g^ BOTANY. 



East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, rare ; much more frequent in the Wali- 

 satch; 7,000 feet altitude; June-August. (308.) 



RuBUS STRiGOSUS, Mx. From Pennsylvania to Nev^foundland, Hudson's 

 Bay, and the Great Slave Lake, thence south along the Rocky Mountains to 

 Colorado (R. IdcBus, 212 Parry) and New Mexico, (Fendler.) Rare and al- 

 pine in the East Humboldt and Clover Mountains, Nevada ; 10,000 feet alti- 

 tude; more frequent in the Wahsatch and Uintas, at an elevation of 

 5,500-7,500 feet. (309.) 



RuBUS LEUCODEEMis, Dougl. Glaucous, armed with very strong re- 

 curved prickles ; stems erect ; 3-foHolate or pedately 5-foholate ; leaflets 

 broadly ovate, incised and serrate, acute, canescently tomentose beneath, the 

 upper long-petiolulate, the tw^o lower smaller and nearly sessile ; stipules se- 

 taceous ; peduncles axillary and terminal, few-flowered ; petals nearly equal- 

 ing the sepals ; fruit large, brownish black with a white bloom. — Resembling 

 li. occidentalis. Oregon ; San Francisco Mountains, New Mexico, (Bigelow.) 

 Found onlyin the "Wahsatch Mountains, Cottonwood Canon; 6,000 feet alti- 

 tude ; in fruit, July. (310.) 



PcJESHiA^ TEiDENTATA, DC. Of dense growth, 2-4° high; stipules 

 minute ; leaves 3-12" long ; calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse ; petals obovate, ex- 

 ceeding the calyx, 3-5" long ; fruit i' long, tardily dehiscent, 2-valved. — 

 From Colorado, Northern Arizona (Ives) and California to Washington Ter- 

 ritory and the sources of the Missouri. On foot-hills in Nevada and Utah, in 

 many places very abundant ; 5-6,000 feet altitude; May-October. (311.) 



Ceecocaepus^ parvifolius, Nutt. A shrub, 2-10° high, branching 

 from the ground ; leaves J-li' long, cuneiform-obovate, silky-pubescent or 



' PUESHIA, DC. Calyx persistent, tubular-infundibuliform, imbrlcately 5-lobed. Petals 5, un- 

 guioulate. Stamens 10-25, in one series, with free filiform filaments and large anthers. Carpels 1-2, 

 free ; style short, curved, persistent, stigraatose at the top and one side ; ovule solitary, erect. Fruit 

 coriaceous, ovate-oblong, pubescent, sessile, exceeding the calyx. Seed with a membranous double testa, 

 the two coatings separated from each other by a layer of deep-purple intensely bitter granular matter ; 

 cotyledons flat, obovate ; radicle short, inferior. — A diffusely branched leafy shrub, tomentose and some- 

 what glandular-pubescent upon the leaves, calyx and fruit ; leaves small, alternate and faslcled, subcu- 

 neiform, 3-cleft, the lobes short-linear with revolute margins, canescent beneath; flowers yellow, subses- 

 Bile, solitary, axillary and terminal. 



'CEECOCAEPUS, I-IBK. Calyx-tube persistent, cylindrical, long and pedicelliform, terete ; lobes 

 of the hemispheric deciduous limb 5, small, valvate. Petals none. Stamens 15-25, in 2-3 series, seated 

 on the limb of the calyx, with short free incurved filaments, and anthers often pubescent. Ovary solitary, 

 with a single snbei-ect ovule; style filiform, Tillous. Aohenium linear-oblong, coriaceous, included in the 

 calyx, caudate with the persistent long plumose style ; seed linear, with membranous testa, elongated 

 cotyledons, and inferior radicle. — Shrubs or trees, with alternate simple leaves and axillary or terminal 

 flowers. Benth. & Hook, 



