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forked hairs, sometimes purplish throughout: leaves light green, 

 mostly on the middle part of the stem, the lower on long, slen- 

 der petioles of 2dm., orbicular in outline, 5-6cm. in diameter, 

 usually 6 lobed, the divisions oblong or quadrate, these again 

 divided into 3-5 segments which are either rounded or acute and 

 apiculate; uppermost but scarcely smaller ones cut into more 

 slender, sometimes entire divisions, on petioles of their own 

 length, all pubescent on both sides with short, soft forked hairs, 

 veins prominent, sinus deep, acute; stipules lance-acuminate, 

 5mm. long: inflorescence branched, the slender branches naked 

 or with some bracts, i-2dm. long; racemes spicate, dense, often 

 5 or 6cm. long: calyx 5mm. high, cup-shaped when in flower, 

 pubescent with short appressed hairs, these more often simple 

 than forked, the ovate-lanceolate apiculate lobes 3mm. long: 

 petals deep rose-purple, oblong with a slightly cuneate base, 

 12mm. long, 4 or 5mm. wide, notched: akenes 3mm. long, 

 smooth and glabrous: greenish or straw-colored, slightly cur\-ed. 

 No. 6047, collected August 11, 1902, near Hullville, Lake 

 county, California, on the ridge between Eel river and Rice 

 creek, in a swampy place. It is related to 6". Oregana. 



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Shrub, height unknown: bark of the previous year brown, 

 puberulent, as is the pale growth of the season, and as well as 

 the leaves shining with a gummy exudation: leaves oblong, the 

 largest 9cm. long including the petiole of icm. or less, averaging 

 I cm. wide, sinuate-dentate, the apex rounded or acutish, the 

 base gradually narrowed into the petiole, deep green and glab- 

 rous above, veins prominent beneath, especially the midvein, 

 the spaces bet^'een the veins whitened with a ver>' short and 

 close tomentum wdricli is barely perceptible to the touch: inflor- 

 escence pubescent with short hairs which completely cover the 

 short, 3mm. long calyx, the lobes of which are linear: corollas 

 narrowly campanulate, 6mm. long, 4mm. wide across the sum- 

 mit, probably purplish, densely pubescent on the outside, the 



