Decembet 31, 1905 205 



SAXI FRAG ACE AE 



LiTHOPHRAGMA HETEROPHVLLA (H. & A.) T. & G. Fl. N. A. 



1: 584. 1840. 



Telli?na heterophylla H. & A. Bot. Beech. 346. 1840. 



No. 8149, collected April 11, above Pollasky, Fresno 

 county, near the old bridge on the banks of the San Joaquin 

 river, growing about rocks. The ovary is slightly adherent to 

 the calyJc, and the pedicels are variable in length, some of them 



4 or 5 mm. long, and some even longer. 



GROSSULARIACEAE 



RiBES brachyanthum (Gray) Card, Bush Fruits, 460. 1898. 



Ribes leptanthum var. brachyanthum Gray, Bot. Cal. 1: 

 205. 1876. 



No. 8264, collected May 16, in Silver canyon in the White 

 mountains opposite Laws, Inyo county, at an elevation of about 

 5500 feet. It is found here as low as 450O feet, but was past 

 flowering with well formed fruit at the lower elevations, while 

 at the place where the specimens were collected it was in full 

 flower, some of the bushes covered with ihe bright yellow blos- 

 soms. The type of this excellent species was collected near 

 Carson City, Nevada. It has never been well described, so the 

 following description, drawn up in the field, should be useful: 



Shrub a meter or more in height, with numerous stout 

 often downcurved branches, the old bark ashen, that of growing 

 shoots straw-colored or sometimes with a tinge of brown, puber- 

 ulent: leaf blades small, nearly orbicular in outline, the largest 

 about I cm. across, frequently broader than long, more or less 

 3 to 5-lobed, the lobes cuneate, broad and rounded and usually 

 again 2 or 3-lobed, either truncate or cordate at base; petioles 



5 mm. or less in length, these as well as the blades shortly pu- 

 bescent and glandular: infrastipular spines commonly 3, i cm, 

 long, needle-like, pale: flowers single or in twos on short pedi- 

 cels of I to 2 mm., subtended by broadly ovate or roundish pu- 



