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2, Ce velutinus Dougle ~ticky Laurele A rigid shrub 1-2 m. tail, the 
cending, older bark dark brown, longitudinally striate, 
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numerous brancnes as 
branchlets greeny puberulent ; leaves leathery, =-6 cme long, ovate, obtuse, 
rounded at the base and lightly cordate, very finely and regularly serrulate, 
teethacute, tip ed vith a minute gland, the upper surface glossy,dark green, 
sticky, the lower pale, finely hairy, three veins very prominent; panicles 
5-6 cme long, borne towards the tips of first year branchlets and over-topping 
them, fragrant, practs broadly ovate, 1-2 mn. long, soon falling; calyx and 
corolla whites, about 4 ma, in diameter, the pedicels filiform, 5-8 ma, long, 
white, 10 mi in fruit; capsules 3-lobed, each lobe bearing a low ridge on 
the back, flatcened above, 4-5 ma, broad; secds shining, 2.0 mie Longe 
Srecuent throughout our region in dry burns, occasionally in open woods 
with Pinus contorta, usually at lower elevations. 
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