674 GARRYACEAE 



Refs.— TOBILIS NODOSA Gaertn. Fruct. 1:82, t. 20, f. 6 (1788); Jepson, Man. 703 (1925). 

 Tordylium nodosum L. Sp. PI. 240 (1753), "France, Italy." Caucalis nodosa Huds. Fl. Aiigl. ed. 

 2, 114 (1778) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 348 (1901 ), ed. 2, 293 (1911). 



40. CAUCALIS L. 



Annuals with decompound leaves dissected into small segments. Flowers white. 

 Umbels more or less irregularly compound. Involucre and involucels present. 

 Calyx-teeth prominent. Fruit flattened laterally. Primary ribs 5, filiform, bristly; 

 secondary ribs 4, prominent, winged, bearing barbed or hooked prickles. Oil-tubes 

 solitary in the intervals, i. e., under the secondary ribs, 2 on the face. — Species 5, 

 Europe, Asia and Africa. (Kaukalis, ancient Greek name for an umbelliferous 

 plant.) 



1. C. microcarpa H. & A. Erect, slender, 6 to 12 inches high ; leaves 2 or 3 

 times ternate and much dissected, slightly hispid ; umbels unequally 3 to 5-rayed ; 

 rays 1 to 3% inches long ; pedicels l^ to 6 lines long ; involucre of f oliaceous dis- 

 sected bracts ; involucels of entire or somewhat divided bractlets ; fruit oblong, 2 

 lines long, armed with rows of hooked prickles. 



Openly wooded hills, 100 to 3000 feet : coastal Southern California ; Coast 

 Ranges ; Sierra Nevada foothills from Tulare Co. to Shasta Co. North to Wash- 

 ington, east to Arizona and south to Mexico. Apr 



Locs. — S. Cal.: San Diego, Dunn; Fallbrook, Abrams 3318; Menifee, Riverside Co., Alice 

 King; San Bernardino foothills. Parish; Eaton Canon, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 132; Ft. 

 Tejon, Davy 2372. Coast Ranges: Arroyo Grande, Alice King; New Idria, Brewer 801; Los 

 Gatos, Heller 7469 ; Vaca Mts., Jepson 14,200 ; Scotts Valley, Lake Co., Tracy 1705 ; Lodoga, w. 

 Colusa Co., Jepson 16,275; Round Valley, Mendocino Co., Bolander 4699; Humboldt Bay, Tracy 

 2454; Hupa, Chandler 1315; Crane Creek, w. Tehama Co., Jepson 14,201. Sierra Nevada: Lime- 

 kiln Creek, Tulare Co., Jepson 2801; Chowchilla School, Mariposa Co., Jepson 12,815a; Mokelumne 

 Hill, Calaveras Co., F. E. Blaisdell; Little Chico Creek, B. M. Austin; Morleys sta., Shasta Co., 

 M. S. Baker. 



Refs. — Caucalis microcarpa H. & A. Bot. Beech. 348 (1840), type from Cal., Douglas; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 348 (1901), ed. 2, 293 (1911), Man. 704, fig. 683 (1925) ; C. & R. Contrib. 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. 7:70, fig. 8 (1900). 



GARRYACEAE. Silk Tassel Family 



Shrubs or small trees with quadrangular branchlets. Leaves simple, opposite, 

 evergreen, the short petioles basally and narrowly connate. Flowers dioecious, 

 apetalous, borne along a pendulous catkin-like axis, 1 (in case of the pistillate) or 

 a cyme of 3 (in case of the staminate) in the axil of each of the decussately connate 

 bracts. Staminate flower : — calyx 4-parted into linear valvate sepals ; stamens 4 ; 

 filaments distinct. Pistillate flower : — calyx with a shortly 2-lobed or obsolete limb ; 

 ovary inferior, 1-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules ; styles 2, stigmatic on the inner 

 side, persistent. Fruit a berry ; epicarp at maturity dry and brittle, free from the 

 pulpy portion and dehiscing irregularly, or sometimes circumcissile. Seeds with 

 thin testa and homy endosperm, the minute embryo at one end. — Genus 1. North 

 America. 



Bibliog. — Coulter, J. M., and Evans, W. H., [Revision of] Garrya (Bot. Gaz. 15:93-97, — 

 1890). Eastwood, A., Notes on Garrya with description of new species and key (Bot. Gaz. 36: 

 456^63,-1903). Waugerin, W., Garryaceae in Engler, Pflzr. 4-'«'':l-18, figs. 1-5 (1910). 



1. GARRYA Dougl. 



The only genus. — Species 13. (Nicholas Garry, of the Hudson Bay Co., friend 

 of David Douglas, the botanical explorer of Pacific North America, 1825-1832.) 



Pubescence of tangled curly hairs forming a close felt on under surface of the leaves; leaves 

 glabrous above. 



Leaves decidedly undulate-margined, more or less tomentose beneath ; Coast Ranges 



1. G. elliptica. 

 Leaves plane, felty-tomentose beneath; S. Cal 2. G. veatchii. 



