RHUS BENDIREI Lesq.
RHUS BENDIREI Lesq., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XI,
p. 15, Pl. IX, fig. 2, 1888.
The type material consisted of the example figured
and another specimen with its counterpart. The figured specimen, it will
be noted, is oblanceolate in shape, about 10.5 cm. in length, 3.5 cm. in
width at the broadest point, and is narrowly wedge-shaped below and
acuminate above. Lesquereux regarded this as the terminal leaflet and
decided that the other specimen represented a lateral leaflet of the
same species. Of this latter he says: "To this I refer a small,
oblong-lanceolate leaflet, rounded in narrowing rapidly to the point of
attachment, very short-petioled, and areolation identical." This is much
smaller, being only 6 cm. in length and 2.5 cm. in greatest width, and
while it looks at first quite different, may belong to it. The
collection made by Dr. John C. Merriam in 1900 contains two specimens
like the smaller leaflet.
Locality.Van Horn's ranch, South Fork of
John Day River, about 12 miles west of Mount Vernon, Grant County,
Oregon. Collected by Maj. Charles E. Bendire (U. S. Nat. Mus., No.
2582).
RHUS ? sp. Lesq.
Pl. XIV, fig. 6.
The original collection by Bendire contains a
fragment of the base of a leaf or leaflet that was referred by
Lesquereux to Rhus, but was not included in his published list of
species. It is impossible to make out the whole outline, but it seems to
have been obovate with a broadly wedge-shaped, unequal-sided base. The
margin appears to have been provided with small, sharp teeth. The
nervation consists of a comparatively thick midrib and quite a number
of thin secondaries those on the broader side of the blade being at a
right angle and those on the narrower side at an angle of about 40°
They are apparently camptodrome.
It is clearly unsafe to attempt comparisons between
this specimen and other known species.
Locality.Van Horn's ranch, about 12
miles west of Mount Vernon, Grant County, Oregon. Collected by Maj.
Charles E. Bendire (U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 8550).