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lowering, often in bloom in the Bay counties 011 Christmas. According to Parry, this 

 is the species which has heretofore been called A. pungens which is a Mexican species. 



A. viscida, Parry. Distinguished from A. glauca by very viscid pedicels which 

 are four or five times as long as the bracts which are also viscid: flowers light pink: fruit 

 flattened, 3 lines broad, 2 lines high. Foothills of the Sierra Nevada from Central 

 California northward. 



A. Stanfordiana, Parry. Low, branching, 3-5 feet high: leaves bright green on 

 both sides, narrowly ovate to oblanceolate, tapering into a narrowly winged petiole: 

 inflorescence smooth: calyx deep red: corolla pink: style becoming exserted. Near 

 Calistoga, Napa Co. Named for Leland Stanford, Jr. 



RHODODENDRON. 



R. Somonense, Greene. Shrub 2-5 feet high; leaves nearly elliptical, 1 in. long or 

 less, the margin serrulate and ciliolate: flowers rose-color, an inch long or more. (Per- 

 haps a var. of R. occidentale.) Sonoma Co. (Hence the name.) 



Gaultheria is Brossaea, in Bay-Reg. Bot. 



NEWBERRYA. 



According to rules of nomenclature likely to prevail this generic name must give 

 place to Hemitotes, which Gray first gave to the plant discovered by Newberry. H. 

 pumilum, described by Greene, is exactly N. congesta of this Key. (Collected in 

 Mendocino Co. by W. G. Wright.) 



' LENNOACE^E, 



Fleshy root-parasites. Parts of the flower almost always more than 5: stamens ad- 

 herent up to the throat of the tubular corolla. Key to genera and species, p. 140. 



PLUMBAGINACEJE . 



Seashore herbs, with radical leaves. .Flowers regular, all the parts in fives: calyx 

 5-plaited, 5- toothed, persistent: petals with long claws united into a ring at the base: 

 Stamens opposite the petals. Key to genera and species, p. 140. 



Statice Limonium, var. Californica, is Limonium commune, var. Californi- 

 cum, in Bay-Reg. Bot., and Armeria vulgaris is Statice Armeria. 



PKIMULACE^E . 



Herbs, with perfect, regular flowers, well marked, by having the stamens as long as 

 the lobes of the corolla, and opposite to them, inserted on its tube: a single entire style 

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