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Toir.* The shoots of the season are purple, but become ash-gray the following year. 

 The small leaves are green on both sides ; the first which appear from the bud are 3- 

 parted, but all the succeeding are quite divided into three subsessile leaflets. 

 ' 102. Negundo aceroides, Mcench, var. ? ramulis petiolisque cinereo-glaucis : foliis 

 omnibus trifoliolatis. — Mountains east of Santa Fe, on the creek, in low situations ; April, 

 May. Large trees ; the lower part of the trunk generally very knotty, which seems to 

 arise from the many wounds the tree receives early in spring, in order to draw the sap 

 from it, which is collected in cavities cut into the trunk a little beneath the wounded 

 places. — There are fine male and female specimens, and also the fruit. 



CELASTEACE.i:. 



f 103. Staphvlea trifolia, Linn. Twenty-five miles east of Council Grove. 



t 104. Celastrus scasdens, Linn. On the Upper Arkansas. 

 ' 105. Pachystima Myrsinites, Raf. in Amer. Month. Mag. 1818. (Ilex? Mvr- 

 sinites, Pursh. Myginda myrtifolia, Nutt. Gen. 1. p. 109. Orcophila, Ntttt. in Ton: §• 

 Gray, Fl. 1. p. 258, not of Don.) Var. major (Myginda myrtifolia £. major, Hook. Fl. 

 Bor.-Am. 1. p. 120. t. 41, the right-hand figure). Valley of Santa Fe Creek, in the 

 mountains, at the foot of precipices ; May, June, in flower only. A foot high. Leaves 

 thrice the size of those of the ordinary Oregon plant (which I have not seen so strongly 

 serrate as in Hooker's figure), the larger even an inch and a half long, and more inclined 

 to be acute ; the flowers also rather larger. 



RHA1IXACE.E. 



106. Ceanothus Fendleri (sp. nov.) : intricato-ramosissimus ; ramis ramulisque 

 teretibus gracilibus saepe spinescentibus cinereo-puberulis demum glabratis laevibus ; foliis 

 parentis (i-i unc. longis) ovalibus scu ellipticis obtusis integerrimis eglandulosis trinervi- 

 is subtus sericeo-canescentibus supra glabriusculis viridibus ; glomerulis densis sessili- 

 bus ; floribus glabris albis. — Mountains east of Santa Fe, in sunny places ; June (in 

 flower), and July, in fruit. Shrub about a foot and a half high and two feet in diame- 

 ter. — Allied to C. depressus, Benth. PI. Hartiv. no. 29; but much more slender, the 

 Thyme-shaped leaves smaller and not glandular, &c. Fruit about as large as in C. 

 Americanus. 



* To this species belongs A. Douglasii, Hook. ! PL Geyer, 1. c. p. 11. t. 6 ; as already stated in Suppl. to 

 Fl. N. Amer. p. 684. Geyer's specimens, like those which 1 also have from Mr. Spalding, differ only in their 

 larger leaves. 



