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with a more graceful habit, thinner foliage and smaller fruit: very 

 possibly a distinct species. Fl. May, fr. Oct. 



2. S. ciliatus, Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. i. 4. ? Low and diffuse, seldom 1 ft. 

 high, with many very slender but rather rigid leafy branches, and few- 

 flowered clusters : leaves oval, obtuse, 3^ — % in. long, glabrous above, 

 pubescent along the veins beneath, the margin rather densely ciliate: 

 corolla rose-red, 2 lines long, slightly gibbous, cleft to the middle or 

 more deeply, scarcely villous within: fr. small, globose, snow-white. — 

 Common in the Oakland Hills on northward slopes, and answering well 

 to NuttalFs description of >S. ciliatus as to leaf and flower, though he 

 says nothing of the diminutive size, and even compares his Santa Bar- 

 bara shrub with S. vulgaris. We would offer for our plant the provisional 

 name *S'. nanus, in case it should prove distinct. It is earlier in its 

 flowering, and much earlier in maturing its fruit, than the preceding 

 species. Fr. July. 



3.* S. mollis, Nntt. I.e. (1841); Gray, Syn. Fl. i. 14. Stems more surcu- 

 lose and straggling, but several feet long: leaves orbicular or broadly 

 oval, }4 — 1 in. long, soft-pubescent beneath or sometimes on both faces, 

 and even almost tomentose: fl. solitary or in short clusters: corolla 

 open-campanulate, 5-lobed nearly to the middle, pubescent within: 

 stamens and style included: berries rather small, white. Var. acutns, 

 Gray, 1. c. Leaves soft-tomentulose, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute 

 at both ends or acuminate, sometimes irregularly and acutely toothed. — 

 Wooded hills of both ranges of mountains; the variety (probably a 

 species, but little known) on Lassen's Peak. 



* * Corolla with more elongated and narrow tube; lobes short. 



4. S. rotuiidifolius, Gray, PI. Wright, ii. 66 (1853), and Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xiv. 11. Low, rather stout and rigid: leaves very pale and glauces- 

 cent, subcoriaceous and more or less densely soft-pubescent: corolla 

 elongated-campanulate, 3 4 lines long; its tube pubescent within below 

 the stamens, twice or thrice the length of the lobes: fr. elliptical, small; 

 nutlets oval, broad and obtuse at both ends. — Chiefly on the eastward 

 slope of the Sierra; but near Tehachapi, Greene; also in Fresno Co. 



5. S. oreophilus, Gray, Journ. Linn. Soc. 1. c. 12 (1875). Erect with 

 rather slender but short spreading or ascending branches: leaves oval 

 or oblong, rather thin, not pale, glabrous or pubescent: corolla tubular- 

 funnelform, 4 — 6 lines long, yellowish-white, with or without a reddish 

 tinge ; tube nearly glabrous within, 4 or 5 times the length of the slightly 

 spreading lobes: nutlets of the elongated drupe oblong, pointed at 

 base. — East of the Sierra only. 



5. CAPRIFOLIUM, Brunfels (Honeysuckle). Erect or trailing or 



