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Nc. 6817, collected in sandy pine woods about Pacific Grove, 

 Monterey county, California, June 3, 1903. This species is per- 

 haps more related to the southern R. gratissima Greene, than 

 it is to R. Californica. 



Here is also referred a form collected in damp grassy places 

 in the woods back of Pacific Grove, which has an irregularly 

 crenate-serrate, more uniformly rounded leaf with prominent 

 pale veins, the calyx lobes with larger foliaceous tips, which are 

 somewhat serrate. It is lower in stature and more branched. 

 Although quite a marked form, it is for the present included 

 under R. pinetoruni. 



[/ liatliyriis eclrrliosiis 



Perennial from slender running rootstocks: stems ascend- 

 ing^? 3-4dm. high, branched, glabrous and somewhat glaucous, 

 striate, sharply angled above, leafy throughout: petioles i-2cm. 

 long; leaflets 10-14, elliptical, 1.5-2. 5cm. long, 5-1 2mm. wide, 

 the apex rounded, aristate, bright green above, pale beneath, 

 prominently veined, glabrous; stipules large and foliaceous, en- 

 tire or obscurely sinuate-toothed, the larger lower ones broadly 

 ovate, 2 cm. long and nearly as wide, cordate clasping at base; 

 the upper somewhat smaller, more pointed: tendrils none, repre- 

 sented by a short filiform prolongation of the leaf rachis: pedun- 

 cles shorter than the leaves, erect, few flowered: flowers want- 

 ing, but probable bluish-purple: calyx 8mm. long, the two short 

 upper teeth deltoid, with a rounded sinus between; the three 

 lower ones longer and narrower, the longer middle one subulate, 

 entire, obscurely ciliate: pods 3cm. long, few (2-6) seeded: seeds 

 dark brown, smooth. 



No. 5944, collected on grassy southerly slopes of Mt. San- 

 hedrin. Lake county, California, July 22, 1902. Its nearest rel- 

 ative is the recently described L. Brownii Eastwood, from Mt. 

 Shasta, but that has fewer and narrower leaflets, different stip- 

 ules and spreading or declined peduncles. About ten days pre-- 

 vious to the collection of our type number, a blue-purple Lathy- 



