MT MEE C ee ia h ee WERE CM ea ee NOCT 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. Ay! 
fruited umbel on a peduncle about as long as the petiole; 
fruit large, 3-seeded. 
Known only from the mountains of Placer County, Cali- 
fornia, where it was collected in 1892, by Mr. A. M. Carpenter 
It was distributed under the name of R. Purshiana, and is 
related to that species; but the remarkable cuneate cut of the 
leaves, being very constant, forbids its being referred to that 
species; which also does not connect with this geograph- 
ically. 
 RuHaMwus Smitui. Deciduous shrub, with short stout 
glabrous rather densely leafy and fructiferous branchlets: 
bud-scales obtuse, densely woolly-ciliate: flowers appearing 
with the undeveloped leaves, and mostly solitary in their 
axils: mature leaves 1 or 2 inches long, lanceolate, scarcely 
acute, finely serrulate: flowers 4-merous: berries on very 
short pedicels, black when ripe, 2-seeded. 
Shrub of southwestern Colorado, at Pagosa Springs, B. H. © 
Smith, and near Durango, Miss Eastwood. Mr. Brandegee 
has also distributed it as “ R. Californica," to which it bears 
no resemblance, having for its only near relative the eastern 
R. lanceolata. The specimens from which the diagnosis is 
drawn are in the herbarium of Prof. T. C. Porter. 
EnRrocoNUM pENsUM. Near E. polycladon, but only 6 or 8 
inches high and very diffusely and compactly branched from 
the base, the root annual: radical leaves ovate or oblong, 
scarcely 4 inch long, narrowed to a petiole somewhat longer: 
branches lanate-tomentose, short-jointed and leafless below, 
the bracts at the nodes triangular-subulate, spreading or re- 
curved at tip; involucres few-flowered, virgately arranged 
on the more or less dichotomous branches and branchlets; 
perigonium rose-color, very broadly campanulate above a 
distinct suprabasal constriction, the segments subequal, the 
outer obovate-flabelliform, the inner much narrower, spatu- 
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