x 34 Some California Plants. [zoe 



E. inermis. Plant entirely glabrous, climbing high. Leaves 

 large, thin, deeply-lobed, the lobes with large rounded sinuses. 

 Sterile flowers bright white in divaricately branching panicles 

 6 to 8 inches long. Fruit globular, 2 inches in diameter, 

 very weakly muricate, 4-celled, cells i-seeded. Seeds 

 oblong-obovoid, scarcely at all compressed. So far, only found 

 at Sherlocks, Mariposa County, but it is very probably not rare 

 in the foothills. 



Corollas Campanulate. 

 E. Marah Kell. A luxuriant climber. Leaves very broad 

 dark green. Corollas bright white, large for the genus. Sterile 

 flowers in branching panicles 6 to 12 inches long. Fruits 

 ovoid 3 to 4 inches long, tapering at both ends, weakly 

 muricate, 2 to 3-celled, several to many-seeded. Seeds circu- 

 lar, flattened, nearly an inch in diameter, a third of an inch 

 thick in center, thinner on the edges. 



This species belongs to the coast region, around San Francisco 

 Bay, and is especially marked by the peculiar seeds. 



E. horrida Congdon. Plant glabrous, climbing high Leaves 

 usually with short, triangular lobes and acute sinuses. Sterile 

 flowers, bright white in elongated, scarcely branching racemes 

 4 to 6 inches long. Fruit very large, ovoid or oblong-ovoid' 

 rounded at the ends, 4 to 6 inches long and 2 to 3 inches in 

 diameter, strongly muricate with stout spines, usually 4-celled 

 8 to 10-seeded. Seeds oblong-ovoid with one end terete and the 

 other decidedly compressed. 



This is the common species of our foothills, but it fruits so 

 rarely, that it was not until last year that good fruit, sufficiently 

 identified as belonging to this (with us) common species was 

 obtained. 



E. muricata Kell. This is a more slender species than 

 any of the others, with smaller, usually sinuately lobed leaves 

 Flowers small white. Sterile flowers rather few in slender 

 racemes. Fruit sometimes glabrous, usually muricate with a 

 few weak spines. Seeds almost globular, half an inch or more 

 in diameter. This species seems confined to the foothills north 

 ol Tuolumne County. 



The principal points upon which, as it seems to me, we can 



