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pulp enclosing 4 — 5 rliomboidal nutlets, rouglily carinate on 

 the back, one or more broader containing 2 — 3 fertile cells. 

 Forming dense thickets on the middle foot-hills of the 

 Sierra Nevada, from the Oregon line to Central California; 

 flowering in March, fruit in July, clearly distinguished by 

 the above characters from A. glauca, Lindl., with which it 

 has been confounded. The remarkable viscidity of the 

 pedicels, which draws out into long threads on handling, 

 also serves as a trap to insects, perhaps thereby serving 

 some use in the vegetable economy. At the time of flower- 

 ing it is one of the prettiest species, in the neat contrast of 

 flower and foliage, being also attractive to swarms of buz- 

 zing insects attracted by the copious stores of honey. Though 

 possibly shy of cultivation, its gregarious habit suggests 

 adaptation to park ornamentation, if grown in clumps, as in 

 its natural location. 



9. A. Stanfordiana. 



Low branching, 3 — 5 feet high, with slender dark-reddish 

 stems smooth throughout; leaves bright green on both 

 sides, narrowly ovate to oblanceolate, tapering below to a 

 short narrowly- winged petiole, entire and mostly mucro- 

 nate; inflorescence paniculate, prolonged and recurved; 

 rachis smooth, dark red, bracts small, rigid, acuminate; 

 flowers with deep red calyx and thin membranous corolla, 

 light pink and broadly urceolate; style slender, becoming 

 exsert, ovary smooth; fruit in pendent racemes, reddish yel- 

 low at maturity, uneven orbicular, flattened and umbilicate 

 at base, nutlets broader than deep, lightly connected, cari- 

 nate, usually two or more coalescent, more rarely all united 

 into. an irregular stone. 



Covering extensive mountain slopes in the vicinity of 

 Calistoga; flowering in March, fruit in July. Dedicated to 

 the memory of Leland Stanford, Jr. 



