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Ceakothus conniyens. a low shrub with elougated nearly 

 simple, w^eak and flexible trailing branches 3 feet long or more, 

 forming a depressed tuft : leaves opposite, coriaceous, cuneate- 

 obovate to oblanceolate, an inch long or less, entire except at 

 the truncate or retuse and mostly 3-toothed apex, glabrous 

 and rugulose above, white-tomentulose between the veins and 

 reinlets beneath : fruit in umbelliform clusters at the ends 

 of short terminal branchlets, small, the conspicuous horns 

 closely appi'essed to the surface of the exocarp, counivent and 

 overlapping at the end of it. 



Calaveras County, Calif., in dry oak woods near the Half- 

 Way House behveen Murphy's and the Big Trees, 10 June, 

 1889. As a new member of tlie Cerastes section, exceedingly 

 well marked in its fruit character, it has a flexibility of stem 

 found in no other northern relative ; although C. verrucosus 

 of the table lands of southern California and of the peninsula 

 is like it in this resi^ect But C.connivens is nearly prostrate 

 through mere lack of firmness or hardness in wood-fibre. It 



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however evinces none of the rooting and matted character of 

 the not yet well described but most distinct C. prodratus. 



Along the bleak summits of the Siskiyou Mountains of 

 southern Oregon I observed in September a Ceanothus nmch 

 like this in leaf character ; the stems depressed but not 

 prostrate, less flexible and stouter. In the absence of fruit 

 one could not say whether it could be referred to this, or 

 whether it would be a stunted groAvth of C. cvneains with 

 truncate and notched leaves. The zeal and diligence of Mr. 

 Howell, who has easier access to the region indicated, it is to 

 be hoped may settle the question by collecting it in fruit 

 some day. 



AsTEK BKicKELLiOTDEs. Sevicocarpifs fomcnielhis, Greene, 



Pitt i, 283. Notwithstanding its coriaceous foliage, silky 

 achenes, and an inflorescence so suggestive of Sericocarpua^ 

 it W71S not well to refer this plant to that genus. Although 

 ray less, it must be rather closely connected with Asfer ledo- 

 pJiylhis, a plant wliich Dr. Gray at length placed in the rank 



