28 THE GENUS PHORADENDKON 



Nutting, 1894). Hesperia (Trelease, 1892). San Jacinto Reserve (Lei- 

 berg, 3161}, Los Angeles Co. (Elmer, 3607; Hasse; Abrams & Mc- 

 Gregor, 543; Chamberlain). San Bernardino Mts. (Coville & Funston, 

 130). San Felipe (Palmer, 442). San Diego Co. (Orcutt; Mearns, 3013, 

 3198; Schoenfeldt, 3045). Sta. Rosa Mts. (Smith, 5483). Kentucky 

 Springs (Davy, 205). Cuyama (Eastwood, 1896). Antelope Valley 

 (Hough; Davy, 2603). Without locality (Kuntze, 3168). MEXICO. 

 SONORA. San Rafael (Jones, 37032, 1882). 



In the south the leaves are prevailingly narrower than in the north, 

 particularly so in Parish, 899, from the San Bernardino Mountains, for 

 which the name f . Parishii may be used. Plate 21. What must be taken 

 for P. densum occurs also in Arizona ( Sedona, near Flagstaff, Hedgcock, 

 4915 in part on Cupressus). 



PHORADENDRON PAUCIFLORUM Torrey. 



Phoradendron pauciflorum Torrey, Bot. Whipple. p. 134. 1857. (Senate 

 Ex. Doc. no. 78. 33d Congress, 2d Session, Report of expl. and surv. 

 . . . Miss, river to the Pacific, vol. 4. pt. 4, Torrey, Description of the 

 general botanical collections) . 



Not forked, the rather lax and long branches without cataphyls, di- 

 oecious. Internodes long for the group (2-4x15-40 mm.), somewhat gran- 

 ular-varnished. Leaves oblanceolate-elliptical, submucronately obtuse, 

 sessile, 5-7x20-30 mm. Spikes mostly solitary, very short (scarcely 5 

 mm.), with 1 or rarely 2 joints 2-flowered when pistillate and about 

 8-flowered when staminate : peduncle scarcely 2 mm. long. Fruit straw- 

 colored, subglobose, 4 mm. in diameter: sepals somewhat parted. 

 Plate 22. 



Californian region ( ? exclusively) on Abies and Cupressus.* The 

 type from California. 



Specimens examined: UNITED STATES. CALIFORNIA. Duffield's 

 Ranch (Bigelow, 2, 1854, to be taken as type). Mariposa (Congdon, 

 1903). Trail to Big Carson (Eastwood, 1897-8 on Cupressus). Kern 

 Co. (Coville & Funston, 1192, 1891; Davy, 2027). Baldy Trail (Mc- 

 Clatchie,1893). Mount Tamalpais (Eastwood, 1898). Bear Valley, San 

 Bernardino Mts. (Parish, 1443; Jones, 1900). San Jacinto Reserve (Lei- 

 berg, 3152). Cajon Pass (Bigelow, Mar. 16, 1854). Cuyamaca Mts 

 (Orcutt, 545). Fish Camp (Hedgcock & Meinecke, 4829). MEXICO. 

 LOWER CALIFORNIA. San Pedro Martir (Brandegee, 1893). 



I do not distinguish from this, except in a somewhat longer basal 

 attenuation of the leaves and the occurrence of about 14 flowers on each 



*Cf. Hedgcock, Phytopathology, vol. 5. p. 179, for a note on the hosts of this 

 and allied species not clearly separated. 



