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woolly. Flowers white, ^ in. in diameter, in close panicles or 

 even in simple racemes; fruit densely hairy. On rocky hills at 

 the forks of Bubbs Creek. 



Cercocarpus parvifolius Nutt. Leaves oblanceolate to obo- 

 vate, wedge-shaped, at base tapering to a short petiole, feather- 

 veined, crenate-dentate from about the middle, green and smooth 

 on the upper surface, pale gray-green on the lower ; calyx tube 

 long and slender, the border thickly set with stamens ; tail of the 

 akene an inch or more long. Converse Basin, Millwood, and 

 other places along the trails. 



Rubus parviflorus Nutt. Leaves broad, orbicular, 3-5 lobed, 

 3-6 in. broad, doubly crenate-dentate and mucronate, clothed 

 with fine, silky hairs, glandular on the petioles. Flowers cymose, 

 few in a cluster, lyi in. in diameter; sepals tipped with long 

 points ; petals white, obovate ; fruit inverted-saucer-shaped, red, 

 pleasant to the taste. Bubbs Creek. 



Rubus leucodermis Dougl. Black Raspberry. Stems 

 very prickly, covered with a glaucous bloom. Leaves compound, 

 with 3-5 leaflets, the top one the largest, green on the upper sur- 

 face, white on the lower, doubly dentate. Flowers white ; fruit 

 glaucous-black, sweet. Converse Basin. 



Chamaebatia foliolosa Benth. Low shrub, with widely 

 spreading branches, forming mats under the pines, aromatic, 

 with resinous glands ; petals white, 5, obovate, yi in. long ; 

 leaves obovate-oblong in outline, pinnately much dissected, with 

 the ultimate segments minute and crowded. This is commonly 

 known as tar- weed, as it leaves a viscid gum on the clothes of 

 those who walk through patches of it. 



Rosa spithamea Watson. Wood-Rose. Low bush growing 

 under the pines, slender, with few straight prickles ; leaves with 

 5-7 leaflets on very short petioles ; stipules glandular-ciliate ; 

 leaflets obovate-orbicular, dentate, the teeth glandular-ciliate ; 

 flowers an inch in diameter ; caljrx lobes long-pointed and with 

 small, leaf-like tips, somewhat glandular-ciliate near the top ; 

 fruit globular, as large as peas. Millwood, Converse Basin, and 

 other places under the pines. 



Rosa gratissima Greene. Stems very prickly, erect, branch- 

 ing, 2-3 feet high. Leaves bright green, thin, glandular ; leaflets 

 obovate to elliptical, about an inch long, serrate-dentate, not 

 glandular along the edge nor on the stipules ; flowers clustered 

 at the ends of short branchlets, more than an inch in diameter ; 

 sepals cottony- tomentose, long-pointed, with short, foliaceous 



