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sparsely leafy : stipules uarrow, acnmiuate, glandular-^iliate, not revo- 

 lute ; leaflets 3—7, obovate or elliptical, cimeate at base, % — 1 iii- long, 

 serrate and glandular-serrulate : fl. solitary or few in a corymb : calyx- 

 tube glol)ose-oblong, densely glandular-birsute ; lobes broader than in 

 the last, with a longer and more attenuate acumination, — Very common 

 in pine woods at middle elevations of the Sierra from Yuba Co. southward 

 at least to the Soda Springs west of Donuer Lake, but apparently seldom 

 ■collected ; and Mr. Rattan obtained it first on Trinity River. A well 

 marked species, confluent with no other, and of very special habitat. 



4. R. ^ratissliua. Erect, miich branched, 4—6 ft. high, well armed 

 with long straight rather weak prickles of which, on vigorous growing 

 shoots only, two very long ones are infrastipular : foliage thinnish, 

 bright green, glandular, very fragrant, the rachis decidedly prickly 

 beneath and. with the stalklets, stipules and calyx-lotes, very minutely 

 velvety-tomeutose : .stipules not glandular, those of the flowering branch- 

 lets entire, of the growing shoots deeply and closely serrate-incised ; 

 leaflets 5—7, ovate, acute, % — % in. long, regularly simply and rather 

 deeply serrate, the teeth somewhat falcate : fl. 3 or more in a corymb, 

 1 — lig in. broad : calyx-tube globose ; lobes with foliaceous tips. — 

 Borders of wet meadows, and about springy places in the mountains of 

 Kern Co. A shrub with the habit of R. Californica, but strikingly 

 unlike any forms of that species in that the almost glabrous thin foliage 

 is of a bright sweetbriar green, with much of the glandular indument and 

 fragrance of that species. June, July. 



5. R, Califoruica, Ch. & Schl. in Linna^a, ii. 35 (1827). Erect, 

 branching 3 — 8 ft. high ; prickles few, stout, usually recurved, mostly 

 infrastipular in pairs : foliage deep green, of firm texture, more or less 

 glandular and tomeutose ; stipules entire : leaflets 5 — 7, ovate or oblong, 

 acute or obtuse, the serratures mostly simple, spreading rather than 

 falcate-incurved : corymb few- or many-flowered ; pedicels pubescent 

 and glandular ; calyx-lobes foliaceous-tipped : fruit globose, 4 — 6 lines 

 thick, the persistent lobes erect. — The common wild rose of middle and 

 southerly parts of the State ; most frequent along the seaboard and on 

 banks of rivers in the interior. On the lower San Joaquin, among trees, 

 we have seen it fifteen feet high, and showing a tendency to climb, the 

 specific characters remaining the same. 



Order V. C A L Y C A N T H E /E . 



Lindley in Botanical Register, under t. 404 (18] 9). 



A small order, placed here on account of the analogy subsisting 



between it and some Rosaceae in point of floral structure ; but probably 



in no wise related to that order. It is represented in our district by one 



species of the genus Calycanihns. 



