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densely covered with an appressed-pubescence ; fruit broadly ovoid or spherical, densely pubes- 

 cent or glabrate toward the base, often buff with a dark purplish tinge, 5-8 mm. m diameter. 



Chanarral ridees and canyons, Upper Sonoran Zone; Inner Coast Ranges from Tehama County to San 

 Benito &un?y and in ?he foothilU of the .Sierra Nevada, California. Type locality: CoulterviUe Road, near 

 Coulterville, Mariposa County. March-April. 



4. Garrya Fremontii Torr. Fremont's Silk-tassel. Fig. 3648. 



Garrya Fremontii Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. 4: 136. 1857. 

 Garrya rigida Eastw. Bot. Gaz. 36: 461. 1903. 

 Garrya Fremontii var. laxa Eastw. loc. cit. 



Shrub 1.5-5 m. high, the young twigs appressed silky-pubescent, soon glabrate and reddish 

 brown. Leaves oblong-ovate to suborbicular, usually tapering at each end, 2-4.5 cm. long, cori- 

 aceous, strongly reticulate-veined, bright green above, paler or yellowish and thinly appressed- 

 pubescent or glabrate beneath ; staminate aments solitary or clustered, unbranched, very lax ; 

 bracts acuminate, densely pilose to glabrate and ciliate ; fruiting aments cornpact, with almost 

 foliaceous bracts, 4-6 cm. long ; fruit globose, glabrous or nearly so, bluish black or butt tinged 

 with purple, 5-6 mm. in diameter. 



Chaparral slopes, often extending into woodland, Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition Zones; southern 

 Washington to Tulare and Monterey Counties, California. Also sparingly in the San Jacinto Mountains of 

 southern California. Type locality: ''On a small head water of Cow Creek," Shasta County. California. Feb.- 

 April. Bear Brush. 



5. Garrya flavescens var. pallida (Eastw.) Bacigalupi. Ashy Silk-tassel. 



Fig. 3649. 



Garrya pallida Eastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. III. Bot. 2: 287. 1902. 



Garrya flavescens var. pallida Bacigalupi ex Ewan, Bull. Torrey Club 64: 519. 1937. 



Shrub 1.5-2.5 m. high, young seasonal branchlets cinereous with a short silky appressed 

 pubescence, glabrate and brownish in age. Leaves oblong-elliptic to oval, 3-6 cm. long, stittiy 

 coriaceous, gray-green, sparsely appressed-pubescent above, densely so and silky beneath ; stami- 

 nate aments unbranched, 3-4 cm. long ; bracts 4-7 mm. long, broadly ovate, their tips often pro- 

 duced into foliar recurved projections; fruiting aments compact, their bracts densely silky; berry 

 broadly ovoid, 6-8 nun. broad, densely appressed silky-pubescent. 



Chaparral slopes. Arid Transition and Upper Sonoran Zones; southern Sjerra Nevada (Fresno County) 

 and Coast Ranges of Santa Barbara south to the Cuyamaca Mountains, San Diego County, California bpeci 

 mens from the Providence and Clark Mountains of the Moj aye Desert approach typical G. flavescens S- \Vat. of 

 Utah and Arizona, and specimens of the southern Santa Lucia Mountains approach G. Fremontii. Type locality. 

 King's River Canyon, South Fork of King's River, Fresno County. Feb.-April. 



6. Garrya buxifolia A. Gray. Dwarf Silk-tassel. Fig. 3650. 



Garrya buxifolia A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7 : 349. 1868. 



Garrya flavescens var. buxifolia Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 732. 1925. 



Low shrub 0.5-1.5 m. high, the young branchlets moderately appressed-pilose, glabrate and 

 reddish brown in age. Leaves oblong-elliptic to suborbicular, 1-4 cm. long, coriaceous, glabrous 

 and bright or olive-green and glossy above, silvery-gray beneath with a dense appressed pubes- 

 cence; petioles short, appressed-pubescent; staminate aments in clusters of 2-4, unbranched, 

 5-7 cm. long ; bracts connate, acuminate, 4-7 mm. long ; fruiting aments 3-9 cm. long, compact ; 

 bracts uniformly appressed-pilose; fruit 4-6 mm. in diameter, very short-pediceled, glabrate, 

 bluish black, the pair of sepals usually evident. 



Rocky slopes. Transition and Canadian Zones; most abundant in the Siskiyou Mountains but ranging from 

 Josephine and Curry Counties, Oregon, to northern Mendocino County, California. Type locality: Red Mountain, 

 Mendocino County, California. March. 



Series 2. Sympetalae. 



Petals usually more or less united below, forming a corolla-tube and a lobed limb. Stamens 

 inserted on the corolla-tube except in some of the Pyrolaceae and Monotropaceae. 



Family 112. PYROLACEAE. 



WiNTERGREEN FAMILY. 



Perennials with slender, creeping, branched, scaly rootstocks. Stems low, tpore 

 or less suffruticose. Leaves evergreen, alternate, often crowded into false verticils, 

 coriaceous, mostly serrate or crenate, exstipulate, petioled. Flowers racemose 

 corymbose or solitary, bracteate, perfect, regular. Sepals 4-5, more or less united 

 at the base. Corolla of 5 or rarely 4 distinct or slightly united petals. Stamens 10. 

 hypogynous ; filaments more or less dilated at the base ; anthers inverted in anthesis, 

 opening by round or oblong pores at the ends of small tubes. Ovary superior, usu- 

 ally with a disk, 5-celled, or rarely 4-celled, sometimes incompletely 10-celled, sub- 



