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CUCURBITACEAE 



Var. agrestis Jepson. Fruits sinallor uitli fi-w short spines; seeds 1 to 4. — Inner South 

 Coast Kan^'o ami bordering San Joaquin plain from Contra Costa Co. to western Fresno Co. 



Var. inermis Jepson comb. n. Corolla of staminatc flowers "bright white"; stigma depressed, 

 nearly sessile ; fruit sparsely short-spiny. — Mariposa Co. foothills. 



Kefs. — EcniN0CY.STis Vabacea Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. ser. 4, 12:154, pi. 9 (1859), type 

 from Cal.: Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 320 (1901), ed. 2, 270 (1911), Man. 601, fig. 048 (1925). 

 Micrampclis fahacca Greene, Pitt. 2:129 (1890). Mcparrhiza calif ornica Torr. ; Wats. Proc. 

 Am. Acad. 11 : 138 (1876), "Petaluma and Sonoma". Var. agkestis Jepson (by error "Greene"), 

 Man. 061 (1925). MicrampcUs fahacca var. agrestis Greene, Fl. Fr. 236 (1891), type loc. "San 

 Joaquin Valley", that is, more specifically eastern Contra Costa Co. (Man. Ecg. S. F. Bay 143). 

 E. scahricUa Eastw. Bull. Torr. Club 30:500 (1903), type loc. Zapato Chino Creek, sw. Fresno Co., 

 T. Brandcgcc. Var. inermis Jepson. E. inermis Congd. Zoe 5:134 (1901), type loc. Sherlock, 

 Mariposa Co., Congdon. 



2. E. macrocarpa Greene. Chilicothe. Stems 10 to 20 feet long; leaf-blades 

 usually deeply lobcd, 3 to 8 inches wide; corolla saucer-shaped; fruit broadly 

 oblong, densely spiny, 3 to 4 

 inclies long, 2 to 3 inches in 

 diameter; spines stout, very 

 unequal, not very rigid, Yo 

 to 1 (or 11 2) inches long; 

 ovary 2 to 4-eelled; style ob- 

 vious (14 line long), bear- 

 ing 3 staminodial scales; 

 seeds 12 to 14, oblong-cylin- 

 dric, nearly terete at one 

 end, flattened at the other, 

 6 to 13 lines long, 5 to 6 lines 

 wide. 



Hill slopes and ralley 

 flats, 100 to 1500 feet : along 

 the south coast from Mon- 

 terey Co. to San Diego Co.; 

 mountains on the west side 

 of the Colorado Desert. 

 South to Lower California. 

 Jan.-Apr. 



Logs. — Pt. Sur, T. Brande- 

 gee; Sycamore Canon, Santa Inez 

 Mts., Jepson 9134; Santa Eosa 

 Isl., T. Brandegee ; Santa Cata- 

 lina Isl., Gondii ; Santa Monica, Barber 52 ; Arroyo Seco, Los Angeles, Braunton 797; Claremont, 

 C. F. Baker 3054; Cajon Pass, Jepson 6122; San Bernardino, Parish 3633 ; Mission Creek, ne. of 

 Garnet, w. end Conchilla Eange, Clary 1476 ; San Diego, Dunn. 



Eefs. — EcHiNOCYSTis MACROCARPA Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 1:188 (1885), type loc. Cuca- 

 monga, sw. San Bernardino Co., Bigelow ; Jepson, Man. 602 (1925). Megarrhisa macrocarpa 

 Eattan; "Wats. Bull. Torr. Club 14:158 (1887). Micrampelis macrocarpa Greene, Pitt. 2:129 

 (1890). Micrampelis leptocarpa Greene, Pitt. 2:282 (1892), type loc. "West Canon (Tahquitz 

 Canon), near Palm Sprs., Mt. San Jacinto, TV. G. Wright. E. macrocarpa f. leptocarpa Parish, 

 Muhl. 3:125 (1907). 



3. E. horrida Congd. Sierra Man-root. (Fig. 253.) Stems 6 to 10 feet 

 long; leaf -blades deeply lobed, 4 to 8 inches wide, the upper surface pustulate- 

 scaberulous; corolla bright white, campanulate; pistillate flowers with abortive 

 stamens; fruits 4 to 6 inches long, 2 to 3 inches in diameter, strongly spinose; spines 

 % to 11/4 inches long; seeds 8 to 10, oblong, one end terete, the other flattened, 1 to 

 ll^ inches long, 7 to 8 lines wide. 



Hill slopes, 1000 to 3000 feet: Sierra Nevada foothills from Tuolumne Co. to 

 Tulare Co. Feb.-Apr. 



Fig. 253. EcHiNOCTSTis HOERiDA Congd. a, pistillate fl., X 

 1; fc, sect, of fr. stem, X Vi. 



