64 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
in size, depending on number of seeds developed, in general 
5 to 6 mm. tall, 6 to 7 mm. broad, depressed at apex, 
trigastric; seeds oval or globose, 4 to 5.5 mm. long, black 
or cinereous-variegated; caruncle prominent, triangular 
or reniform. — Plate 26. 
Specimens examined from vicinity of San Francisco (Chamisso; Bo- 
lander, no. 2454, Capt. Wilkes’ Expl. Exped.; Brandegee, 1885; Kellogg 
and Harford, nos. 236 and 900; Michener and Bioletti, no. 352a; Jones, 
no. 2383; Douglass); Santa Barbara and Monterey (Hartweg, 1949; Nut- 
tall; Rich; Torrey, no, 479; Schott; Vasey, 1875; Rothrock, no. 113; 
Coulter, no. 666); other California localities (Vasey, no. 580, San Ber- 
nardino; Peckham, San Buenaventura, 1866, Ojai and vicinity, 1866; 
Brewer, no. 28, Los Angeles; Parry, San Diego to Monterey, 1850; Pal- 
mer, no. 444, southern part of San Diego Co. 1875; Eastwood, Brent- 
wood, 1893; Eastwood (?), Saugus, Los Angeles Co.; Parish, no. 4448, 
Oceanside, San Bernardino, 1894; Anger, no. 191, Dd. Man. Alt. 1000 ft. ; 
Orcutt, Smith Mt., 1882; Jones, 3030, Pasadena; Pringle, Wilmington, 
1882: — the last two very close to var. tenuis). 
C. CALIFORNICUS TENUIS n. comb. C’. tenuis Watson, Proc. 
Am. Acad. Arts and Sci. 14:297. 1879; Bot. Cal. 
2:69. 1880. 
Low shrub, 3 to 7 dm. high, erect, branches very slen- 
der, densely scaly-stellate ; leaves narrowly oblong to lance- 
olate, 2 to 4.5 em. long, .5 to 1 cm. wide, entire, cinereous 
above, lighter and with a more metallic luster below; 
petioles short, 5 to 10 mm. long, less than half the length 
of the leaves; dioecious; staminate racemes simple, 1 to 3 
em. long, nude below, 5- to 20-flowered above, flowers 
small, about 2mm. broad, on pedicels 3 mm. long, pen- 
tamerous, sepals ovate, petals none, stamens 10 to 12; pis- 
tillate flowers few, generally maturing only 1 or 2; styles 
very short; capsule trigastric, depressed, about 4 to 5 mm. 
tall; seeds oval to oblong, 3 to 4 mm. long; caruncle large. — 
Plate 27, f. 1. 
Specimens examined from California (Cleveland, Potrero, 1876, no. 
836, San Luis Rey, 1882; in Nat. Herb., San Diego; A. Gray, San Diego; 
Newhall, 1885; K. C. Newhall, 1883; Snyder, San Diego, 1894; Nevin, 
Los Angeles, 1878 and 1881. Insensibly passing into more erect and 
shrubby forms with slightly larger leaves, greener above: Parish, 
