CORNER, 337 



9. C. \uttallii, Audubon, Birds, 467 (1838); T. & G. Fl. i. 652. Tree 

 15 — 70 ft. high, with ascending or widely spreading branches and smooth 

 bark: leaves 3 — 5 in. long, obovate, acute at each end, pubescent: bracts 

 of involucre usually 6, obovate to oblong, 1% — 3 in. long, abruptly acute 

 to acuminate, white, often tinged with red: head }^ — 1 in. broad, very 

 dense: fr. 5 — 6 lines long, scarlet. — In the Coast Range from Monterey 

 northward. May — July. 



2, GARRYA, Douglas. Evergreen shrubs with greenish bark, and 

 opposite entire coriaceous leaves. I'lowers dioecious, in axillary pendu- 

 lous aments, solitary or in threes between the decussately connate bracts. 

 Petals 0. Calyx of sterile flowers 4-parted, with linear valvate segments. 

 Stamens 4; filaments distinct; disk and rudimentary ovary 0. Calyx of 

 fertile flower with a shortly 2-lobed or obsolete limb; disk and rudi- 

 mentary stamens 0; ovary 1-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules; styles 2, 

 stigmatic on the inner side, persistent. Berry ovoid, 1 — 2-seeded, dark 

 blue or purple when ripe. 



1. G. elliptica, Dougl.; Bot. Reg. t. 1686 (1835); Greene, Gard. and 

 Forest, iii. 198. Shrub usually clustered, 5 — 15 ft. high: leaves % — 3 in. 

 long, dark green, elliptical, rounded or acute and mucronate at apex, 

 truncate or rounded at base, the margin undulate, glabrous above, 

 tomentose beneath: aments solitary or several; the sterile 4 — 10 in. long, 

 their silky bracts truncate or acute; calyx-segments cohering at tip: 

 fertile aments stouter, 2 — 6 in. long; bracts acute or acuminate; ovary 

 sessile, densely silky-tomentose: fr. globose, 4 lines thick. — In rich shady 

 places along streams, from Monterey northward. Feb. 



2. G. Fremonti, Torr. Pac. R. Rep. iv. 136 (1857). Shrub 5-10 ft. 

 high, glabrate: leaves light green, ovate or oblong, not undulate, 11.3—21^ 

 in. long, on petioles of ij in. or less: aments solitary, 2—3 in. long, with 

 acute somewhat silky bracts: ovaries nearly glabrous: fr. globose, 2 

 lines or more in thickness, short-pedicellate. — From Mt. Hamilton north- 

 ward, on dry slopes and summits. 



3. G. buxifolia, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 349 (1868). Shrub 2—5 ft. 

 high: leaves oblong-elliptical, 1— 1)^ in. long, 4—8 lines broad, acute at 

 each end, glabrous above, densely white-silky beneath; petioles 1—3 

 lines long: fertile aments 1 in. long, the short bracts acute, more or less 

 silky: fr. glabrous, globose, subsessile, 21/3— 3 lines thick.— Apparently 

 local on Red Mountain, Mendocino Co. 



