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berulent ciliate bracts i mm. high: calyx shortly pubescent but 

 not glandular, the tube 3 mm. long and as broad, greenish yel- 

 low; segments bright yellow, spreading and slightly downcurved, 

 3 mm. long, less than 2 mm. wide, obtuse: petals yellow, oblong 

 or somewhat spatulate, a little over 2 mm. long, less than i mm. 

 wide, the apex rounded or somewhat truncate; all of the petals 

 with edges touching, forming a raised ring or collar above the 

 spreading calyx lobes, the orifice a little narrower than the base: 

 stamens equaling but not exceeding the petals, filaments stout^ 

 I mm. long and as wide at base, about half as wide above, an- 

 thers I mm. long and as wide, pale: ovary with numerous stalked 

 glands, also shortly pubescent. 



No. 8226, collected May 10, in the Sierra foothills about 

 three miles south of Bishop, Inyo county, growing about granite 

 boulders, past flowering with well formed friiit, the berries about 

 7 mm. in diameter, covered with pale stalked glands. Noticed 

 at several places in the Sierra foothills, and no doubt common. 



RiBES CEREUM Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc, 7: 512. 1830. 



No. 8265, collected May 16, in Silver canyon in the White 

 mountains opposite Laws, Inyo county, growing on the floor of 

 the canyon in gravel, and no doubt brought down from higher 

 altitudes, since only one bush was found. Our Californian form 

 is not typical. 



ROSACEAE 



Peraphyllum ramosissimum Nutt. T. & G. Fl N. A. 1: 474, 

 1840. 

 No, 8356, collected May 31, on the banks of Birch creek in 

 the Sierra foothills west of Bishop, Inyo county, growing in 

 granite sand. A shrub about five feet high reminding one of a 

 wild plum when in bloom. The type was collected on "dry 

 hill-sides near the Blue Mountains of the Oregon." 



