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The type was collected by Mr, S. B. Parish in San Bernard- 

 ino Valley, San Bernardino county, California, altitude looo 

 feet, March 15, 1905, no. 5364J and sent to me under the name 

 Ribes divaricatum. It differs from that species in gross appear- 

 ance by its white villous leafles and larger flowers, and upon 

 closer examination in its naked instead of setose or aculeate 

 stems; in its pubescent instead of glabrous leaves; in the flower 

 clusters longer instead of shorter than the leaves; in the calyx 

 lobes only as long or very slightly exceeding the tube instead of 

 twice as long, and in the stamens only equalling instead of much 

 exserted from the calyx. 



Mr. Stewardson Brown, Curator of the herbarium of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, to whom a speci- 

 men was sent for comparison with the type of Nuttall's Ribes 

 villosum^ says "it differs from it in having larger flowers, larger 

 peduncles and less hairy calyx; general leaf form is about the 

 same, but more densely villous, as is also the stem. However, 

 it is nearer this species in general characters than what we have 

 called R. divaricatum Dougl." 



Trifolium inconspicuum (Fernald) 



Trifolium gracilentiim van inconspicuum Fernald, Zoe, 4: 

 380. 1894. 



I have before me a specimen which no doubt belongs to 

 this species, Mr. S. B. Parish's no. 5220, collected May 4, 1903, 

 near San Bernardino, California, the type locality. In all save 

 size of flower heads, this specimen is several times larger than 

 the original. It may be distinguished at once from typical T. 

 gracilentum of the Bay region by the peculiar grey-green color 

 of the foliage. The flowers are paler and broader, and the seeds 

 apparently lighter in color. These points, together with the 

 calyx as long or longer than the flower, seem to warrant a spe- 

 cific name for this plant. 



I can see no object in burdening literature with varietal 

 or form names. If a plant is considered distinct enough for a 



