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ell's Canyon, on the northward slope, of its fruit; this being destitute of 



and, as Dr. Merriam informs me. at dot-like glands, and the surface of 



an elevation of about 300 meters- the capsular body rising- in blister- 



Flower.ng specimens were distributed like elevations between the uncom- 



from this station by C. P. Baker, col- monly slender and low transverse 



lected by himself in April, 1903, the ridges, all manifestly quite normal-" 



distribution numbers being 2942 and Ptclea cycloloma. 



2943. The species appears to occur Greene, CNH 10:75 (16 Jl 1906;, 



at various other places up and down describes this as follows: "Young 



the Coast Range of middle Californ.a. twigs and other growing parts puber- 



"Number 5564 of Heller & Brown, ulent, even older twigs and branches 



from the Marysville Buttes, distrib- puberulent, dark-brown, tuberculate, 



uted for P. crenulata, I suspect may but mature foliage more obscurely 



represent another and a more local pubescent or puberulent, yet not 



species; but the specimens are, as glabrous on either face, wholly of a 



usual, in flower only. A like degree light but dull green; terminal leaflet 



of uncertainty exists in relation to a oblong, lanceolate, obtuse, but at base 



sheet from Kaweah, Tulare County, abruptly acutish, 4.5 to 6 cm. long, 



collected by Miss Eastwood, April, somewhat crenulate, the pair about 



1895." two-thirds as large, only slightly in- 



Ptelea bullr.ta. equilateral: samaras variable as to 



Greene, CNH 10:75 (16 Jl 1906), de- size, the smaller 1 cm., the larger 1.5 



scribes this as follows: "Shrub cm., wide, orbicular, not notched or 



dioecious, the rna^e not known: grow- lobed or truncated at either end; 



ing twigs obscurely puberulent, rugu- body unusually large, commonly al- 



lose; older branches dark-brown, most orbicular, its breadth nearly 



glabrous: leaves of a light and vivid twice, that of the wing, also unusually 



green, lighter beneath, glabrous on thiclc and double convex, with no 



both faces except for a sparse short trace of circumvallation, only a low 



pubescence on the midvein beneath, transverse rugosity but with copious 



sparsely gland-dotted and very min- and prominent gland-dots, 



utely densely punct'culate; terminal "Mountrins near Mariposa in the 



leaflet elliptic-lanceolate, 5 to 6.5 Sierra Nevada, Cal'fornia, collected 



cm. long, acute at both ends, not by J. W. Congdon, the fruiting speci- 



very distinctly subserrulate, the pa r rr.ens in July, 1893, the flowering in 



more then two-thirds as large, more May, 1894; type in the Herbarium of 



or less inequilateral; flowers many, in the California Academy, sheet No. 



ample loose subcorymbose panicles, 12214. The flowering specimens are 



but these sessile, not equalling the from the pistillate shrub, and the 



foMag-e: samaras suborb'cular or in- stamens therefore unknown. The 



dining to round-obovate, abruptly species is most interesting, inasmuch 



acute, the base truncate or subcor- as its fruits, with their unusually 



date, about 1.5 cm. long, 1.2 cm. wide large and thick nut-like body and 



abo^e the middle; body large, round- narrow wing, make some approach, 



ovate, much wider than the width of not, however, any near approach, to 



the wing, puberulent, faintly circum- those of the more southerly P. 



vailate, gland-dotted only while im- a.^tera." 



mature, in rretur'ty finely transverse- Genns HYDROCOTYL.E Tonrnefort. 



r-igope. but the interval.-? between the L, sp pi 1:234 (1753). 



r:r!ge3 elevated above them as if in- Per herbs without erect sts, the 



fiated. peds and Ivs from creeping sts or rt- 



"Anderson's Ranch, Lower . Lake, stocks: Ivs simple, round in outline, 



Lake County, California, May 11, 19^1, long-petioled: fls in a sm umbel, or 



s Bowman; type specimen in the disposed in 2 or more umbels which 



11-rbprium of the California Acad- are prolifierous one above the other: 



e<ny; no others seen. The species is fr flattened laterally, suborbicular, 



a most notable one in the characters acutely margined and with 1 or 2 ribs 



