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FUANGULACEAK DC. Fl. Franc. 4: 619. 1805. 

 {Rhamnaceae Dumort. Fl. Bel<»-. 102. 1827.J 



Ceanothus papiixosus T. & G. Fl. N. A. 1: 268. 1838. 



No. 8633, collected June 4, on the high ridge southeast of 

 Alma soda spring, Santa Clara county, elevation about 2000 feet, 

 growing' along the road among trees and other shrubs. It was 

 originally collected in this region by Douglas, and is found only 

 in the Coast range between Santa Cruz and San Francisco. The 

 flowers are bright blue in narrow cylindrical heads, the narrow 

 leaves rough and glandular above, pale beneath. 



Rhamnus californica Esch. 



No. 8547, collected May 18, on vStevens creek near Soda 

 Rock, Santa Clara county, elevation 700 feet, in deep shaded 

 woods. This is a form with the leaves large and thin, many rf 

 them four inches long, an inch and a half wide, whitened under- 

 neath with a fine felt-like tomentum. It is a good example of 

 protected and sheltered growth with restricted light. 



ELATINACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 88. 1836. 



ET.ATINR brachyspkrma Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 13: 361. 

 1878. 

 No. 8500, collected May i, in the pine woods back of Pa- 

 cific Grove, Monterey county, elevation perhaps 200 feet, grow- 

 ing in depressions in an old wood road in ground merely moist 

 at the time, but a shallow pool earlier in the season, the plants 

 g'iOwing among pine needles. The type was collected in Illi- 

 nois by E. Hall, but one specimen is mentioned from California, 

 no. 257 of Kellogg and Harford, 



VIOLACEAE DC. Fl. Franc. 4: 801. 1805. 

 Viola ocellata T. & G. Fl. N. A. 1: 142. 1838. 



No. 8433, collected April 13, near the summit of the Santa 

 Cruz mountains back of Saratoga, Santa Clara county, elevation 

 about 2500 feet, growing on a wooded slope facing the east, in 

 rich loose soil. It ranofes from Santa Cruz northward to at least 



