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Low, aromatic shrubs, with leaves finely, pinnately dissected; 

 pistil oce, becoming a large akene; flowers white, half inch 

 across, in cymes. . Chamsebatia, Mountain Misery. 



Tall shrubs with simple leaves ; flowers solitary, small, greenish, 

 with calyx only ; pistil solitary, in fruit terminating in a long, 

 feathery style. Cercocarpus, Mountain Mahogany. 



Shrub with compound leaves ; petals rose-color, conspicuous ; 

 pistils many, in fruit forming bony seeds, which are enclosed 

 in a red, fleshy receptacle when ripe. Rosa, Wild Rose. 



HERBS. 



Stipules united to the base of the petioles ; calyx ^-lobed, 

 with bractlets alternating with the lobes. 



Pistils numerous on a dry receptacle ; style either bent in the 

 middle or feathery ; petals purplish or yellow, conspicuous. 

 Geum, Avens. 



Pistils very numerous on a red, fleshy receptacle ; petals white ; 

 leaves compound, with 3 leaflets. Fragaria, Strawberry. 



Pistils numerous on a dry receptacle ; leaves pinnately com- 

 pound ; calyx saucer-shaped ; petals generally yellow. 

 Potentilla, Cinque foil. 



Pistils numerous on a dry receptacle ; calyx bell-shaped ; petals 

 white or yellow, with claws ; leaves pinnately compound, with 

 the upper leaflets more or less running together. Horkelia. 



Pistils 5-10, on a dry receptacle ; stamens only 5 ; petals very 

 small, greenish-yellow; leaves compound, with three ^toothed 

 leaflets Sibbaldia. 



Cerasus emarginata Dougl. var. Leaves finely and sparsely 

 pubescent, oblanceolate to elliptical, 1-2 in. long, yz-% in. wide, 

 crenate, obtuse, narrowed at base, with two glands at the base of 

 the blade, margin slightly revolute, crenulate, each crenature 

 tipped with a small, glandular bristle. Corymbs few-flowered, 

 much shorter than the leaves. Cherry dark red, bitter and astrin- 

 gent, about y% in. in diameter. This is common in many places 

 along the trails and forms part of the brush or chaparral. 



Amelatichier alnifolia Nutt. var. Leaves oblong to orbicu- 

 lar, about an inch long, pale green, clothed with fine, silky hairs, 

 dentate from below the middle with spine-tipped teeth ; petioles 

 much shorter than the blade, white, woolly. Flowers white, in 

 racemes (in fruit the lower pedicels lengthen) ; fruit purplish or 

 black when ripe, as large as a green pea, surmounted by the per- 

 sistent triangular calyx lobes. Millwood ; Bubbs Creek, near its 

 junction with Kings River. 



Holodiscus dumosa Nutt. Low, straggling shrub ; leaves 

 small, wedge-shaped, toothed along the top, % in. long, silky- 



