342 CAPRirOLIACE^, 



their buds ventricose with the upper edge curved outward; calyx 3 5 

 (usually 4-) -parted, \% — 2 lines wide: anthers sessile below the middle 

 of the lanceolate acuminate lobes: fr. 'I}4, lines long.— On various conifers 

 of both mountain ranges, from middle parts of the State northward. 



OkderLX. CAPRIFOLIACE/E. 



Eichard, Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat. iii. 172 (1826). 



Shrubs often trailing or climbing. Leaves opposite, mostly exstipu- 

 late. Flowers terminal and cymose or subspicate, or solitary or in pairs 

 in the leaf-axils, regular or irregular. Calyx-tube coherent with the 

 ovary; limb 5-toothed or obsolete. Corolla 4— 5-lobed or -cleft; the 

 lobes imbricate in bud. Stamens distinct. Ovary 2— 5-celled, or by 

 abortion 1-celled after flowering. Fruit a berry or drupe. 



Corolla rotate or broad-cam panulate, regular; style short or 0, - - - 1, 2 



campanulate to tubular, more or less irregular; style elongated, - 3—5 



1. SA.MBUCUS, Pliny (Eldeb). Shrubs or small trees, with stout 

 thick and very pithy shoots and branches, and pinnate foliage; leaflets 

 5—11, serrate; young shoots and foliage heavy-scented. Flowers small, 

 white or cream-color, very many, in compound cymes at the ends of 

 terminal and lateral shoots. Calyx with 5 minute teeth. Corolla rotate, 

 5-lobed. Stamens 5. Stigmas and ovary-cells 3—5. Fruits of the nature 

 of drupelets, though berry-like, each with 3 (rarely 4 or 5) separate seed- 

 like nutlets, each with a single seed. 



1. S. callicarpa. S. racemosn, Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 278, not Linn. 

 Arborescent, 10—25 ft. high, clustered, and each of the several trunks 

 often a foot in diameter; bark light brown, more flaky than fissured; 

 pith of shoots white: young twigs and foliage pubescent with sparse 

 stiff short somewhat retrorse hairs: young leaves with free ligulate 

 callous-tipped stipules 1—3 lines long: leaflets 2—5 pairs, often with 

 conspicuous false stipellse, or the later leaves on vigorous shoots com- 

 pletely bipinnate, the ordinary leaflets from oval to oblong-lanceolate, 

 abruptly acuminate, closely and rather deeply serrate, thin : cymes rather 

 small but flat-topped: corolla rotate, white: fr. bright red.— Very com- 

 mon by streams, and even in moist lowlands near the sea along the 

 Coast Range; perhaps also in the Sierra. The arborescent habit, stipu- 

 late and often bipinnate leaves, but more than all the broad and flat 

 rather than thyrsoid inflorescence and fruit-clusters, mark this as a 

 species very distinct from the Old World S. racemosa, in which latter 

 the corolla-lobes, moreover, are closely reflexed against the pedicel. The 

 eastern shrub, *S'. pubens, is easily distinguishable from both by a charac- 

 ter not hitherto mentioned, i. e., the large and rounded very conspicuous 



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