﻿PLANT2E PRATTENIAN^E CALIFORNIA. 85 



HIPPOCASTANACE^E. 



iESCULUS California, Nutt. in Torr. and Gr. Fl. Am. vol. i. p. 251. Banks of 

 Deer Creek, seven miles below Nevada. 



RHAMNACE.E. 



RHAMNUS oleifolius, Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. vol. i. p. 123 ; Torr. and Gr. Fl. 

 Am. vol. i. p. 260. 



CEANOTHUS cuneatus, Nutt. in Torr. and Gr. Fl. Am. vol. i. p. 267. Hills. 

 April and May. 



C. integerrimus, Hook, and Am. in Torr. and Gr. Fl. Am. vol. i. suppl. p. 686. 

 Hills of Deer Creek. May. 



C. soredianus, Hook, and Arn. in Torr. and Gr. Fl. Am. suppl. p. 686. Near the 

 creek. May. 



C. papillosus, Torr. and Gr. Fl. Am. vol. i. 268. Granitic Hills. April and May. 



C. prostratus, Benth. PI. Hartw. p. 302. " Fruticulus prostratus, glaber, resinosus, 

 foliis oppositis cuneatis, apice spinuloso 3-dentatis, coriaceis, penninervibus ; thyrsis 

 brevibus subumbellatiformibus." 



" A very ramose and rigid shrub ; prostrate, with branches and leaves opposite. 

 The young shoots subangular, and afterwards terete. Stipules narrow-lanceolate, 

 acute, fuscous, less than a line long. Leaves thick coriaceous 6 — 9'" long, and at- 

 tenuated into a short petiole, dividing at top into three triangular spinescent entire 

 teeth or lobes, the middle of which is commonly the largest. Flowers blue, and of 

 the size of those of C. cuneatus and G. rigidus, which it resembles very much, although 

 a much lower shrub." Hills along the creek. May. 



LEGUMINOS.E. 



LATHYRUS venosus, var. y. L. decaphyllus, Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. vol. i. p. 159. 

 L. multi/brus, Nutt. MSS. 



L. venosus, var. s. L. pubescens, Nutt., L. deccupliyllus, p. minor, Hook, and Arn. 

 Another variety which is exactly the same form as Nuttall's L. polyphyllus, Torr. and 

 Gr. Fl. Am. vol. i. p. 274, except that the calyces are villous. All these forms were 

 found on the banks of Deer Creek, in the month of August. 



PSORALEA orbicularis, Lindl. in Torr. and Gr. Fl. Am. vol i. p. 304. In the 

 specimens I have before me the spikes are not globose-ovate, as represented in the 

 figure of Bot. Reg., but very elongated, and some more than four inches long, with a 

 tuft of large yellow bracts, ciliate, and dotted with purple clavate glands. The upper 



