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Fruit minute, (quarter to half an inch in length) echinate, (prickles 

 very stout, with a broad base) oblong, tapering to either extremity, 

 often somewhat obliquely inflated, greenish, marked by darker green 

 lines running back from the acuminate apex, two-celled, longitudinal 

 dissepiment complete, about two seeds in each cell, attached laterally 

 to the infolded margins of the dissepiment or parietal. 



Seeds erect, or sub-imbricate, ascending, fruit bursting at the apex, 

 forming a double orifice by the strong marcescent, persistent dissepi- 

 ment and parietes. 



Seeds black, rough, warted, warped, oblong, flattened, somewhat 

 truncate above, tapering towards the base, margins obtuse. 



In general size and outline, the seeds resemble a grape or raisin 

 seed. 



The form of the fruit, foliage, etc., resemble the Marah muricata. 



Arctostaphylos veatcMi, (Kellogg). — Leaves oblong, obtuse or sub- 

 acute, and acuminate, bony mucronate ; margins entire or repand, 

 scabrous, dentate, revolute, membrano-coriaceous, somewhat varnished, 

 green, reticulate, wrinkled, sparingly short frosty villous above, 

 densely short lanate frosty hoary (white) beneath, feather veined, 

 hoary ; petioles one-fourth to half an inch in length. 



The tender branchlets of the season also hoary. 



Racemes terminal, (or only lateral by subsequent growth) stout, 

 rough, irregularly sulcate, naked, erect, berries large, (size of the 

 largest peas). 



Flowers unknown. 



The pubescence, it may be remarked, has a granular appearance. 



Pentstemon eerrosensis, (Kellogg). — Stem sufFruticose, branching 

 below, glabrous, glaucous. 



Leaves coriaceous, somewhat corrugate or bullate, glaucous above 

 and below, quite entire, lanceolate and ovate-lanceolate, obscurely 

 three-nerved, apex recurved, mucronate, lower leaves on decurrently 

 thickened petioles (about one inch in length), base clasping, a connate 

 ring encircling the stem, decussate, densely crowded near the base ; 

 upper leaves sessile, clasping, cordate lanceolate. 



Peduncles short, stout, mostly two-flowered. Secund bracts minute, 

 recurve, lance-ovate. 



Calyx divisions ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, stoutly indurate, mucro- 

 nate striate, and distinctly three-nerved. 



Corolla tabular, somewhat obliquely ventricose downwards, slightly 

 curved or carinate ascending, border five-notched, divisions sub-equal, 

 very short, throat naked, contracted, yellow. 



Stamens glabrous throughout, two or more stamens, (when not 



