462 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [DECEMBER 
white hairs, as long as the ovary; ovary green, clothed sparingly 
at base and densely at apex with white upwardly appressed hairs. 
Fruit slightly pubescent, purplish-gray, densely clustered, very 
bitter. 
Grows in the Coast Mountains of California and its range seems to be 
from Trinity to Monterey counties. The type locality is on Mount Tamalpais. 
It is quite abundant on what is known as the Bill Williams Trail from 
Eldredge Grade to Rock Spring, and has also been found along the railroad 
track, 
This species has been included under Garrya Fremontii Torr., which is a 
species of the Sierra Nevada and the mountains of northern California and 
Oregon. The southern limit of G. Fremontii seems to be the Yosemite, where 
it is abundant along the road from Inspiration Point and also near Vernal 
and Nevada Falls. 
Garrya rigida is different from G. Fremontii in habit, pubescence, inflo- 
rescence, and the fruits. Those of G. ~igéda are purplish, tinged with gray; 
those of G. Fremontii are black when dry. 
It is much nearer G. pallida Eastwood, but differs in the bright instead 
of glaucous green foliage. Flowering specimens of G. fal/ida have not been 
collected, so good comparisons cannot be made; but the appearance of the 
two as they grow is quite different, as well as their range and environment. 
Garrya Fremontu Torr.—Typically almost entirely glabrous, 
leaves rather small, not more than 4 long, and 2™ wide, with 
cuneate base and mucronate apex. Staminate aments slender, 
with a few scattered hairs, more dense on the margins and 
near the tip of the two teeth. The stamens seem to be yel- 
low and are exserted from the open sides of the sepals, which 
are united at the top. As the type has only staminate flowers it 
is impossible to compare the other parts with what seem the 
same species from other parts of the state. 
The nearest of all the specimens in the Herbarium of the California 
Academy of Sciences is one collected by C. A. Purpus on Eel River, Men- 
docino county. This has much larger leaves but the staminate catkins are 
the same. Specimens from the Yosemite with immature fruit have the large 
leaves of the Eel River plants and almost sessile berries with inconspicuous 
calyx divisions. These characteristics hold true also with specimens collected 
on Mount Bohemia, Oregon, in the Callipoia Range, June 14, 1902, by 
P.E. F. Peredes. 
GarRvA Fremonti laxa, var. nov.— Distinguished from the 
forms included under G. Fremontii by the longer petioles of 
