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shoulder into the basket. The desert tribesmen are extremely fond of them and say that in words 

 of the white man's language they may be called "Indian Grapes." 



Locs. — Mohave Desert: Barstow, Jepson 6640; Ludlow, Jepson 5498; Needles, Jepson 5484. 

 Colorado Desert: Palo Verde, ne. Imperial Co., Eitchcoch 12,195; Fort Yuma, Parish 8491; 

 Carriso Creek, e. San Diego Co., T. Brandegee. 



Eefs. — Ltcium torreti Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 6:47 (1862), type loc. Fort Yuma, Cal., 

 Thomas (type selected by Hitchcock, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 19:282, from sLx collections cited in 

 original diagnosis) ; Jepson, Man. 890 (1925). 



6. L. andersonii Gray. Water Jacket. Intricately branched scraggly shrub 

 with needle-like spines, 1 to 3 or 5 feet high, usually glabrous; leaf-blades spatulate 

 or linear-spatulate, at least those of the fascicles pear-shaped or like a rice grain 

 but a little flattened, that is very thick and watery, 1^2 to 3 or 6 lines long, on short 

 almost filiform petioles i^ to Y^ line long; flowers 1 or 2 in a place, either 4 or 

 5-merous (even on same branchlet) ; calyx very small, glabrous, submembranous, 

 Ve to 14 length of corolla, its teeth almost minute ; corolla white-lavender, aging 

 buckskin-color, narrowly tubular-funnelform, glabrous (or the lobes very minutely 

 ciliate), 4 to 6 lines long, the lower part of its tube about % line wide, the limb 2 to 

 2y2 lines wide, its lobes l^ as long as corolla ; stigma green ; berry elliptic, ly^ to 2 

 lines long, red or at first chrome-yellow. 



Dry stony hills, 200 to 5000 feet: Mono and Inyo Cos.; Mohave Desert; cis- 

 montaue Southern California ; Colorado Desert. East to Utah and New Mexico, 

 south to Lower California and Mexico. Jan.-May. 



Field note. — The numerous branehlets are densely crowded with axillary fascicles of jug-like 

 or pouch-like leaves, suggestive, when crushed, of tiny bags of water, pearshaped-globose but 

 slightly flattened. 



Locs. — Mono and Inyo Cos.: Mono Lake (Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 19:274) ; Black Canon, White 

 Mts., Duran 577; Hanaupah Canon, Panamint Mts., Jepson 6987. Mohave Desert: Granite Mts. 

 (s. of Avawatz Mts.), Jepson 17,309; Dominguez Ranch, Providence Mts., Jepson. 18,269; Old Dad 

 Mts., Jepson 20,408 ; Ord Mt., Jepson 5932 ; Barstow, Jepson 6612 ; Kramer, Jepson 5328 ; Lan- 

 caster, Parry. Cismontane S. Cal.: Aguanga, sw. Riverside Co., Howell 3274; San Diego (Ann. 

 Mo. Bot. Gard. 19:277). Colorado Desert: Com Sprs., Chuckwalla Mts., Mum 4- Keck 4850; 

 Vallecito, e. San Diego Co., Jepson 8585; Mountain Springs grade (summit), e. San Diego Co., 

 Jepson 11,811. 



Tax. note. — The leaves of Lycium andersonii are thick-teretish and fleshy, sometimes a little 

 plane but always succulent. The leaves of Lycium torreyi are broad, plane, not fleshy, typically 

 glaucesoent in appearance. The corolla-tube of Lycium andersonii is narrow, almost filiform at 

 base, the corolla-lobes glabrous or minutely and sparsely ciliate. The corolla-tube of Lycium 

 torreyi is obviously a little broader than in L. andersonii, the corolla-lobes with a ciliate border 

 which is typically felty-cUiate 



Var. deserticola (Hitchcock) Jepson comb. n. Very leafy-fasciculate, the leaf-blades 

 narrow-oblanceolate, thin, plane, % to 1% inches long, % to 1% lines broad. — Southern Sierra 

 Nevada in Kern Co. (Poso Mine, Greenhorn Mts., C. N. Smith 182) ; Mohave Desert (Old Dad 

 Mts., Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 19:280) ; north and west sides of the Colorado Desert (Riverside Mts., 

 Jepson 5240; Shavers Well, Jones; San Felipe Caiion, e. San Diego Co., Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 

 19:281) ; cismontane S. Cal. (Riverside, F. M. Seed). The leafage of this variety is entirely dif- 

 ferent from that of the species; so much so that it seems unnatural to include this thin-leaved 

 shrub and the succulent-leaved L. andersonii in one taxonomic unit. 



Refs. — Lycium andersonii Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7:388 (1868), type loc. Silver Peak (ace. 

 Isotype label), Nev., Anderson 151; Jones, Zoe 5:42 (1900); Jepson, Man. 890 (1925). Var. 

 DESERTICOLA Jepson. L. andersonii f. deserticola C. L. Hitchc, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard: 19:280 

 (1932), type loc. Palm Sprs. of San Jacinto, Parish 4132. L. torreyi var. wrightii Jepson, Man. 

 891 (1925), not L. andersonii var. wrightii Gray. 



7. L. pallidum Miers var. oligospermum C. L. Hitchc. KabbitThoen. (Fig. 

 450.) Densely branched excessively thorny shrub, IY2 to 3 feet high and as broad, 

 the branehlets flexuous; herbage glabrous; leaf -blades oblong-oblanceolate, slightly 

 glaucous, % to 1 inch long (the lower leaves of young plants spatulate-obovate, 

 1 to 2% inches long) ; flowers pendulous from the under side of the spreading 

 branches ; calyx less than half the length of the corolla, its lobes oblong, spreading, 

 equaling or exceeding the calyx-tube; corolla narrow-campanulate, pure white to 

 lavender, fading to pale yellow, 7 to 9 lines long, its limb 7 to 9 lines broad ; stamens 



