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bracts: leaves 1 — 2 ft. long; leaflets 11 — 17, ovate, acuminate, somewhat 

 palmately nerved: racemes elongated: berries larger than in other 

 species. — In deep woods near the coast from Monterey northward. 



2. VANCOUVERIA, Murren & Decaisne. Perennial acaulescent 

 herbs, with leaves 2 — 3-temately compound, and scapes bearing a raceme 

 or panicle of small white or yellow nodding flowers. Sepals 6, obovate, 

 reflexed, subtended by G — 9 oblong membranaceous bractlets. Petals 6, 

 deflexed, but with cucullate-incurved tips. Stamens 6, erect, closely 

 appressed to the instil. Carpel 1; the stigma cup-shaped; ovules 10 or 

 fewer, in 2 rows on the central suture. Capsule dehiscing by a dorsal 

 valve. Seeds oblong, somewhat curved, with a fleshy aril. — Naturally 

 only a hexamerous-flowered group of the genus Epiiiiedium. 



1. V. hexandi-a, Morr. & Dec. Ann. Sc. Nat. 2 ser. ii. 351 (1831); 

 Hook. Fl. i. 31. t. 13 (1829), under Epimedluin. More or less villous with 

 brownish hairs, 1—2 ft. high: leaves long-petioled, spreading; leaflets 

 1 — 2 in. broad, petiolulate, subcordate, obtusely 3-lobed, emarginate, the 

 color light green, the textxire thin, the whole leaf dying at end of siimmer : 

 scape exceeding the leaves; fl. 8 — 15 in a nearly simple raceme, yellowish-, 

 white or yellow, J^ in. long: ovary glandular-pubescent. — From Hum- 

 boldt Co., ChesniU tO Dreii\ northward, in woods. 



2. V. parvittora, Greene, Pittonia, ii. 100 (1890): V. hexandva, 

 Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. i. 66, not Morr. & Dec. Half as large as the 

 preceding; leaves dark green or purplish, subcoriaceous, persistent 

 through the year: fl. small and numerous, 25 — 50 in a panicle, white, or 

 with a tinge of lavender: ovary glabrous. — Common on bushy hills of 

 the Coast Range, from Santa Cruz to Marin Co. ; perhaps also farther 

 northward. This, although formerly taken to be the real T'. hexaitdra, 

 is a most distinct species. 



3. ACHLYS, De CandoUe. Perennial herb; the long-petioled leaves 

 parted into 3 broad fan-shaped leaflets. Flowers small, spicate at sum- 

 mit of a tall slender scape. Sepals and petals 0. Stamens 6 — 12; fila- 

 ments filiform, unequal, dilated upwards; anthers didymous, broader 

 than long. Ovary ovate; stigma sessile. Capsule small, spherical, 

 dehiscent by a valve, 1-seeded. Seed affixed to the base of the capsule. 



1. A. triphylla, DC. Syst. ii. 35 (1821); Smith; Rees Cycl. (1812 ?), 

 under Leontice. Rootstock creeping, ascending: leaves 2 or 3, on erect 

 petioles 1 ft. long or more: leaflets 3—5 in. long, palmately nerved, the 

 outer margin irregularly and coarsely sinuate: scape solitary, equalling 

 the leaves; spike 2—4 in. long; fl. small, white, fragrant: fr. 2 lines 

 thick. — From Mendocino Co., Bolander, northward, in deep woods. 



