BUCKTHORN FAMILY 



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3103. Condalia globosa 



3104 

 3104. Condalia lycioides 



3105 



3105. Condalia Parryi 



Ser. 1:66. 1938. {Rhamnus occidentalis Howell, Pittonia 2:15. 1899.) Low shrub, bark of the young 

 twigs green. Leaves firm, coriaceous, glabrous, rather bright green above, yellow-green beneath; fruit 3-seeded. 

 Canyon slopes, Transition and Canadian Zones; Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon and northwestern 

 California. Type locality: Waldo, Josephine County, Oregon. 



Rhamnus californica subsp. crassifolia (Jepson) C. B. Wolf, op. cit. 68. {Rhamnus californica var. 

 crassifolia Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 615. 1925.) Leaves broadly elliptical, entire, densely white-tomentulose 

 on both surfaces. Inner North Coast Ranges, California. Type locality: western Colusa County. 



Rhamnus californica subsp. tomentella (Benth.) C. B. Wolf, op. cit. 70. {Rhamnus tomentella Benth. 

 PI. Hartw. 303. 1848.) Arborescent shrub, leaves oblong or narrowly elliptic, entire, glabrous or pubescent 

 above, densely white-tomentulose beneath, the margins slightly revolute. Foothills of the Sierra Nevada and the 

 Coast Ranges, California, south to northern Lower California. Type locality: "Montibus Sacramento." Collected 

 by Hartweg. 



Rhamnus californica subsp. cuspidata (Greene) C. B. Wolf, op. cit. 72. {Rhamnus cuspidata Greene, 

 Leaflets Bot. Obs. 1:64. 1904.) Resembling the subspecies tomentella, but the leaves sharply denticulate. 

 Foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada and Inyo County south to the desert slopes of the San Bernardino 

 Mountains, California. Type locality: Tehachapi, Kern County. 



4. Rhamnus alnifolia L'Her. Alder-leaved Coffeeberry. Fig. 3109. 



Rhamnus alnifolia L'Her. Sert. Angl. 5. 1788. 



Apetlorhamnus alnifolia Nieuwl. Amer. Midi. Nat. 4: 89. 1915. 



Shrub, 1-3 m. high, with gray bark, the twigs puberulent or glabrate, bud-scales present. 

 Leaves deciduous, oval to elliptic, 4-10 cm. long, usually abruptly acuminate, sometimes obtuse 

 or even rounded at apex, crenate-serrate, rather thin, puberulent or glabrous on both surfaces; 

 flowers appearing with the leaves, 1-3 in the axils ; unisexual, 5-merous or sometimes 4-merous ; 

 petals none ; berry black, 6-8 mm. in diameter, with 3 nutlets. 



Usually in swamps and bogs, mainly Canadian Zone; Saskatchewan to Quebec south to California, Indiana, 

 and Pennsylvania. In the Pacific States occurring east of the Cascade Mountains and Sierra Nevada, from 

 northeastern Washington to central California. Type locality: "America septentrional!." May-June. 



5. Rhamnus crocea Nutt. Red-berried Buckthorn or Redberry. Fig. 3110. 



Rhamnus crocea Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 261. 1838. 



Low much-branched shrub, seldom over 1-2 m. high, the branchlets rigid and often spines- 

 cent. Leaves evergreen, rigidly coriaceous, 10-15 mm. long, elliptic to broadly ovate or obovate, 

 usually glandular-serrulate, glabrous or slightly puberulent on the petiole and midrib; flowers 

 unisexual, 4-merous or sometimes 5-merous; petals none; berry red, sweet, obovoid, 5-8 mm. 

 long ; nutlets 2. 



Chaparral-covered hills and ravines, Upper Sonoran Zone; Coast Ranges from central California to northern 

 Lower California. Type locality: Monterey, California. April-May. 



Rhamnus crocea subsp. ilicifolia (Kell.) C. B. Wolf, Mon. Rancho Santa Ana Bot. Card. Bot. Ser. 1: 39. 

 1938. {Rhamnus ilicifolia Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 2: 37. 1863.) Shrub or small tree, the twigs glabrous or 

 nearly so, not spinescent. Leaves as in the typical species, but larger, 15-40 mm. long, broadly ovate-elliptic 

 to orbicular, green or brownish beneath. Siskiyou County south through the Coast Ranges and the foothills 

 of the Sierra Nevada to San Diego County, California. In northern and central California the leaves are com- 

 monly brownish beneath, but in the southern Sierra Nevada and south of Santa Barbara they are usually green. 

 Type locality: vicinity of Clear Lake, Lake County. 



Rhamnus crocea subsp. pilosa (Trelease) C. B. Wolf, op. cit. 38. {Rhamnus crocea var. pilosa Trelease 



