256 tKAI'LETg. 



middle size for the group ; leaflets approximate, from almost 

 meeting to fairly overlapping, not greatly unequal, all broadly 

 obovate, obtuse, or the small lowest pair subtruncate, crenate 

 rather than serrate, the margins of the crenatures beset with a 

 few stipitate glands in place of secondary teeth, both faces 

 softly but shortly villous-pubescent ; rachis with here and 

 there a rigid spine but everywhere pubescent, many of the 

 soft hairs rather stiffer and gland-tipped ; stipules very narrow 

 below the middle, above that widened and ending in long 

 divergent lobes, the marginal series of gland-tipped hairs both 

 slender and short ; peduncles with very few and short glandu- 

 lar prickles ; fruit sub-globose. 



Pine Ridge, Fresno County, California, at 5500 feet, col- 

 lected by Hall & Chandler, June, 1900, their number 171 as 

 in U. S. Herb. Noteworthy for the obtuse rounded indenta- 

 tion of the leaflets, and their soft pubescence. 



Rosa prionota. Stems red-brown, glabrous except as be- 

 set with a few rather stout and hard spreading prickles : 

 leaves very small, of 7 to 9 somewhat distant leaflets, these 

 oval, obtuse, deeply and very acutely serrate, the primary 

 serratures almost acuminate, the secondary much reduced, 

 even obscure, both faces of a rather vivid green and glabrous, 

 only the midvein conspicuous, its branches almost obsolete, 

 but both faces under a lens notably reticulate ; rachis quite 

 strongly stipitate-glandular but without naked prickles ; body 

 of stipules broad, the lobes rather small, acuminate : pedun- 

 cles short and shortly though somewhat densely glandular- 

 hispid ; fruit globose. 



I^ake County, California, on foot-hills south of Mt. Sanhe- 

 drin, 14 July, 1902, A. A. Heller, his n. 5858 as in U. S. 

 Herb. , sheet 416864. Remarkable for the deep sharp serrature 

 of the quite extremely small leaflets. 



Rosa piscatoria. Stems slender, upright, the bark green, 

 very hispid with many short slender spreading or deflexed 

 prickles and a few long stiff spreading ones, these commonly 



