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QERANIACE/E. Geranium Family. 



Qeraniutn incisum Nutt. Perennial, with branching, leafy 

 stems; pubescence hairy and glandular. Flowers large, i inch 

 across, on long pedicels that are spreading or somewhat reflexed 

 in fruit. Petals purple, woolly on the inner surface. Stamens 

 with woolly filaments. Fruit with the beak glandular. Con- 

 verse Basin, General Grant Park, Millwood. 



Geranium Richardsonii Fisch. & Mey. This is like the 

 preceding, but less pubescent and glandular. The stems are 

 taller and weaker, the flowers smaller and always white, though 

 the petals may be veined with pink. This grows in wet places 

 and was collected at Bearskin Meadow. 



ACERACE/E. Maple Family. 



Acer glabrum Torr. Mountain Maple. Shrubby, a few 

 feet high, smooth throughout. Leaves palmately 3-lobed almost 

 to the base, the middle lobe largest, irregularly toothed, an inch 

 or more in diameter, turning red in the fall and often infested 

 with small, red galls. Fruit smooth, the wings not spreading. 

 Bubbs Creek ; rare. 



The Buckeye, jEesculus Calif arnica Nutt., is common below 

 Millwood. 



RHAMNACEi^. California Lilac Family. 



Rhamnus crocea ilicifolia Greene. Red-berried Rham- 

 NUS. Much branched shrub with smooth, oblong or round, 

 veiny, spiny-toothed leaves an inch or less long. The flowers are 

 minute and the sessile berries are bright scarlet, 2-seeded, as large 

 as small currants. Bubbs Creek. 



Rhamnus Californica Esch. Coffee-berry, Cascara Sa- 

 GRADA. Shrub with elliptical leaves on short petioles, acute at 

 each end, finely pubescent on both sides but densest on the veins 

 below and the petioles. Flowers small, greenish, in axillary, 

 few-flowered cymes. Fruit when ripe a black-purple berry con- 

 taining 2-3 seeds. Bubbs Creek. 



Ceanothus parvifolius Trelease. Blue blossoms. Low 

 shrub, with alternate leaves, 3-nerved, smooth, elliptical, 

 less than an inch long. Flowers blue, in simple racemes on long 

 peduncles and with the pedicels long and thread-like (almost 

 yi inch). Pods smooth, without crests. Converse Basin. 



