H7 



Oregon. — Josephine Co., 1S76, L. W. Lee ; Waldo, 1884, 

 Thomas Howell. 



34. P. CORNUTA, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad., 1.61,(1855), 



fide Greene. 



r 



P. Californica, Brew. & Wats. Bot. Cal. i. 59, (1876), 

 (not Nutt). 



Glabrous, or nearly so, 6 -1 8' high, stout, often much 

 branched ; leaves alternate, almost or quite glabrous, ovate, 

 elliptical, lanceolate, or some of the smaller ones obovate, 

 obtuse and more or less mucronate, or, in some cases, slightly 



retuse, ^'-i^' 'o^'^g^ 'i'^—7^^ broad, nearly sessile; flowers 

 in racemes terminating the stems, greenish- white, A^^-"^^^ 

 long, pedicels about 2'^ long; bracts often persisting for some 

 time; in most cases all the sepals tomentose, wings oblong, 

 venose, hardly as long as the keel; keel much as in the pre- 

 ceding species but its beak acicular, erect; lateral petals 

 shorter than in the preceding species, not reaching the tip of 

 the beak; stamens eight in number; style much as in the 

 preceding species; mature capsule compressed, about 5'''' 

 long, broadly ovate or somewhat circular in outline, retuse or 

 emarginate; seeds denselv hairv. 



Calif oiniia. — Nuttall, Rev. Mr. Fitch; Santa Barbara 



Co., 1865, J, Torrey; Los Angeles Co., St. Anita Canon, 



1883, J- C. Nevin, No. 849; Siskiyou Co., 1881, C. G. Pringlc; 



1876, E. L. Greene, No. lOi i ; Scott Valley, Callahan's 



Ranch, 1876, E. L. Greene, No. lOJi; Plumas Co., 1875, 



Mrs. M. E. P. Ames; 1876, Mrs. Ames, Herb. \Vm, M. Canby; 



Butte Co., 1878, Mrs. J. Bidwell; San Diego Co., Jamuel 



Valley, 1875, Dr. Ed. Palmer, No. 19, (dist. as P. aicnllata, 



Benth); '* Upper Sacramento," 1838-1843, Herb. U. S. 



South Pac. Explor. Exped., No. 1595; '*Eremont's Exped. to 



Calif,/' 1845-1847; -Geol. Survey of Calif.," 1860-1862, 



near Mt. Shasta, W. H. Brewer, No. 1369; '* Gcol. Survey of 



Calif.," 1866, Rattan; - P. R. R. Surv. Calif and Oregon, 



foot of Mt. St Joseph's," Dr. J. S. Newberry. 



