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high, variously branched: subaxillary spines 1-3, usually stout and de- 

 flexed, leaves roundish, more or less cordate, 3-5-lobed, the lobes crenately 

 incised ; peduncles slender, usually 3-flowered : bracts broad, scarious : 

 lobea of the calyx ligulate about twice the length of the campanulate tube : 

 stamens exserted ; anthers small, oval ; style about equalling the stamens 

 and calyx, 2-parted, hairy below; fruit small black. Brit. Columbia to 

 California. 



^+ ^^. ^ ^ Flowers large and showy. 



K. Lobbii Gray Am. Nat. x, 274. Stems 2-6 feet high, much branched, 

 subaxillary spines 3, usually unequal : leaves roundish, truncateor slightly 

 cordate at base, more or less pubescent and glandular : peduncle almost 

 fllifdrm, 1-3-flowered: bracts broad about equalling the short pedicels : 

 calyx campanulate, pubescent, the dark red ligulate lobes about equalling 

 the tube, twice as long as the white truncate cuneate petals, strongly re- 

 flexed; stamens long exserted, slightly unequal; anthers nearly orbicular: 

 style about equalling the longest stamens :- fruit 6-8 lines in diameter 

 densely glandular hispid. Washington to California, west of the Cascade 

 Range. 



R. Marshallil Greene Pitt, i, 31 (?). Stems 2-4 feet high ; subaxillary 

 spines 3; roundish, 3-5-lobed, crenately toothed, an inch or less in diam- 

 eter, smooth not glandular; peduncles short, usually 1-flowered: bracts 

 broadly lanceolate : calyx dark red, campanulate, 8-12 lines long, the 

 lanceolate acute lobes much longer than the tube : petals oblong, rounded 

 at, the summit, 2-3 lines long, yellow: stamens and style exserted but 

 shorter than the calyx-lobes ; anthers oblong, obtuse at both ends, fruit 

 large an inch long or more, covered with fleshy spines but not glandular. 

 In forests in the Siskiyou Mountains. 



-f- -^ Anthers sagittate, inucronate-tipped. 

 -M- Bracts presistent. 



R. Meuziesil Purah. Fl. 732. Stems 5-10 feet high, branches strongly 

 hispid or varying to glabrous : leaves deeply 3-cleft, the lobes coarsely in- 

 cised, usually soft-pubescent beneath : pedicels slender, 1-2-flowered; 

 bracts broadly ovate, actite; calyx 6-10 lines long, the lanceolate obtuse 

 lobes twice as long as the campanulate tube : petals broadly cuneate, 

 rounded at the summit ; stamens equalling the calyx, anthers lanceolate, 

 a line long, style longer than the stamens; ovary densely glandular hispid. 

 In the coafit ranges, Southern Oregon to California. 



■n- -H- Bracts deciduous. 



R. ainictnm Greene.l. c. 69. Stems 2-4 feet high, intricately branched : 

 subaxillary spines 1-3, slender: leaves orbicular to oblong, less than an 

 inch long, 3-5-lobed, the lobes crenately toothed: peduncle short, usually 

 one-flowered; bract Iroadly ovate, longer than the very short pedicel, 

 clasping the ovary when young : calyx 6-10 lines long, the lanceolate acute 

 lobes but little longer than the narrow tube : fruit densely spinose. On 

 dry rocky ridges, southwestern Oregon and adjacent California. 



Order XXXIII. CRASSULACE^ D. C. Fl. France, iv, 382. 



Succulent or fleshy herbs with simple leaves without stipules 

 apd usually cymose inflorescence. Sepals 4-5, raiely 3-20, 

 imbricate in the bud, more or less united at base, persistent. 

 Petals as many as sepals and alternate with them, not unguicur 

 late, imbr icate in the bud, inserted on the base of the calyx, 

 sometimes united at base. Stamens as many as petals and 



