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9. R. ViCTORis, Greene. (Fig. 84.) 



Shrub 5 feet (15 decimeters) high, branches covered with short, 

 slender prickles and glandular-tipped hairs; leaves and young 

 twigs pubescent and viscid, pedicels short, subtended by 1 or 2 

 green, persistent bracts; flowers greenish, 3^-% inch (12-20 

 mm.) long; calyx tube short, campanulate, lobes greenish, glan- 

 dular pubescent; petals white, thinnish, involute, acute, more or 

 less toothed at apex; anthers white; berry glandular hispid. 



Found in the coast range north of San Francisco, and in the 

 Vaca Mountains, California. 



10. R. HESPERiuM, McClatchie. 



"Shrub 5-10 feet (15-30 decimeters) high, with spreading 

 branches; stems smooth, beset with dark colored spines, which 

 are commonly single, but occasionally double or triple ; leaves, 

 inflorescence and young branches puberulent; leaves thin, %- 

 1% inches (15-45 mm.) broad, 3-5 lobed, the lobes incised; 

 peduncles 1-2 flowered, 2-3 lines (4-6 mm.) long; pedicels about 

 3 lines (6 mm.) long; bracts broad, fan-shaped, with ciliated 

 membranous pinkish margin; flowers about % inch (10 mm.) 

 long; calyx tube campanulate, slightly inflated, about one line 

 (2 mm.) long; segments from greenish white to greenish red, 3-4 

 lines (6-8 mm.) long; petals white, tinged with red, about half 

 the length of the sepals, cuneate-oblong, 2- or 3 -toothed, slightly 

 involute; filaments about half longer than petals; anthers ovate- 

 oblong, mucronate, greenish ; ovary densely echinate, bristles 

 greenish red, mature berry very prickly, X~% inch. (12-20 mm.) 

 in-diameter." — McClatchie, Erythea, 2 : 77. 



Described from southern California. Found in shady canons. 

 I have not seen specimens, but it appears to agree with this section 

 in the mucronate anthers, though perhaps lacking the sagittate 

 base. 



11. R. LOBBii, Gray. (Fig. 85.) 



Shrub 2-5 feet (6 to 15 decimeters) high; branches rigid, zig- 

 zag, without prickles, somewhat resembling those of B. Californi- 

 cum. but the younger ones glandular pubescent, the older dark 

 brown, with scaly bark; thorns slender, mostly triple, varying in 

 color with the bark of the branch from which they emerge ; leaves 

 less than an inch (25 mm.) in diameter, round- cordate, 3-5-cleft, 

 the roundish lobes obtusely toothed, minutely pubescent and 

 glandular on both sides; peduncles long and slender, 1-2 flowered; 

 pedicels short, nearly enclosed by the broad bract; flower pendu- 

 lous, half an inch long beyond the ovary ; calyx lobes lurid purple, 

 pubescent on the outside; petals white, wedge-shaped, irregularly 



