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E. modesta. — Examination of Mr. Parish's No. 1951, 

 shows some curious discrepancies between the specimen 

 and the description. The flowers do not nod in the bud, the 

 petals are often entire on the margins, the anthers and fila- 

 ments of about equal length. The stamens which in the 

 description are said to be definitely 8 "in two rows on op- 

 posite sides of the pistil" — whatevei that may mean — were 

 found to be ten in the first flower examined, three on the 

 base of two petals, and two on the alternate ones. 



E. tennifolia is the best defined of all the forms, but it 

 has not been enough collected to determine the constancy 

 of its characters. So far, only nearly scapose forms with 

 2-lobed calyptras and tuberculate-scabrous seeds are known. 



III. Miscellaneous Studies. 



Rhamnus ckocea Nutt. E. ilicifoUus Kell. B. insnlaris 

 Greene. 



In the vicinity of San Francisco this plant grows as a 

 small, straggling shrub, with very small leaves. On the 

 slopes of Mt. Diablo and in Lake County it frequently at- 

 tains a much larger growth. Dr. Kellogg, who described 

 this robust form under the name of B. ilicifoUus, notes that 

 it is often as much as six inches in diameter, and a wood 

 section brought by the writer from the vicinity of Antioch, 

 which Avas cut from one of the branches of a small tree, 

 exceeds that measurement. Excepting increased size of 

 trunk and leaves, it dift'ers in no way from the ordinary 

 form. 



Var. PILOSA Trelease Mss., from the Santa Maria Valley, 

 in the mountains back of San Diego, is the most distinct of 

 the known forms. The leaves are revolute, and all parts of 

 the plant pilose. It is insufficiently known, only fruiting 

 branches having been collected. 



B. insidus Kell., must still be considered doubtful, for, 

 though both the specimen and the figure so marked, are 



