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side at base and with 5 equal or scarcely unequal spreading lobes, S 

 lines long, yellow within and without, or somewhat crimson tinged 

 exteriorly, viscid-pubescent; filaments coalescent with the tube about 

 mid^way; berry 3 to 5 lines in diameter, disagreeable to the taste. 



Throughout California. Mar.-May. 



2. L. hispidula Dougl. var. Callfornica Greene. Califoknia 

 HoNETSTJCKLE. Climbing bushes or trees 6 to 20 ft. high, the woody 

 trunk sometimes 1 in. in diameter and the ultimate branches often 3 

 or 4 ft. long and drooping; leaves eiliate c^r not ciliate, glabrou=i 

 above or glaucescent, minutely pubescent and very glaucous beneath, 

 oblong, some ovate, orsome upper elliptic-oblong, truncate or subcor- 

 date at base, 2 to 3 in. long, 1 j to IJ in. wide, short-petioled and all 

 except the lowest with conspicuous rounded connate-perfoliate 

 stipule-like appendages; corolla pink, 6 to 7 lines long, glandular- 

 hispidulous without, the tube within and the lower portion of the 

 filaments vei-y hairy; anthers exserted, narrowly lineai-, 3 lines long: 

 berries red. — (L. Californica T. & G.) 



^Frequent in cailons and along streams of the Coast Eanges: Santa 

 Cruz; Berkeley; Napa 'Valle3-. Also Sierra Nevada. Apparently 

 not in the inner Coast Kanges. June. Young plants beneath the 

 shade (if pines or other trees show vegetative shoots with the following 

 characters: branchlets hirsute with spreading hairs and with a fine 

 often glandular indument; leaves all distinct and rarely with a 

 stipule-like appendage between the petioles on each side, green above, 

 paler beneath, hirsute with short hairs, oblong-ovate or elliptic, 

 mostly obtuse, truncate or subcordate at base, f to IJ in. long, short- 

 petioled. — Such plants found at Niles, iXill Valley and Howell 

 Mountain are very typical of the species rather than of the varietj'. 



,3. L. interrupta Benth. Chaparral Hoxbystjckle. Stem- 

 with a rigid woody trunk 1 ft. or so high, the branches climbing or 

 reclining on bushes; leaves orbicular to elliptic-oblong or -ovate, 

 green above, glaucous beneath, J to 1 in. long, on petioles J in. long, 

 mostly without interfoliar appendages; flowers yellow, in whorls in 

 an interrupted spike; spikes 2 to 5 in. long, peduncled, terminal and 

 solitary or with several additional from the axils of the uppermost 

 leaves, 1 to 3 pairs of which are connate-perfoliate; corolla 4 or 5 

 lines long, glabrous exteriorly, and nearly so within; filaments hairy 

 towards the base; anthers less than 2 lines long. — (L. hispidula var. 

 interrupta Gray.) 



Dry slopes and ridges of the middle and inner Coast Eanges, 

 climbing 2 to 4 ft. high on bushes of the chaparral: Siskiyou Co. ; 

 Vaca Mountains; Howell 3It., and southward to Santa Monica. 

 Firet collected by Hartweg in a mountain defile leading to the 

 Mission of San Antonio. Also found in the Sierra Nevada. June- 

 July. An ecological form of only subspecifie value. 



On the lower slopes of Howell Mountain an interesting plant of this 

 species was noticed by the author in Dec, 1897. The branches, which 

 had been borne down to the ground by the falling of other shrubs, 

 were found to have given rise to numerous vertically descending 



