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seeds are trivial and inconstant. The leaves are deciduons 

 at high altitudes; even our form at the level of the sea loses 

 most of its leaves in midwinter, as I have often had occasion 

 to remark in looking for the cocoons of Telea ceanothi. 



R. Californica varies greatly in size and habit. It is 

 usually a bush from 4-12 feet high. Immediately along 

 the coast, in unprotected situations, it is apt, like so many 

 of our coast plants, to become prostrate, forming circular 

 patches 6-12 feet in diameter, the stout branches often 

 more or less covered by the soil. In Marin County it often 

 makes a small compact tree, 15-20 feet in height and 25-30 

 inches in circumference. 



All our forms, running together, seem also to run into 

 R. Pnrshiana, but the latter is not sufficiently well known to 

 me, especially in mature fruiting specimens, to allow the 

 formation of a definite opinion on the subject. 



Furshia glandulosa Curran. — Fuller material from various 

 localities in California and Nevada has convinced me that 

 Dr. Gray was right in looking upon this as a mere form of 

 P. tridentata DO. 



Hauya arborea (Kell.) CEaothera arborea Kell. Hauya 

 Californica Watson. 



The anthers are not aristate and the filaments are deltoid, 

 those opposite the petals much shorter than the others; the 

 style is tortuous near the summit; the wing of the seed tri- 

 angular-acuminate, longer than the body; and the lower half 

 of the calyx-tube hairy within. The generic character 

 must therefore be modified in some respects. 



This plant bears a considerable resemblance to our famil- 

 iar Zauschueria. The habit is very similar, as well as the 

 shape of the calyx-tube, and attachment of the petals. The 

 anthers in Dr. Kellogg' s colored drawing are represented 

 yellow, but in more recent specimens they are found to be 

 rose-colored like the petals. 



