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brous : stems clustered, the widely spreading branches 5—12 ft. long ; 

 thorns single or triple : leaves roundish, 3— 5-lobed ; the lobes incisely 

 toothed : peduncles elongated, slender, drooping, 3— 9-flowered ; pedi- 

 cels with a small broad bract at base : fl. ^3 in. long ; calyx green without, 

 dark livid purple within, the oblong-linear lobes exceeding the campanu- 

 late tube ; petals white, fan-shaped, plane, the margins convolutely 

 overlapping : filiform villous filaments and deeply cleft style long- 

 exserted : berry small, glabrous, black, agreeable. — Along streams and 

 on northward slopes throughout the Coast Range, from Santa Barbara 

 northward. Our description is drawn from the Californian shrub, which 

 differs not a little from the Oregonian type of Douglas' species, and is 

 the R. villosum of Nuttall— possibly a subspecies. Fl. March. Fr. June. 



12. R. leptaiithiim, Gray, PI. Fendl. 53 (1859). Shrub 3—4 ft. high, 

 glabrous, not bristly ; subaxillary spines usually solitary : leaves about 

 I3 in. broad, 5-cleft, the lobes incised : peduncles short, deflexed, 1 — 3- 

 flowered : fi. white, ^4, in. long ; calyx with slender cylindrical tube and 

 spathulate lobes of about equal length ; petals short ; stamens exserted ; 

 style glabrous, undivided : berry small, black, unarmed, glabrous.— 

 Common in New Mexico ; thence westward to the eastern Sierra Nevada. 



13. R. Telutinum, Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. i. 83 (1885) : R. leplan- 

 thum, var. brachyanihum, Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 205. Stout and rigid, 4—6 

 ft. high, with strongly recurved branches, these not prickly, but with 

 solitary stout axillary thorns : leaves very small, deeply 5-cleft, the lobes 

 3-cleft, these and the growing branchlets densely velvety-pubescent or 

 almost glabrous : peduncles short, deflexed, 2-flowered : fl. white or 

 pinkish, velvety on the outside ; calyx-tube campanulate, as broad as 

 long (2 lines), the segments rather longer : ovary white-villous or almost 

 glabrous : berry small, black, velvety-pubescent or glabrate.— Common 

 in the more arid mountain districts, chiefly eastward and northward, 

 beyond our limits ; but also at Tehachapi, Kern Co. Variable in respect 

 to pubescence ; but well marked in floral character and general habit. 



14. R. quercetoram, Greene, 1. c. (1885). The many rigid recurved 

 glabrous branches forming a very compact bush 3—5 ft. high and of 

 equal diameter ; very leafy and wholly glabrous : the subaxillary spine 

 solitary : leaves small, 5-cleft, the lobes narrow, cuneiform, 3-lobed at 

 summit ; petioles slender, 1 in. long ; peduncles slender, short, deflexed, 

 2— 4-flowered : fl. light yellow, very fragrant : calyx-tube cylindraceous, 

 2 lines long, about equalled by the linear-oblong reflexed segments, these 

 a little longer than the petals ; stamens very short and included ; style 

 glabrous, undivided ; ovary glabrous : berry large {% in. thick), globose, 

 glabrous, dark red, pulpy and agreeable.— Very common about El Paso 

 de Robles, and in the interior valleys and low hills of Monterey and San 

 Luis Obispo counties. Fl. March. Fr. May. 



