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Gry involucrate (Richards.) Banks. ~—_»Black Twinberry. —»> An erect sane- 
t straggling shrub 1-2 m. tall, the mature bark clay-colored and shredding 
away, the new growth rectanguler in cross-section; leaf-blades 10-20 cm. long, 
elliptical or obovate, abruptly aes narrowed and subcuneate, rarely 
roundedy at the base, sparingly pubescent above, dull, softly pubescent and 
paler beneath, or both surfaces glabrous, the margin ciliate, petioles .5-1 om. 
long; flowers on axillary peduncles 2-5 om. long, the corolla yellow, 15-18 
mme long, tubular, glandular pubescent, the lobes rounded, 2-2.5 mm. long, the 
sac projecting about 2 mm. below the ovary; anthers slightly longer than the 
filaments, each pair of corollas subtended by an involucre of 2 pairs of : 
obcordate bright red bracts 1-2 om. long, reflexed in fruit; berries shining 
black, oblong, 8-10 mm. long, distinct, divergent; seeds lenticular, Sinise —o: : 
black, 2mm. long. (Distegia involucrata 
Along streams and in meadows throughout our region. 
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(3), Le cauriana Fernald. -» Blue Twinberry. —» Stiffish erect shrubs 60-80 cm. 
tall, the mature bark brown, flaking in papery flakes, the branchlets whitish, 
or crimson, puberulent; leaf-blades 5@6 ome long, 2-5-3 om. broad, mostly 
obovate, frequently oval, rounded at the apex, mostly narrowed below the 
middle, entire, the upper surface nearly glabrous, the lower surface paler, 
thinly hirsute, the margins ciliate, the petioles 2-3 mn. long; flowers 
borne in the lower exils of the new growth on peduncles 5-6 mm. long, sub= 
tended by paired bractlets which vary fran subulate and 5-6 mm. long to 
lanceolate or ovate and 1.5-2.5 om. long, ciliate, hirsute; corolla yellow 
ish, 10-12 m, long, tapering eradually, thinly hirsute; stamens scarcely 
exserteds; ovaries wholly united; berry bluish=-black subglobose, 7-8 mm, acrosse 
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(Xylostemon caeruieum Kydbe, Le (2?) altaica Pallas). 
Local in subalpine bogs or meadows .—— o. 
not ——YNear Oxford R. S., 5000 ft., Epling and Houck 9678; Spokane Meadow, 
Bpling and Kempf. 
