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them, 5-7-flowered ; pedicels 8- 1 4 mm. long ; bracts broadly ovate, 

 acuminate, 1-3 mm. long, persistent : fruit an oval to spherical berry 

 of rather transparent blood-red color and pleasant acid taste, 7-8 

 mm. in diameter, ripening in southern New Mexico in August ; 

 seeds brownish red, elliptic-ovate, slightly flattened, 4 mm. long 



2 mm. broad. 



Collected at the Mescalero Agency in the White Mountains, 

 August 23, alt. 6300 feet, no. 376. 



I first saw this plant in the Organ Mountains, August 4, 1895, 

 in Fillmore Canon at an altitude of 6300 feet, in company with Mr. 

 E- N. Plank, as told by him in Garden and Forest 9:322, but it 

 is in no way closely related to B. Fendleri as there stated. 



But this is by no means the first time it was collected. Dr. 

 Torrey had what I take to be this plant before him on several oc- 



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casions and confused it with what he finally described as B. Fre- 

 montii Bot. Mex. Bound. 30. 



It is B. pinnata Tovr. Sitgr. Rept. 155 (not Lag.) from near 

 Peach Springs, Ariz., Oct. 24, 185 1, in fruit, and Emory's Recon. 

 137. from the Mimbres Mountains in New Mexico, Oct. 17, 1846 ; 

 B. trifoliate Torr. in Whipples' Rept. (not Moric.) in so far as it re- 

 fers to the above named specimens and probably the Gregg speci- 

 men (which I have not seen); and B. Frcmontii Torr. Bot. Mex. 

 Hound. 30 in part, in so far as it refers to the above named speci- 

 mens, and Capt. E. K. Smith's specimen from Canon of the Guad- 

 oupe in southwestern New Mexico or Sonora, and Thurber's 

 specimen from Mule Spring, New Mexico, May, 1 <S 5 1 , no. 277. 

 B. Frcmontii Britton and Kearney (not Torr.) Trans. N. Y. Acad. 



>C1 - 14: 29. 1894, referring to Mrs. Hoyt's specimen from Ft. 



Apache, Ariz., B. Frcmontii Britton (not Torr.) l.c.B: 62. 1K89- 

 •890, referring to Dr. Mearn's specimen, no. 266, from Ft. Verde, 



^riz., 1884. and Rusby's specimen from Ash Forks, Ariz., June 

 [I i 1893, belong here. 



The characters of the flowers drawn from some of the above 

 mentioned specimens are as follows : 



Two ovate-lanceolate and 3 broadly ovate bracts at the base of 

 the flower, the first adhering to the pedicel, the others sepaloid : 

 Proper sepals petaloid, obovate, 3 of them clawed, 5-7 mm. long, 



3 mm. broad : petals elliptical-obovate, not clawed, slightly shorter 



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