452 Busn-FBUiTs 



anthers elliptical -oblong, very glabrous and smooth, dorsal base 

 sagittate, ventral base rounded; style much longer than the 

 stamens, 2-eleft; leaves 2-2X centimeters in diameter, 

 flowers nodding; calyx, including ovary, about \% centimeters 

 long, minutely pubescent. 



Northwestern North America. 



The original description and figure show this to be very close 

 to B. Calif ornicum; perhaps it should be referred to that species. 



7. R. AMICTUM, Greene. 



Shrub with the aspect- of R. Menziesii; branches upright, 

 smooth, straight or zigzag, thorns mostly triple, shorter than in 

 B. Menziesii; leaves small, %-l inch (12-25 cm.) in diame- 

 ter; peduncles 1- or 2 -flowered; pedicels short, subtended by 

 large, deciduous, lobed bracts, which envelop the ovary; flowers 

 dark purple, %-% inch (10-20 mm.) long, tube narrowly 

 companulate, much longer than in B. Menziesii, lobes reflexed in 

 flower, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, exceeding the sagittate, 

 whitish anthers; petals white or pinkish, % inch (3 mm.) long; 

 ovary ciliate-prickly ; berry prickly but not densely so. 



California and Oregon. Closely related to B. CaUfornicum . 



If attractive in habit and adapted to cultivation, this would 

 be a desirable flowering shrub. Its flowers are scarcely less 

 striking than those of B. speciosum. 



8. R. WiLSONiANUM, Greene.* 



"Rigid and low shrub, with smooth branchlets and 1-3 

 spines at each node; growing parts and leaves more or less 

 villous with a short pubescence; leaves small, rounded, 5-lobed, 

 the lobes and teeth acute; peduncles rather slender, mostly 

 3-flowered; bracts persistent, broadly ovate, acuminate-cuspidate, 

 villous; ovary short -prickly, scarcely villous; calyx dark red, 

 the cylindric or slightly funnel-form tube 3 lines (6 mm.) long; 

 segments acute, about as long; petals scarcely a line long, 

 thinnish white with red veins, cuneate- quadrate, nearly truncate 

 and scarcely erose at apex, and with narrow and abruptly inflexed 

 margins; filaments scarcely equalling the petals; anthers con- 

 nivent, with prominent cusp bent outwards." 



This species was founded on a single specimen ^-eceived and 

 grown at the Botanic Garden at Berkeley, Cal. I have not seen 

 "specimens. It was first referred to B. amictum by its author in 

 Flora Franeiscana, hence must be very similar to that species. 



*Erythea 3 :70. 



