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2 feet high, from a suffratescent base, and with the other 

 parts minutely velvety : iuternodes short, not equalling the 

 sessile leaves : leaflets about 5 pairs, obovate-oblong, mucronu- 

 late : peduncles stout, surpassing the leaves, the 6- to 10- 

 flowered umbel with a large 1-foliolate bract : calyx-teeth 

 subulate-setaceous, ratlier shorter than the oblong-cam panu- 

 late tube : corolla G to 7 lines long, yellow. 



Dr. Palmer's No. 23 (of Watson's list), called "i7osac7.'ia 

 grandifloray'^ I have not seen. It was reported as grooving 

 among trees in the middle of the island/' My plant, of 

 which only one specimen was seen, and that a large bushy 

 one, w^as probably w^holly destroyed by the Indian who, 

 scaling the precipice on the face of which it grew^ gathered 

 everything except the woody base. It is singular among the 

 species of this group in having numerous leaflets equally 

 distributed on- the rachis ; so that only on account of its 

 gland-like stipules is it retained in tliis place. But it is very 

 closely rehited to the next, though more remote from the true 

 L. grandiflorits. 



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23. L. LEUCOPH-EUS. HosacMa grandijlora var. ? antlujl- 

 'oides. Gray, Proc. Pliilad. Acad. 1863, 350. A low velvety- 

 pubesceut plant with short pediTiicles and short internodes, 

 the handsome flowers a half mch long, ochroleucons, changing 

 to red-puri>le. It is common on dry ridges, in the pine and 

 manzanita belt of the Coast Range in California from Solano 

 County, California, southward to San Diego. Mr. Parish 

 sends specimens from his district (No. 1978) with the calyx- 

 teeth remarkably dilated. They are very attenuate lu the 



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more typical forms. 



21. L. GTIANDIFLOEUS. Hosacklfi grandijiorci, Benth. Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. XYii. 366 (183G). A tall slender, usually almost 

 glabrous species, with long interrodes, greatly elongated 

 peduncles, bearing umbels of bright yellow flowers ; the 

 corolla commonly almost an inch long. Far less common 

 than the preceding, and of more limited range. Ihe two 



