354 TRANS. ST. LOUIS ACAD. SCIENCE. 



Carniol. (1760); Nyman, Consp. Fl. Europ. 144. — Often cultivated, like 

 the last, and persistent in old gardens about Xew York city {Byitton), but 

 scarcely naturalized. 



■*~ ^ Species of the P;icific coast, with j-merous flowers and larger oblong winter buds. 



3. E. occiDENTALis, NuTT. — Tall shrub ; buds 4 to 6 mm. long ; leaves 

 ovate to lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the lowest rounded or subcordate, 

 the others acute at base, irregularly serrulate or biserrulate, glabrous; 

 petioles 4 to 8 mm. long; peduncles mostly elongated, i- to 3-flowered ; 

 flowers 10 to 12 mm. in expanse; sepals obtuse, glandular-ciliate ; petals 

 round-obovate, undulate and somewhat cucullate, mottled ; fruit not deeply 

 lobed. — Torrey in Pac. R.R. Rep. iv. (1856), 74; Watson, 162. — Oregon 

 and California. 



4. E. Parishii, n. sp. — Weak shrub 8 to 10 ft. high; ends of twigs 

 flattened; buds 6 to 10 mm. long; leaves glabrous, elliptical-ovate, finely 

 crenate -serrulate, obtuse or blunt-pointed, abruply contracted and cune- 

 ate at base ; peduncles 2 in. long, 3- to 7-flowered ; flowers about 6 mm. in 

 expanse; otherwise similar to the last. — San Jacinto Mountains, Califor- 

 nia (5. B. & W. F. Parish, No. 957). 



PACHYSTIMA, Raf. — Low shrubs with corky-areolate branches, 

 nearly sessile coiiaceous small leaves low-serrate toward the apex, and 

 very small brownish flowers solitary or in short-stalked axillary cymes. — 

 Am. Monthly Mag. 1818, fide Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 361. 



1. P. Canbyi, Gray. — Span or two high, with rooting branches; 

 leaves very obtuse, oblong or the lowest rarely obovate; peduncles i- to 

 3-flowered, bibracteate, the elongated slender pedicels again bibracteate 

 toward the base; fruit elongated ovoid, 4XS mm. — Proc. Amer. Acad, 

 viii. (1S73), 623; Watson, 163; Meehan, Native Fl. & P^erns, i. 173, pi. 

 44; Chapman, Suppl. 613. — Rocky places in the mountains of southern 

 West Virginia (yGtay) and western Virginia {^Canby^ Skriver^ Redfield). 



2. P. MYRSiNiTES, Raf. — x\ foot or two high, erect Or spreading ; leaves 

 elliptical to round-oval or occasionally oblanceolate-oblong; peduncles 

 very short, mostly 3-flowered, the short pedicels scarcely exceeding them, 

 bibracteate at or about the middle ; fruit as in the last. — I.e.; Watson, 

 163,460; Coulter, Rocky Mt. Bot. 46. Ilex^'f) myrsinites. Pursh, Fl. i. 

 (1S14), 119. — Mountains, British America to California, extending along 

 the Rocky Mountains into Mexico. 



CELASTRUS, L. — Twining shrub with terete branches, ample serrate 

 petioled leaves, and greenish flowers in compound racemes (in our spe- 

 cies), terminating the branches. — Gen. 270; Gray, Gen. ii. 185, pi. 170; 

 Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 364. 



I. C. SCANDENS, L. — Glabrous; leaves more or less two-ranked from 

 torsion of the stem, ovate to ovate-lanceolate or occasionally obovate, 



