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tomeutose, deciduous on the older branches; leaves short petiolate, sparsely 

 scattered on the branches, with short fasciculate branches in the axils, 

 oval to sub-cordate, 10-25 mm. in length, dull green, smooth above, to- 

 mentose beneath, strongly triple-nerved from the base, irregularly and 

 coarsely glandular serrate, occasionally sub-lobed; inflorescence compact 

 or oval, on short or more or less prolonged peduncles, flowers intense 

 azure; fruit 3 mm. broad, with inconspicuoiis crests at matvirity. — Hab- 

 itat: — known to the writer only from the brown saustone ledges of lone, 

 Amador County, associated ^iih. Arctostaj^hylos myrtifolia, Parrj% flower- 

 ing in March, fruit in May. — Trelease in Proc.DaveniJ. Acad, v, 190 (1SS9). 



In the Botany of California this plant which is found at 

 elevations of 1,000-2,000 feet in the central Sierra Ne- 

 vada, was included under C . sorediatiis. It bears a con- 

 siderable resemblance to forms of C . aziireus, but differs 

 in leaf outline and tomentum. C. azareus Kell. is the 

 older name but was palpably a misprint. Possibly Dr. 

 Kellogg discovered after its publication that there w^as an 

 earlier C . ozureits, for he did not correct the spelling when 

 the first volume of the Proceedings of the California Acad- 

 emy of Sciences was reprinted. C m'tidtis referred in 

 Bot. Cal., Watson's Index and the Kew Index, to Pac. 

 R. Rep. iv, 75, is not to be found at the place cited or 

 elsewhere in the Survey volumes. No. 35, lone, Amador 

 County, type locality. 



In this variety is included a plant from Southern Cali- 

 fornia, which is about equally related to C . tomcntosus and 

 C. hirsntits. It is represented in this distribution by No. 

 33 from San Diego; No. 34 from Encinitas and No. 36 

 from Nuevo, San Diego County; and by No. no from 



fascicles of flowers covered by a single ovate, acvite, pubescent bract, at 

 length descending. — The fruit Ave have not seen. The largest leaves are 

 scarcely one inch in length, five-eights broad, on short petioles from one- 

 eighth to one-quarter of an inch in length; the smaller and more numer- 

 ous fascicles of axillary leaves abut one-quarter to one-half these dimen- 

 sions [Placerville, E. W. Garvitt]. — Proc. Cal. Acad, i, 55 (1855); '2d ed., 

 p. 54. 



t " C. nltidus Torr." Bot. Cal. i, 103 (1880), name only. 



