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8. D. QUERCETORUM. Leaves oblong or oblong-elliptic on 
flowering branches and about 23 inches long, those of sterile 
shoots exactly and rather narrowly lanceolate, about as long, all 
mucronately acute, erose-denticulate or entire, very glaucous, 
thinnish but coriaceous, the feather-veins all breaking into and 
forming part of the very conspicuous though rather delicate 
reticulation, this smooth on those of old shoots, scabrous 
on those of new ones: corolla nearly 2 inches wide: pods 24 
inches long, more slenderly pointed and less strongly ribbed 
than in the other species. 
Shrub common among the hills of the San Francisco Bay 
region and northward, doubtless occurring in the Sierra foot- 
hills, also, northward. The type is a shrub of my own collect- 
: ing on the Oakland Hills, 21 Aug., 1888; the same also, but in 
_ young leaf, and copiously flowering, Mt. Tamalpais, 3 March, 
1889. Its glaucous foliage, with also a far more delicate and 
less elevated pale reticulation, no less than the size and the 
outline of the leaf, distinguish it from D. rigida, and other 
characters, I doubt not, will be detected in further confirma- 
tion of this species of the northerly habitat. 
9. D. PALLIDA. Low shrub with few and stout rather dense'y 
leafy branches, each with a rather long terminal peduncle: 
leaves hard-coriaceons and very rigid, almost white with bloom, 
ł to 14 inches long, from obovate in the lowest, to oval, ovate- 
elliptic and elliptic, pungently acute, only the midvein un- 
broken, all the lateral nerves soon merging themselves in 
the very prominent and regular low reticulation, this on the 
lower face minutely scabro-puberulent: pods 2 inches long: 
- flowers and seeds not seen. 
Mt. St. Helena, middle California, 29 June, 1889, T. S. Bran- 
degee; type in U. S. Herb. Probably from near the arid 
< summit of the mountain, on some open slope looking south- 
~ ward; the almost white and somewhat bullate-rugose as well 
reticulate foliage recalling that of some shrubby salvias. 
