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the veins beneath, these prominent, of elongated obovate out- 
line cuneately tapering at the base, at apex very obtuse, even 
often almost truncate, minutely serrulate: umbels nearly sessile, 
- each maturing a single dark-purple fruit large for foliage, 3- 
seeded. e 
The type of this new species, allied to E. rubra, is by Cope- 
land, from Sisson, Calif. 15 Aug. 1903, distributed by Mr. O. F. 
Baker under n. 3833. There are traces of the same from Butte 
Co., by Mrs. Austin. 
New Species of Ceanothus. 
The study of a new Ceanothus from New Mexico allied to 
what is commonly known in California as C. integerrimus has 
recalled to my mind what I learned at Kew ten years ago, but 
have never yet published as to the real identity of the common 
shrub of California. 
In the summer of 1888 Dr. C. Parry brought to me for 
inspection a Ceanothus from the Santa Cruz Mountains unlike 
any which either he or I had seen before, which he believed to 
be new, and I could not gainsay it. He therefore soon after 
published it as C. Andersonii, dedicating it to our friend Dr. C. 
L. Anderson, of Santa Cruz. I adopted the species readily in 
the Flora Franciscana, without any critical study of it; nor did 
I doubt its validity until, at Kew Gardens, in 1894, while 
examining types in this genus, [ discovered that the originals of 
Hooker and Arnots’ C. integerrimus were precisely what Dr. 
Parry had published as new under the name C. Andersonit, 
Consulting the original description by Hooker, we find that 
that alone, duly regarded, would have saved both Dr. Parry and 
myself this error; for the leaves are described as “oblong-ellip- 
tical,” a character which the foliage of the common shrub of 
the mountains of the interior never exhibits, its leaves every- 
where showing something of the ovate in outline; being even 
very commonly ovate. 
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LEAFLETS, Vol. i, pp. 65-81, Nov. 24, 1904. 
