BOT.-VOL. II.] PARISH— WESTERN AMERICAN SOLANUMS. 167 



Habitat: Central California, near the coast. 



California (586 Coulter [G]); 



Monterey County (Pacific Valley, Miss Eastwood, May, 

 1897, type [A, P]) (Santa Lucia Mountains, Willow 

 Creek, R. A. Plaskett, Feb., 1898 [A]); 



Marin County (Mt. Tamalpais, Miss Eastwood, May 30, 

 1896 [A]). 



1/ 5. Solanum xanti Gray. 



Solatium xaiiti Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., Vol. XI, 1876, p. 90; in Brew. & 



Wats. Bot. Calif., Vol. I, 1876, p. 539; Syn. Fl., Vol. II, Pt. i, 1878, p. 



229. Davidson, PI. Los Angeles Co., p. 21 (1896). McClatchie, Fl. 



Pasadena, p. 641 {1895). Coville, Death Valley Kept., pp. 167, 251 



(1893)- 



Stems slender, 3-10 dm. long, woody, or at high altitudes herbaceous from 



a lignescent base, the younger angled, moderately villous, with many-celled, 



unbranched hairs, most of them gland-tipped; leaves ovate, ovate-oblong to 



oblong-lanceolate, 1-4 cm. long, acute or obtuse at base; corolla 1-2 cm. 



wide; mature fruit apparently light green in color. 



Hairs with some of the cells atrophied, and sometimes a few are once- 

 branched. 



Habitat: Throughout California, except in the desert 

 region, ascending to 6,500 feet altitude in the mountains, 

 and reaching the borders of Arizona and Lower California. 

 ' California (428 Palmer, 1876 [N] ; 186 Thomas Bridger 

 [N], a canescently tomentose form); central California 

 (429 Palmer, 1876 [N]) Sierra Nevada Mountains 

 (Lemmon, 1875 [N] ) ; 



Alameda County (Piedmont, F. W. Koch, March, 1895 



[U]); 



Calaveras County (1358 Davy, May, 1898 [P, U]. 

 "Viscid to the touch, herbage malodorous;" leaves thin, 

 neurose) ; 



Fresno County (Fort Miller, Heermann, July, 1853 

 [N]) (Toll House, 2,050 feet altitude, 7 Hall «& Chandler, 

 June, 1900 [P]) (Pine Ridge, 5,000 feet altitude, 93 

 Hall «& Chandler, June, 1900 [P]) (Dinkey Creek, 

 5,300 feet altitude, 355 Hall & Chandler, June, 1900 

 [P]) (North Fork King's River, 6,000 feet altitude, 448 

 Hall «& Chandler, July, 1900 [P]); 



