122 LEAFLETS. 



8 inclieB from the base of petiole to apex of terminal leaflet, the 

 leaflet Hi to 4 inches long, often 3 in width, of oval or ovate 

 outline, coarsely but not deeply crenate-lobed but the lobes all 

 abruptly acutish, the texture thin even in autumnal maturity, of 

 a deep rich green above, paler beneath and with slight pubes- 

 cence along the veins : inflorescence a simple raceme in the axil 

 of every leaf, never panicled, the fruits seldom more than ',2 or 

 3 to each raceme, but pedicels slender and drooping : striae of 

 fruit indistinct, obscured by a strong very irregular wrinkling 

 of the whole epicarp. 



Little Chico Creek, Butte Co. Calif., Mrs. E. M. Austin, 1896, 

 both early summer and late autumnal specimens, reported to 

 sustain itself to the height of 20 feet on oak trees. 



T. VACCAEUM. Stems slender, upright, the branchlets not 

 striate, obviously knotted by small infrapetiolar protuberances, 

 densely puberulent : leaves of the smallest, the leaflets from f 

 to 1 inch long, rather deeply and angularly 5-lobed, dark 

 green and glabrous above, paler and pubescent beneath especial- 

 ly along the veins : inflorescence a simple ascending and rather 

 long raceme in the axil of each leaf : staminate flowers very 

 small, with short subquadrate anthers on still shorter filaments: 

 fruit unknown. 



Cow Creek Mountains, Shasta Co. Calif., Baker & Nutting, 

 1894. This shrub can be compared with no other species of the 

 genus. It is unequivocally of the diversilobum group, but, with 

 its long slender upright racemes of small flowers, and its sharp- 

 ly angled foliage, it looks more like a currant bush. 



T. divabicatum:. Branches only sparsely leafy, elongated 

 and curved, the shrub, perhaps, reclining or trailing but not root- 

 ing, the bark greenish-gray, minutely hirtellous : leaves elon- 

 gated and long-stalked, the whole 6 to 10 inches long ; leaflets 

 subcoriaceous, entire, deep-green and glabrous above, beneath 

 with villous midvein but otherwise nearly glabrous, the termi- 

 nal ovate, acuminate, 3 to 4 inches long, the pair remote from 

 it, smaller, very inequilateral : panicles small, sessile, neither 

 erect nor ascending but spreading divaricately : fruits very 

 small, depressed-globose ; epicarp polished, not wrinkled, only 

 faintly striate. 



