Rhamnus crocea Nutt.

^Rhamnus crocea Nutt;.; T., & G. FL N. A. Is 261. 1838.
No. 7818, collected May 1, neat Keene Station in the Te-
b^chapi mountains, Kern county. Nuttall collected the type
from “bushy hills and thickets about Monterey,” and says the
“branches spinescent at the extremity,” and “leaves about half
I an inch long, lucid, when dry of a bright yellowish-brown be-
fjneath.” The leaves in our specimens are larger, although of
I variable size, green beneath. It cannot be referred to i?. ilici-\
Yfolia Kellogg, which also has leaves with the under side yellow,I
¡but ovate and acute, and apparently occurs in L^lke county only.,
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
03756804
PLANTS OF CALIFORNIA
Kern County
7818 RHAMNUS CROCEA Nutt.
Keene Station
A. A Heller, Collector	May i, 1905
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