1913] PARISH—CALIFORNIA PAROSELAS 309 
7. PAROSELA CALIFORNICA Vail, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 24:17. 
1897.—Dalea californica Wats., Proc. Am. Acad. 112132. 1876.— 
Shrub 1-2 m. high, hoary with a fine upwardly appressed pubes- 
cence, and sparsely beset with prickle-shaped glands: leaves 2-3 
cm. long; leaflets 3-7, the terminal often longer than the others, 
rarely a few simple, the edges thickened, hoary-pubescent, con- 
cealing the small glands, decurrent on the rachis or confluent; 
calyx 5 mm. long, nerved, minutely glandular-dotted, thinly 
pubescent, in fruit glabrate; teeth shorter than the tube, the 
upper pair ovate-acute; corolla bright purple; petals 8-8.5 mm. 
long; pod 8 mm. long; seed castaneous, ovate.—Fig. 4. 
Extreme forms, such as Jones’s Palm Spring specimen (Hb. U. Cal. 12852), 
having leaves 3-foliolulate to simple, connect this species too closely with 
Dalea Fremontii Wats., and it is not impossible that it must be reduced to a 
variety thereof. 
YPE.—‘‘ Known as yet’ only from scanty specimens recently collected by 
Dr. Pind in the San Bernardino Mountains, California.” According to 
statements made to the writer by Dr. PARRy, the type was collected east of 
Banning, on the borders of the Colorado Desert. 
DIsTRIBUTION.—Western borders of the Colorado Desert, at 150-600 m 
altitude, and in the eastern part of the San Jacinto Valley, in the cismontane 
area. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED.—Near Banning, 1882, PARISH 644, and May 1892, 
Davipson; Palm Springs, April 1896, PARISH 4111, May 10, 1903, JONES, 
1904, R. J. Smit 308, May 21, rorz, O. F. Setiic, and May 1902, HALL 
1832; Cottonwood Mountains, May 1905, HALL 6025; between Palm Springs 
and Whitewater, July 25-August 14, E. E. SCHELLENGER, intermediate 
between the species and the following variety. 
PAROSELA CALIFORNICA (Wats.) Vail var. simplifolia, n. var.— 
Glaberrima, ramis eglandulosis: foliis simplicis, rariusve pinnato- 
3-foliolatis; calycis majoribus. 
Western part of the Colorado Desert, 1904, M. F. Girman 51 (in Herb. 
Univ. Cal.). 
Tt Flowers pedicellate, in simple racemes; leaves all simple 
8. PaRoseLta Scuorti (Torr.) Heller, Cat. N. Am. Pl. ed. 2. 
6. 1900.—Dalea Schottii Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 53. 1859.—Com- 
pact spinose shrub 1-3 m. high, with numerous slender, green and 
glabrate, glandless branches: leaves linear, 3-25 mm. long, puberu- 
lent, but soon glabrate, bearing near the thickened margins a 
