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If these and many more varieties prove ultimately to run into 

 one, it is not our fault; as the literature now stands, we are 

 obliged in self-defence, to set it apart, when called upon for de- 

 terminations. Specimens collected by Mr. S. Brannan, Jr., on 

 Oak Creek hillsides, Kern county, 14 miles from Tejon Pass." 



Figure 11. Moral parts of /Mpinus lactcus, enlarged. 

 The above is Kellogg's description, and it gives me great 

 pleasure to reinstate this long unrecognized species, even at the 

 expense of one of my own names. The species was barely pub- 

 lished before it was suppressed by Watson in Proc. Am. Acad. 

 S: 542. November, 1873. He there puts it down as a synonym 

 of L. densiflorus, but evidently never saw the plant itself, for he 

 does not mention it in the list of specimens examined. During 

 the course of five years he came to another conclusion, for in the 

 Bibliographical Index, published in 1878, it is said to be the 

 same as /.. microcarpus, a less satisfactory disposition than the 

 first, for it is clearly more related to I., densiflorus than it is to 

 the narrow (lowered /.. microcarpus. 



