8APINDACEA. 39 



Leaves pinnately 3-f oliolate 8 



Flowers in drooping racemes: stamens 5, much ezserted: leaves 3-foliolate, serrulate.. . 4 



1. ^SCULUS, Linnaeus. 

 1. .ffi. CalifomiCTlS, NutU Leaves palmately 4-7 -f oliolate, (Buckeye.) 



2. AC£B, Toumefort. 



1. A. macrophylluin, Pursh. Yellowish flowers in dense racemes: fruit hairy. 



2. A. circinatum, Pursh. Corymbs 10-20 flowered: sepals red or purplish. 



3. A. glabrum, Torr. Sepals and petals greenish yellow: filaments naked. 



3. NEGUNDO, Mcench. 

 L N. CalifornicTun, T. & G. Calyx minute: petals none, dicecioua. (Box -Elder.) 



4. STAPHYI^A, Linnaeus. • 



2. S. Bolanderi, Gr, Leaflets broad, stipellate: fruit bladdery, Shasta. 



ANACAllDIACEiE. 



KHX7S, Linnsens. 



Slender deciduous shrubs: leaves 3-f oliolate: fruit compressed globose. 



Flowers in dense axillary panicles: fruit smooth, dry, whitish ^ 1 



Flowers in short scaly-bracted spikes: fruit hairy, gummy, scarlet. 2 



Stout, diffuse evergreen shrubs: leaves simple, coriaceous: fruit ovoid. 



Flowers rose-color: leaves ovate on short petioles 3 



Flowers yellowish: leaves lanceolate on slender petioles 4 



1. B.. diversiloba, T &Gr. Stems erect or climbing by rootlets (Poison Oak). 



2. R. aromatica, Ait. var. trilobata, Gr. Diffusely slender-branched. 



3. B.. integrifolia, B. & H Leaves entire or spinosely-toothed: fruit red, frosty. 



4. R. laurina, Nutt. Leaves glaucous, entire: panicles 2-4 inches long. 



LEGU3lIN0SiE. 



§ 1. Stamens distinct: shrubs (tsxcept No. 1). 



Leaves palmately 3 f oliolate: yellow flowers in terminal close racemes. 1 



Stiff, much branched, evergreen: flowers red-purple, solitary, axillary 2 



Leaves pinnate: flowers purple in dense axillary spikes: petal 1 



