34 PITTONIA. 



O Ui-tvy J^J^Aq 



Moll 



Desert on tlie Avestward side, and at a point only a few miles 

 southward from Tehachapij in moist meadow lands near 

 streamlets ; and the growth of the j)lnnt is fairly luxuriant. 

 It is also abundant on the mountains in the northern part of 

 Arizona, varying considerably in size, comparative breadth of 

 foliage, and even in the form of the perianth segments (these 

 almost linear in narrow-leaved forms, oWong, or even obovate- 

 oblong in the broad-leaved states) ; but the habit of the plant, 

 its peculiar pallor and the blackish jmr-ple of its berries are 

 thorouglily constant marks. Farther northward, in Montana 

 and Idaho, it is larger and less variable in size and form of 

 leaves, and is as generally prevalent in mountain woods and 

 by streams- The leaves in the species I find altogether 

 sessile ; so that Nuttall's name for the preceding is in no wise 

 characteristic. 



U. RACE3I0SUM (L.), Britton, Trans. N. Y. Acad. viii. 74. 

 Although Mr. Watson limits the westward range of this to 

 the Winnipeg Valley, I should say we have plenty of it on 

 the Pacific coast. All the '' Smilacina amplextcauUs'' of col- 

 lectors in Oregon and Washington seems to me to be a good 

 deal more like the eastern species ; indeed, inseparable from 

 it, A fine specimen, from Goldstream, Vancouver Island, 

 May, 1887, by Mr. Macoun (labeled Sfrcpiopns amplexi- 

 foUus), I refer without any hesitancy to f7. raccmosum. The 

 leaves are rather broader than in New England specimens, 

 but no other difference can be noted. Dr. Britton makes the 

 same disposal of the plant of the Mogollon Mountains in 

 southern Arizona ; but my own specimens from the Pinos 

 Altos in southern New IMexico (1881), have the narrow and 

 open inflorescence, though not the folinge nor the habit of 

 U. amplexicaide, to which species Dr. Gray referred it. 



V. AMPLEXICAULE (Xutt.), Greene, Bull. Torr. Club, 1. c. 

 This differs from the preceding in more respects than have 

 hitlierto been enumerated. The broad pointless leaves are 



