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RIM I r-TIVI NEW YORK 



BULLETIN BOTANICAL 



OF TME ■ QAKbBN 



Sootliern Galilornia flcafleiiiii ol SGieooes 



VOL I LOS ANGELES, CAL, JUNE I, 1902. NO. 6 



331 West First Strb 



Ne\v or Little Known Southern California Plants. 



BY LU ROY ABRAMS. 



Parnassia cirrata. Piper. Erythea, 3:128, 1899. The type 

 locality of this species is Mt. San Bernardino, where it was 

 first collected by Parish Bros, in 1879. In August, 1900, it was 

 again collected for the second tirfie by Dr. W. R. Shaw on the 

 Bear Valley and Redlands road. 



V ^ RIBES MALVACEUM VIRIDIFOLIUivI, R. glntiiwsum, 

 of local lists, not R. glutiuosuin, Benth. Shrub 1-2 m. high, 

 rather compact, the young branchlets short pubescent and more 

 or less densely glandular with stalked glands ; leaves, rather 

 thick, 2)-y cm. broad, slightly or not at all rugose, bright green 

 minutely scabrous and somew^hat glandular with sessile glands 

 above, pale and glandular-pubescent beneath ; petioles beset with 

 stalked glands, and more or less puberulent, dilated at base, the 

 margins ciliate ; inilorescence glandular-pubescent, racemes rather 

 long, peduncled, drooping, many-flowered ; bracts ovate i cm. 

 long, ciliate toothed above ; pedicels 3-4 mm. long ; calyx 2 brac- 

 teolate at base, rose color below, becoming nearly white above, 

 its tube cylindric, pubescent within, 4 mm. broad, 12 mm. long, 

 its lobes broadly ovate, rounded at apex, 4-5 mm. long; petals 

 rounded, 2 mm. broad, obscurely cordate at base, its claw very 

 short ; anthers nearly sessile, 2 mm. long ; style 6-7 mm. long, 

 pubescent ; berries becoming reflexed at maturity on short ped- 

 icels, pubescent and rather sparsely beset with coarse gland- 

 tipped hairs, apparently purple, i cm. long. 



Wilson's Peak and Pasadena Trail, Los Angeles Co., No. 

 1525. April 15, 1901. 



This differs from the type in having larger and greener fo- 

 liage, more glandular inflorescence and larger floral organs, and 

 like the tvpe, it can easily be distinguished from R. hhtfinosum, 

 Benth, bv its pubescent stvle and reflexed fruit. R. giiifinosum 

 has a glabrous style and the berries are on rather long, slender 



^spreading pedicels. 



; ^'HEUCHERA ELEGANS. Scape 25-35 cm. high, from 

 stout creeping root-stocks,- villous-hirsute ; leaves thickish, round- 



