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Distribution: Coast Ranges from Lake County southward to 
the southern boundary of the State. In southern California this 
is a larger, less rigid bush than R. crocea, with leaves that very 
closely resemble those of Laurocerasus ilicifolia. It is a com- 
mon shrub in the chaparral belt of the coastal slope. Upper 
Sonoran’ 
Specimens examined: Santa Barbara, Parry; Santa Ynez Moun- 
tains, Brandegee, May, 1888; Sulphur Mountain Spring, 4brams 
&& McGregor 39; Saugus, Elmer 3649; Sepulveda Canyon, Santa 
Monica Mountains, Abrams 3114; Pasadena, Brandegee, May, 
1888; San Gabriel Canyon, Abrams 1020; Claremont, Baker 
3653; Pasadena, Grinnell, Aug. 1, 1903; Oakgrove Canyon, 
Liebre Mountains, Abrams McGregor 333; Cleghorn Canyon, 
San Bernardino Mountains, Abrams ( McGregor 710; Temecula 
Canyon, Greene, June, 1889; Campo, Abrams 3587. 
3. Ruamnus prtosa (Trelease) Abrams, Bull. Torr. Bot. 
b 37: 153. oO. 
Rhamnus crocea pilosa Trelease; Curran, Proc. Calif. Acad. IL. 1: 
251. 1888. 
Type nye “Santa Maria Valley, in the mountains back of 
San Diego. 
Distribution: Mountains and foothills of San Diego County. 
Upper Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Mountains east of San Diego, Parry, 
1859; San Diego, Parry; 1850; vicinity of San Ysabel, Henshaw 
235; San Felipe, Susan G. Stokes, July 26, 1895. 
4. RHAmMNuUS CALIFORNICA Esch. Mem. Acad. Petersb. 10: 285. 
1823. 
Rhamnus oleifolia Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 123, pl. 44. 1833. 
Endotropis oleifera Raf. Sylva Tellur. 31. 1838. 
Rhamnus laurifolius Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1: 260. 
848 
1848. 
Perfonon laurifolium Raf. Sylva Tellur. 29. 1838. 
Frangula californica A. Gray, Gen. Ill. 2: 178. 1849. 
Rhamnus Purshiana californica Rehder, in Bailey, Cyclop. Am. 
Hort. 1510. 1902. 
Type locality: “In Novae Californae fruticetis.” 
Distribution: In the Coast Ranges, from Mendocino County 
