Jejfcrsunia. IJEUIJElilDACEiK. 71 



deiiyely flowered nakcil 8])ike ; tlio wliile lilaiiieutH ami Hinall ovary making up : 

 flower; nut-like fruit barely 3 linos long. — Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. .VI; Brew. & \\ 

 Calif, i. IC. lAuiiticc triiild/l'la. Smith in Kees, ("yd. xx. no. 1. — WomU, Brit. C.<iimii.,.i i.. 

 northern part of Califurnia, near the coa.st ; fl. sprinj^. 



4. VANC0UV:£RIA, Morr. & Deesue. {Cupt. Geor;/e Vancouver, 

 commander of the Discovery iu the voyage to our northwest coast in 1701-95, 

 of which Menzies was surgeon and botanist.) — Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 2, ii. 'J51 ; 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 52; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 44; Gray. 1. c. 375; Hrew. 

 & Wats. I.e. 15. — Three species of the Pacific Slojje. [Revised by H. L. 

 Robinson.] 



♦ Leaves thin, nienibranaceous, soon perishing after the m.iturinp of the fruit, tlieir edppu 

 flat or nearly so, not indurated. 



v.* hexandra, Mokr. & Decsnk, 1. e. About a foot liigh, from f^lender and lignps<-ent 

 creeping root-stocks, glabrous or sparsely pilo.se : leaves all or mostly radical, ."J-ternate and 

 with slender common and partial petioles: leaflets rounded and cord.ite or sul.conbt*. 

 mostly angulately .3-lobed or repand and margin oliscurcly undiilate-crenulate or entire : scape 

 naked, or sometimes oue-leaved at ba,se of the simple or liranchcd loose pauide ; pediceU 

 filiform, recurving: flowers white or cream-colored. — Garden, xxx. 263, fig. '. V. /ilnni- 

 petala, S. Calloni, iMalpighia, i. 266. Ei>imedlum hernndrum. Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i.30,t. 13, 

 dissections not very good. — In coniferous woods near the coast, Brit. Columbia (Vancouver 

 Island) to Northern and Central California, first coll. by Menzies ; fl. spring. 



* # Leaves much thicker, somewhat coriaceous, narrowly cartilaginous-margined, often 

 crenulate or crisped at the edges, persisting. 



v.* chrysantha, Greene. Stems rusty villous pubescent, firmer th.in in the preceding: 

 tliickish leaflets sub-3-lobcd, glabrous and reticulated above, whitened and pubescent beneatli. 

 margins only slightly crisped, revoluto iu places: inflorescence sub-racemose, .5-18-flowored. 

 covered with dense dark glandular pulie.scence : flowers a little larger than in the last, golden 

 yellow : sepals 3 or 4 lines long : ovules 7 or 8. — Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. 66. 1'. hfjr.tu.lra. 

 var. chri/snntha, Greene, Pittonia, ii. 100. V. aurea, Greene (uhi?) ace. to Kattan, Au.il. Key, 

 17. K hexandra, var. anrea, Rattan, 1. c. ; Wats.,./jf/e Howell, Cat. I'l. Oreg. 1. — Oregon, 

 at Waldo. Rotta,,, and Coast Mts., Curry Co., T. Howell. A weU marked species readily 

 distinguished from the preceding by its thicker foliage and larger more deeply colored 

 corolla, from the following by its very different flowers as well as pubescence. 



v.* parviflora, Greene. Rootstock much-branched : stems numerous in groups : foliage 

 much as in the preceding ; leaflets more or less 3-lobed or suborbicular, more di.stinctly 

 crenulate-crisped : inflorescence more paniculately branched with flowers commonly imuh 

 more numerous (2.5 to 35 or more), scarcely half as large : ovules but 2 or 3. — Pittonia. ii. 

 100. V. hexandra, Brew. & Wats. 1. c, in part. — Abundant upon hillsides, Central Cali- 

 fornia, Bifjelow, Anderson, Bolander, Greene, &c. 



5. JEFFERS6NIA, Barton. Twin-Leaf. {TJiomas Jefferson, author 

 of Notes on Virginia, originator of the first expedition across the Rocky :\Ioun- 

 taius to the Pacific.) — Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. iii. 342. and plate; Michx. Fl. 

 i. 236; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 85, t. 34. — Single Atlantic-American species, but 

 /. dubia, Plrifjlorhegma duhiiim, Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur. 34. t. 2, of N. E. Asia, 

 is almost certaiuly another. 



J.* binata, Barton, 1. c.^ Glauccscent and glabrous, tufted from short matted nK.t.«t.ick8. 

 producing below innumerable fibrous roots, sending up simple one-flowered naked wape. 

 (4 or in fruit 8 to 10 inches high), these at length overtopped by the l..ng nidical iM-tiolo... 

 which bear a pair of sessile semi-cordate (either siuuate-lohulate, repand or entire) vemy 



1 Name altered from ./. diphi/lla, ace. to Dr. Omy's statement in ms. that Bar' 

 have been retained, and in acconlance with the recently published Index Ketcennf. 



