Contributions to 

 Western Botany, No. U. 



MAR.CVS E, JONES. A. M. 



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Leucothoe Ousickii. 



This species lies between L. acuminata and L. Davisiae. No. 

 2925b Cusick. Siskiyou Mts., on the border of CaHtornia. July 

 30, 1902. 25 to 30 miles from the Loas;. Evergreen, with red- 

 dish stems. 4-6 ft. high; loaves narrowly elliptical, 2-3 inches long-, 

 5-7 lines wide, dark-green, faintly reticulate;!, shortly acute at both 

 ends, obscurely serrulate, ftuocth, on stout and short petioles 1-2 

 .lines long : racenes simple, terminal and in the axils of the upper- 

 most (1-3) leaves, in fruit 4-6 inches long, erect, from broadly 

 deltoid thin scales which also subtend each pedicel : base of raceme 

 not floriferous, but copiously bracted; pedicels slender. 4 lines long, 

 erect, four times the bracts, braceteolate near the base: calyx of 

 thin and triangular-ovate sepals a line long, which are ciliate, 

 widelv spreading and flat; flowers white, triangular-urceolate, 3 

 lines long, smooth; anthers smooth, oblong, not mucronate nor 

 awned, cpeningonly at tip, and with very short, flat and triangular 

 tipes like L. Davisiae; filaments broad, ciliate, subulate from, an 

 abruptly enlarged base ; capsule depressed-globose ; stigmas capi- 

 tate, barelv lobed. Grows on the Illinois river. 



