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viinthosporiiwi olivaceum^ B. & R.^ in G?'evillea^ iii., p, 102.) Ca^spites 
hypophylli, niaculas indeterminatas, vel effusas et totam fere foliorum 
superficiem obducentes, fuligineas formantes. Hyphae fasciculat?e, 
breves, 40-55// longae, torulosae, parce septatce, simplices, brunneae. 
Spor?e obclavato-filiformes, sursiim plerumque longissime attenuatae, 
multum denseque septatae, amoene brunneas, interdum ad septa con- 
strictae, usque 100// longae, inferne 7// crassae. 
In foliis vivis Gleditschm triacanthi\ Fulton Co., 111.; leg. A. B. 
Seymour. (No. 1,780.) 
Hottingen bei Zurich, Switzerland. 
Cucurbita Californica, Tom 
By C. C. Parry. 
In the Bulletin for March, 1882, the writer presented a notice 
of certain diagnostic characters, heretofore overlooked, derived from 
an examination of mature fruit of three of the peculiar perennial 
species of Cucurbita indigenous to Western North America, with out- 
line sketches of the same. The fourth remaining species, Cucurbita 
Californica^ Torr., then imperfectly known, has been lately brought 
to my notice by Mr. S. B. Parish, of San Bernardino, and, from very 
complete material kindly furnished by this enterprising collector, I 
am now able to complete the account, including all the recognized 
species of Western North America, viz,: 
Cucurbita Californica^ Torr. — Fruit orbicular-pyriform, 3-3^ inches 
in diameter, 2|-3|- inches in length, on peduncles 2^ inches long; 
peduncles curved, thickening upwards, and marked by about ten 
prominent ridges, which are prolonged in longitudinal lines to the 
apex of the fruit, other intermediate, less prominent lines intervening 
on the light green, rugose-hispid surface, irregularly spotted with 
dark green blotches; external rind thin and flexible, becoming lobu- 
lated and deeply wrinkled when dry, and losing its orbicular shape. 
Internal cellular tissue fleshy (not fibrous); placentae in 5 pairs, 
shortly curved, and bearing medium-sized, light brown seed on the 
outer edge. 
Plant with thick, fleshy, perennial root, annual branches 3-5 feet 
long, spreading, hispid-scabrous; leaves quinate-lobed, margins more 
or less undulate, dull green, mottled, with conspicuous branching 
veins, petioles \-2\ inches long, blade about the same length, tendrils 
divided to the base; flowers 2 inches long, similar to those of the 
other species. 
Habitat. — Collected by S, B. Parish, August, 1882, on the foot- 
hill slopes of Red-lands adjoining San Bernardino. Readily dis- 
tinguished from C paltnata, growing in the same district, by its 
smaller size, diminutive foliage, and especially by its dull green, thin- 
rinded fruit becoming lobulated when dry. 
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DESCRirTiON OF THE FIGURES.— Fig. I. Medium-sized leaf. Fig. 2. Section of 
mature IruU. Both natural size. * 
