202 SAXIFRAGES. 



Arnot ; neither can one have much doubt. The description, as far as it 

 goes, applies well. Fl. Feb., Mar. Fr. June. 



19. R. subvestitum, H. & A. 1. c. (1840) : Tall leafy open and rather 

 handsome shrub 5 — 10 ft. high ; branches usually more or less setose- 

 hispid ; subaxillary spines 3 or 4, rather slender : leaves more or less 

 glandular-pubescent, very viscid and heavy-scented : peduncles 1 — 3- 

 flowered ; pedicels elongated, the small bract persistent : calyx-tube 

 broadly campanulate, Ijo lines long, the red-purple refiexed segments 

 nearly twice as long : petals white-waxy, truncate, entire, strongly invo- 

 lute ; filaments well-exserted : ovary densely glandular-hairy : berry 

 large, as densely clothed with short stiff gland-tipped hairs ; pulp soft, 

 sweet. — Very common in the Coast Ranges from at least Sonoma Co. to 

 Monterey ; perhaps a variety of the next, but the differences constant, 

 the flower very handsome. Mar. Apr. 



20. R. Meuziesii, Pursh, Fl. ii. 732 (1814) ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxxiii. t. 

 56 : R. ferox, Smith, Rees Oycl. xxix. (1815). Size and habit of the last ; 

 branches strongly hispid, or varying to glabrous : leaves more than 1 in. 

 broad and of greater length than breadth, deeply 3-cleft, the lobes 

 coarsely incised, usually soft-pubescent beneath, seldom or never viscid: 

 peduncles slender, pendulous, 1 — 2-pedicellate above the middle, the 

 bracts small, persistent : fl. ^ in. long ; calyx of a rich red-purple, 

 pubescent exteriorly, the tubular-funnelform tube about half as long as 

 the ligulate reflexed segments : petals large, thickish, truncate, involute, 

 cream-color or whitish : filaments subulate, not exserted, only the large 

 linear-oblong mucronate white anthers borne beyond the petals : ovary 

 densely echinate : fruit very prickly ; pulp not ill-flavored. — From Hum- 

 boldt Co. to Santa Barbara, but in the Bay region seldom met with out- 

 side of Marin Co.; perhaps confluent with the preceding, though the 

 typical forms of the two appear abundantly distinct. 



21. R. amictuiu, Greene, Pittonia, i. 69 (1887) : R. Menziesii, V. & R. 

 Contr. U. S. Herb. i. 2, not Pursh. Shrub 3—4 ft. high, with rigid 

 flexuous widely spreading glabrous or merely pubescent branches ; sub- 

 axillary spines triple, short and stoutish : leaves small (less than 1 in.)o 

 glabrous or pruinose-pubescent, 3 — 5-lobed, often broader than long : 

 peduncles 1 — 2- flowered ; pedicels not at first apparent, the base of the 

 flower enclosed by the large cucullate and more or less caducous bract : 

 calyx dark crimson or red-purple, 34 — % in. long ; tube nearly cylindrical, 

 about equalled by the segments : filaments subulate, little exceeding the 

 truncate erose-dentate involute white petals ; anthers ovate-oblong, 

 mucronate, rose- or deep-red ; ovary echinate ; berry large {}4 in- or 

 more), usually strongly armed with stout prickles ; pulp agreeable. — 

 Very common from Oregon to Kern Co. Calif., but apparently only in 

 the mountains at some distance inland ; abundant at middle elevations 



