40 THE GENUS PHORADENDRON 
Central Californian region, on Aesculus, Alnus, Fraxinus, Juglans, 
Platanus, Populus, Robinia and Salix: apparently rarely on Quercus.*— 
The type from California. 
Specimens examined:—UNITED STATES. CALIFORNIA. Lake Co. 
(Bolander, 2670). Sacramento River (Wilkes Expedition, 1316,—the 
type, as also of P. flavescens quinquenervium Torr. in herb.). Kaweah 
(Hopping, 263). Visalia (Rattan, 1912). Araquipa Rancho (Jepson, 
1894). УасауШе (Jepson, 1894; Platt, 1894). Putah Creek (Steiger, 
1894). Kern Co. (Grinnell, 399, 402). Ventura Co. (Abrams & Mc- 
Gregor, 33, 49). Mendocino (Brown, 921). Chico (Griffiths, 1912). 
San Gabriel (Brewer, 113). San Bernardino (S. B. & W. F. Parish, 
650). Lytle Creek Cafion (Abrams, 2749; Spaulding, 299-301; Graves, 
1097). Santa Moniea Range (Hasse, 4626, 1889, 1893). Pasadena 
(Jones, 3028, ete.). San Bernardino Co. (J. F. James, 1879). Los An- 
geles Co. (Braunton, 792). San Diego Co. (Alderson, 705; Stokes, 1895). 
Temecula (Leiberg, 3215). Claremont (Chandler, 1897). Without 10- 
eality (Wright, 1853-6; Vasey, 1875, 1880). Mohave Desert (Saunders, 
1906). Arizona. Sedona (Hedgcock, 4923). 
Phoradendron longispicum cyclophyllum n. var. 
Differs from the type, with which it occurs, in its smaller charac- 
teristically orbicular leaves. 
Specimens examined:—Unirep STATES. CALIFORNIA. Soland Co. 
(Jepson, 1894,—the type). 
^ PHORADENDRON VILLOSUM Nuttall. 
Phoradendron villosum Nuttall, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. n. 8. 
vol. 1. p. 185. 1848.—Cannon, Bull. Torr. Bot. Cl. vol. 28. p. 374. 
pl. 27-28. 
P. flavescens villosum Engelmann in Rothrock, Bot. Wheeler. p. 252. 
( =Rothrock, Repts. upon the bot. collections, as vol. 6, Rept. U. S. 
Geogr. Surv....in charge of G. M. Wheeler) 1878,—as to the West- 
Coast plant. 
Viscum villosum Nuttall in Torrey & Gray, Fl. vol. 1. p. 654. 1840. 
Е Not forked, the rather short stout branches without eataphyls, dioe- 
cious. Internodes short (2-4x20-25 mm.), densely short-villous like the 
foliage. Leaves oblanceolate-obovate, very obtuse, 1.5-2 or rarely 3 x3-4 
or even 5 em., euneately subpetioled for 3-5 mm. Spikes often clustered, 
short (10-15 mm., seareely exeeeding 20 mm. in fruit), short-villous, 
with about 3 short swollen joints, some 6-flowered when pistillate and 
*See Hedgecock, Phytopathology. vol. 5. p. 17 : голыг 
the following species, ds 87 p. 178, for hosts—possibly inelusive of 
