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Ceanothus integerrimus H. & A. California White 

 LitAC. Tall shrub with erect stems ; leaves alternate, 3-nerved, 

 elliptical, 1-2 in. long, slightly pubescent. Flowers white, in 

 panicles on peduncles almost half as long, which persist. Fruit 

 smooth, without crests. This is common in Kings River Canon. 

 There was also a form collected with lower, stouter stems ; pan- 

 icles much shorter and more condensed ; leaves broader. 



Ceanothus cordulatus Kellogg. Snow Bush. Low spread- 

 ing shrub, forming the chaparral in many places along the trails. 

 Branches becoming spines an inch or more long, grayish brown. 

 Leaves alternate ovate, 3-nerved, pubescent, entire or serrulate, 

 about X ill- long. Flowers white, in small clusters. Fruit 

 slightly lobed and crested. Bubbs Creek, East Lake. 



CRASSULACE>E. Stonecrop Family. 



Sedum stenopetaium Pursh. Stonecrop. Perennial, from 

 running rootstocks, low, 3-5 in. high. Leaves fleshy, narrow, 

 broadest at base, X i^^- long- Flowers yellow, in branching 

 cymes, almost sessile. This is a bright little plant full of star-like 

 blossoms, often growing in patches. Forks of Bubbs Creek. 



Sedum roseuni Scop. Stems erect from a fleshy root, erect, 

 simple, from a few inches to a foot high. Leaves ovate to oblong, 

 dentate, fleshy, rather thickly clothing the stem, ^-i in. long. 

 Flowers dark red in a head tern:inating the stem, small. Stamens 

 with small round anthers on slender filaments surpassing the 

 petals. This grows at or above timber line. Collected on Kear- 

 sarge Pass and Harrisons Pass. The anthers are purple or yellow. 



SAXIFRAQACE/E. Saxifrage Family. 



KHY TO THE GENERA. 



HERBS, LEAVES ALTERNATE, FRUIT CAPSULAR. 



Ovary 2-celled, seeds in the center, stamens 10, petals 5, calyx 



free from the ovary or united only at base. 



Saxifraga, Saxifrage. 



Ovary i-celled, with seeds on the sides. Stamens 10, petals cleft 



or lobed, conspicuous. . . . Tellima, Wood Star. 

 Stamens 5, petals pinnatifid with thread-like divisions, capsule 



depressed Mitella, Fringe Flower. 



Stamens 5, petals entire, small ; capsule 2-beaked, half inferior. 



Heuchera, Alum-root. 



SHRUBS ; LEAVES ALTERNATE, SIMPLE ; FRUIT A BERRY. 



Ribes, Currant, Gooseberry. 



