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high, variously branched: subaxillary spines 1-3, usually stout and de- 

 flexed, leaves roundish, more or less cordate, 3-5-lobed, the lobes crenately 

 incised ; peduncles slender, usually 3-flowered : bracts broad, scarious : 

 lobes of the calyx ligulate about twice the length of the campanulate tube : 

 stamens exserted ; anthers small, oval ; style about equalling the stamens 

 and calyx, 2-parted, hairy below; fruit small black. Brit. Columbia to 

 California. 



^ ++ -M- +* Flowers large and showy. 



E. LobMi Gray Am. Nat. x, 274. Stems 2-6 feet high, much branched, 

 subaxillary spines 3, usually unequal: leaves roundish, truncate or slightly 

 cordate at base, more or less pubescent and glandular : peduncle almost 

 filiform, 1 -3-flowered ; bracts broad about equalling the short pedicels : 

 calyx campanulate, pubescent, the dark red ligulate lobes about equalling 

 the" tube, twice as long as the white truncate cuneate petals, strongly re- 

 flexed; stamens long exserted, -slightly unequal; anthers nearly orbicular: 

 style about equalling the longest stamens : fruit 6-8 lines in diameter 

 densely glandular hispid. Washington to California, west of the Cascade 

 Kange. 



K. Marshall!! Greene Pitt, i, 31 (?). Stems 2-4 feet high; subaxillary 

 spines 3; roundish, 3-5-lobed, crenately toothed, an inch or less in diam- 

 eter, smooth not glandular; peduncles short, uiually 1-flowered : bracts 

 broadly lanceolate: calyx dark red, campanulate, 8-12 lines long, the 

 lanceolate acute lobes much longer than the tube : petals oblong, rounded 

 at the summit, 2-3 lines long, yellow : stamens and style exserted but 

 shorter than the calyx-lobes; anthers oblong, obtuse at both ends, fruit 

 large an inch long or more, covered with fleshy spines but not glandular. 

 In forests in the Siskiyou Mountains. 



-*- -4- Anthers sagittate, mucronate-tipped. 

 +* Bracts presistent. 



K. Menziesii Pursh. Fl. 732. Stems 5-10 feet high, branches strongly 

 hispid or varying to glabrous : leaves deeply 3-cleft, the lobes coarsely in- 

 cised, usually soft-pubescent beneath: pedicels slender, 1-2-flowered; 

 bracts broadly ovate, acute; calyx 6-10 lines long, the lanceolate obtuse 

 lobes twice as long as the campanulate tube : petals broadly cuneate, 

 rounded at the summit; stamens equalling the calyx, anthers lanceolate, 

 a line long, style longer than the stamens; ovary densely glandular hispid. 

 In the coast ranges, Southern Oregon to California. 



n- +> Bracts deciduous. 



R. amictum Greene 1. c. 69. Stems 2-4 feet high, intricately branched : 

 subaxillary spines 1-3, slender: leaves orbicular to oblong, less than an 

 inch long, 3-5-lobed, the lobes crenately toothed: peduncle short, usually 

 one-flowered; bract broadly ovate, longer than the very short pedicel, 

 clasping the ovary when young : calyx 6-10 lines long, the lanceolate acute 

 lobes but little longer than the narrow tube : fruit densely spinose. On 

 dry rocky ridges, southwestern Oregon and adjacent California. 



ORDER XXXIII. CRASSULACE^ D. C. FL France, iv, 382. 



Succulent or fleshy herbs with simple leaves without stipules 

 and usually cymose inflorescence. Sepals 4-5, rarely 3-20, 

 imbricate in the bud, more or less united at base, persistent. 

 Petals as many as sepals and alternate with them, not unguicu- 

 late, imbr icate in the bud, inserted on the base of the calyx, 

 sometimes united at base. Stamens as many as petals and 



