i. 58 (1855). Type locality, 

 " riacerville," El Dorado County, California. 



This, as already pointed out in Flora Franciscana, p. 82, is the species which was 

 published by Dr. Watson as C. decumbent, and which has usually passed under that 

 name. The plant is, as commonly described, creeping and sends up ascending 

 branches usually 20 cm. or less long. Dr. Kellogg, in his description, evidently 

 supposed the long creeping stems to have grown erect, for he wrote " lateral branches - 

 divaricate, slightly nodding," and "flowers in long, axillary, simple racemes, some- 

 what pendant." 



In the forests of Finns ponder osa, in the valley of the Kaweah River (No. 1376). 



Ceanothus feiidleri Gray, PL Fendl. 29 (1849). Type locality, " mountains east 

 of Santa F<5," New Mexico. 



This shrub was reported by Dr. Merriam from Mount Magruder, Charleston 

 Mountains, and the Highland Range, Nevada, and Beaverdam Mountains, Utah. 

 No specimens were collected. 



Ceanothus greggii Cray, PI. Wright ii. 28 (1853). Type locality, "Battlefield 

 of Buena Vista," and "side of mountains near Frontera, New Mexico." 



On the Charleston and Panamint Mountains, among the pinons, occurred a Ceano- 

 thus of stiff, branching, bushy habit, about 1 meter high, v^ith thick oblong ever- 

 green sometimes spinose-denticulate leaves about 1 cm. in length. Neither flowers 

 nor fruit of the plant was seen. It is probably a northern outlying form of C. 

 grrggii. In the Charleston Mountains it was seen below Clark's sawmill and in the 

 pass north of Olcott Peak; in the Panamint Mountains, near the head of Johnson 

 Canon. 



Ceanothus integerrimus Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 329 (1839-40). Typo locality 

 not given. Tin; plants upon which the description was based were collected by 

 Douglas, probably in northern California. 



Frazier Mountain (No. 1208). This plant grows at a uniformly lower altitude 

 than C. parv'tfoVtus, being found in the upper portion of the chaparral belt, while the 

 other occurs only in the forests above that belt. 



Ceanothus parvifolius (Wats.) Proc. Amer. Acad. x. 334 (1875), as C. integerrimus 

 parnfforus; Trelease, Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 2. i. 110 (1888). Type locality, " in the 

 Sierra Nevada from Yosemite Valley northward." 



While working in the field and observing this plant in comparison with C. integcrri- 

 mns, I saw T no intergrades between the two, and considered them distinct species. 

 Yet I have considerable hesitation in recording that opinion because Dr. Parry, who 

 has had the widest opportunities for observation, states in the Proceedings of the 



