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5. R. Victoris, Greene. Shrub 5 ft. high; branches very prickly: 

 leaves and growing branchlets pubescent and viscid: pedicels short, 

 deflexed, with 1 or 2 persistent bracts and as many short-pedicellate 

 greenish flowers J^ M i n> long- calyx-tube short-campanulate, much 

 exceeded by the greenish lobes: petals \% lines long, white, thinnish 

 involute, acute, more or less toothed at apex; filaments stoutish, little 

 surpassing the petals; anthers large, subsagittate, mucronate; berry 

 glandular-hispid. By streams in the Coast Range north of San Fran- 

 cisco, and in the Vaca Mts. 



6. K. Californicum, Hook. & Arn. Shrub 24 ft. high, with very 

 rigid and Jlexuous glabrous branches: leaves small, 3 5-lobed and incised, 

 sparsely glandular-puberulent when young, not at all viscid or heavy- 

 scented, in maturity glabrous: peduncles very short, 1 3-flowered; the 

 very short pedicels each with a small round-ovate bract beneath : calyx- 

 tube very short, the reflexed lurid-purple segments thrice as long; 

 petals white, thick, strongly involute, truncate and erose-toolhed at sum- 

 mit; filaments stout, thrice the length of the petals, the anthers ovate- 

 oblong, mucronate, reddish; ovary glandular-hispid: berry large, prickly. 

 On bleak hills. Fl. Feb., March. 



7. R. subvestitum, Hook. & Arn. Tall leafy open and rather hand- 

 some shrub 5 10 ft. high; branches usually more or less setose-hispid: 

 leaves more or less glandular-pubescent, very viscid and heavy-scented: 

 peduncles 1 3-flowered; pedicels elongated: calyx-tube broadly cam- 

 panulate, l l / lines long, the red-purple reflexed segments nearly twice 

 as long: petals white- waxy, truncate, entire, strongly involute; filaments 

 well-exserted: ovary densely glandular-hairy: berry large, as densely 

 clothed with short stiff gland-tipped hairs; pulp soft, sweet. Very 

 common in the Coast Ranges from at least Sonoma Co. to Monterey. 

 March, April. 



8. R. Menziesii, Pursh. Size and habit of the last: leaves more 

 than 1 in. broad and of greater length, deeply 3-cleft, the lobes coarsely 

 incised, usually soft-pubescent beneath, seldom or never viscid: peduncles 

 slender, pendulous, 1 2-pedicellate above the middle, the bracts small, 

 persistent: fl. % in- long; calyx of a rich red-purple, pubescent exteriorly, 

 the tubular-f unnelform tube about half as long as the ligulate reflexed 

 segments: petals large, thickish, truncate, involute, cream-color or 

 whitish: filaments subulate, not exserted, only the large linear-oblong 

 mucronate white anthers borne beyond the petals: ovary densely 

 echinate: fruit very prickly. Marin Co. April, May. 



J H- Fl. 4-merous; calyx-lobes erect. 



9. R. speciosum, Pursh. Shrub 610 ft. high, with long leafy red- 

 bristly branches: subaxillary spines 3, united at base: leaves subcoriaceous, 



