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bus; floribus sessilibus; calyce glabro campanulato cirea 4 mm. 
longo lobis brevibus ovatis acutis; corolla late campanulata circa 
5 mm. longa lobis latis erectis; staminibus styloque inclusis, fila- 
mentis glabris; bacca ignota. — CaLIForNIA: summit El Cajon 
Pass, San Bernardino Co., May 12, 1917, Mrs. Mary F. Spencer, 
no. 366 (TypE, Gray Herb.). 
The short campanulate calyx and corolla are characters which 
definitely ally this species to L. californicum. The latter plant, 
however, has small thick glabrous leaves and is of totally different 
habit, being a very spinescent much branched shrub. L. Spen- 
cerae, on the other hand, produces simple elongate flowering 
branches spinescent only at the tip and thickly clothed with long 
narrow leaves. 
Terracciano’s revision of Lycium in Malpighia iv. 472-540 (1891) 
is scarcely to be taken seriously. His conception of “ species ” and 
“ variety ”’ is so extreme that his work is of little value except as 
indicating the grouping of the described forms. The species in the 
genus are numerous and certainly closely related but apparently 
they do not often intergrade and may be distinguished rather easily 
by Dr. Gray’s treatment in the Flora of California and in the Proc. 
Am. Acad. vi. 45. Therefore, in following Dr. Gray’s interpretation 
of specific limitations here I have been compelled to consider the 
above plant as a species amply distinct from its nearest relative, 
L. californicum, and in assigning to it the name L. Spencerae I 
have accorded well-merited recognition to an enthusiastic and 
discriminating collector. 
bus paullum brevioribus; pappo paullo 
Caurrornia: Palo Alto, July 19, 1897, Congdon, no. 6 (TYPE, 
Gray Herb.); also July 7, 1901. 
