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California. — All the specimens are without flowers. The California 

 plant has the leaves nearly twice as large as in the specimens from 

 Puget Sound. 



3. Lonicera California, Torr. & Gray. 



Lonicera Calif or nica, Torr. & Gray, Fl. 2, p. 7. 



L. ciliosa, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey, p. 143 & 349, non Poir. 



L. interrupta, Benth. PI. Hartw., p. 313. 



Hab. Near San Francisco, California ; in fruit only. — The degree 

 of gibbosity of the tube of the corolla is not constant. X. interrupta, 

 Benth., seems to differ only in the glabrous flowers. 



4. Lonicera involucrata, Banks. 



Hab. San Francisco, and in the Sacramento Valley, northward to 

 Fraser's River ; common along streams in fertile soil. — A stout shrub, 

 growing from 6 to 8 feet high. It has rather a showy appearance 

 when in fruit; the black berries being surrounded by a large red 

 involucre. 



4. VIBURNUM, Linn. 

 1. Viburnum ellipticum, Book. 



Hab. Southern Oregon, along the borders of creeks. — Leaves 2 or 

 3 inches long, on short petioles, broadly ovate, subcordate, very ob- 

 tuse or truncate at the summit, coarsely dentate-serrate, hairy under- 

 neath, nearly smooth above, with 5 primary veins which arise from 

 the base. Fruit black, about one-third of an inch long, ovate-globose 

 (much compressed when dry), the pulp thin. This species, on the 

 western coast, takes the place of the' eastern V. dentahim, or rather, 

 perhaps, of V. pubescens, which it more resembles. 



