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The best specimens I am able to cite of P. leiocarpus are in 
U. S. Herb., from Mendocino, June, 1898, by H. E. Brown, 
and in Herb. Calif. Acad. from Bodega Point, on the same 
strip of coast, 1899, by Miss Eastwood; where there is also 
preserved, and by the same collector, from Point Reyes, 5 
May, 1901, a specimen with rather short, few-jointed car- 
pels, the whole fruit nodding. I scarcely need add that all 
these specimens are from the region whence came the origi- 
nal P. leiocarpus. 
3. P. vittosus. Rather slender, 6 to 10 inches high, 
loosely branched and leafy; leaves small, mostly but an 
inch long, linear, acutish, softly hirsute, not more so mar- 
ginally than superficially, the peduncles not elongated, 
softly and rather copiously hirsute with spreading hairs: 
corolla an inch broad, saucer-shaped, cream-color tinged 
with red, deciduous: stamens exceedingly small, the cuneate- 
oblong rather thin and translucent filaments obtuse at 
summit, rather wider just below it, the extremely small 
oblong anthers either sessile or inserted on a very short 
stipe: immature carpels completely invested and concealed 
by a dense villous pubescence, in maturity more loosely but 
still strongly villous, about 5 to 7-jointed and much con- 
stricted, the joints oblong-ovoid, neither carinate nor of 
uneven surface ; stigmas long and filiform, more than half 
as long as the body of the carpel. 
Bodega Point, Sonoma Co., 1899, Miss Eastwood in Herb. 
Calif. Acad. As to habit not so very unlike P. Californicus; 
but the fine dense villous character of the pubescence of the 
carpels no less than the striking peculiarities of the stamens, 
mark this as one of the best of species. 
4. P. capsutaris. P. Californicus, Curran, Proe. Calif. 
Acad. 2 Ser. i, 240, not Benth. P. Californicus, var. capsu- 
laris, Brandg. Zoe, v. 177. Nearly 2 feet high, loosely 
branched and leafy nearly to the summit; leaves narrow- 
