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BOTANY. 
high, not stoloniferous ; leaves 1 long, rather lighter colored beneath ; 
cymes 1 J-2' in diameter ; petals white ; stigma small, capitate. Somewhat 
variable in pubescence and more so in the size of the leaves. Without the 
calyx-teeth, enlarged stigma, and woolly pubescence of C. sericea, and nearer 
to stolonifera. Berries oily. Washington Territory to California. Eather 
frequent through Nevada and Utah ; 5-7,000 feet altitude ; May-Septem- 
ber. (473.) 
Gareya^ elliptica, Lindl. 5-8° high, young branches pubescent; 
leaves thick, broad-elliptic, 1-2' long, h-V wide, mucronate, strongly undulate 
on the margin, glabrous above, tomentose beneath ; aments nodding, exceed- 
ing the leaves ; bracts broad-ovate, 3" long and wide, silky-pubescent; flowers 
ternate ; pedicels of the male flowers exceeding or equaling the bracts, the 
middle one often longer, the calyx-lobes oblong, 1^" long, pilose especially 
at the coherent summits ; ovary very hoary-hispid, the styles long-linear, 
glabrous, divergent, longer than the bracts.— Oregon ; California; New 
Mexico. Reported by Fremont in Southern Nevada. 
CAPRIFOLIACE^. 
LiNNiEA BOREALis, Gronov. From the Arctic Ocean to Pennsylvania, 
Michigan, the Saskatchewan and Washington Territory ; Rocky Mountains 
of Colorado, (Hall & Harbour.) Found in the Uinta Mountains, Utah ; 8,000 
feet altitude ; July. (474.) 
Symphoricarpus montanus, HBK. Nov. Gen. Spec, 3. 425, t. 296. 
LeaVes orbicular, ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; flowers axillary, soHtary ; bracts 
much shorter than the ovary ; teeth of the cup-shaped calyx obtuse, glabrous 
or ciliate ; corolla funnelform, nearly glabrous within ; stamens and style 
included; fruit globular or oblong, white.— A stragghng shrub, 2-3° high; 
leaves very variable, soft-pubescent and cihate, or wholly glabrous and often 
1 GAERYA, DouGL. Flowers dioecious, solitary or in threes between the decussately connate 
bracts of the aments. Sterile flowers :-Calyx 4-parted ; segments linear, spioadino-, valvate, sometimes 
coherent above. Petals none. Stamens 4, opposite to or alternate with the sepals ; lilaments free • an- 
thers attached by the base, linear, dehiscence introrse or lateral. Disk and rudimentary ovary none 
lertUo tl..u.i.s:-Culyx-tube ovoid; lobes 2, opposite, very short or obsolete. Disk and' rudimentary 
stamens none. Ovary 1-celled ; styles 2, filiform and erect, or short and recurved, stigmatose on the inner 
side, persistent ; ovules 2, on long funiculi, pendent collaterally irom the top of the cell. Berry ovoid 
l-2-8eeded. Seeds oblong, compressed; testa membranous, transversely rugose; albumen fleshy abund' 
ant; embryo cylindric, minute; cotyledons oblong; radicle terete.-Shrubs ; branchlets 4-angled- leaves 
opposite, entire or denticulate, feather-veined, evergreen, on petioles connate at base; aments slender 
axillary, solitary, silky, the staminate nodding ; flowers small, not jointed. Bexth. *fc Hook. 
