SILK TASSEL FAMILY 675 



Pubescence of straight silky hairs or almost glabrous ; leaves plane. 



Leaves commonly yellowish (or bright green above), glabrous above and also below or 



nearly so ; fruit glabrous, or seldom pubescent in maturity; n. Cal 3. G. fremontii. 



Leaves not yellowish, white-silky beneath ; fruit silky-pubescent. 



Leaves glaucous-gray above, 1^/^ to 3 inches long; mainly ranges bordering the deserts.... 



4. G. flavescens. 



Leaves glossy dark-green above, % to 1% inches long; North Coast Eanges 



5. G. iuxifolia. 



1. G. elliptica Dougl. Silk Tassel Bush. Commonly a shrub 5 to 8, or 

 rarely a small tree up to 20 feet high ; leaf -blades elliptical or narrower, the margin 

 undulate and more or less revolute, glabrous above, tomentose beneath with short 

 curly or wa\'y hairs, 1% to 2i/2 inches long; catkins solitary or clustered, the 

 staminate 4 to 7 inches long, with truncate or acute silky bracts and the calyx- 

 segments cohering at tip, the pistillate shorter, 2 to 4 inches long, with acute or 

 acuminate bracts ; ovary sessile ; fruit globose, 3 to 5 lines in diameter, densely 

 white-tomentose, in extreme age glabrate ; seed oval, 2 lines long. 



Hill slopes and along winter water-courses. 20 to 1500 feet : Coast Ranges near 

 the sea, from San Luis Obispo Co. to Del Norte Co. North along the Oregon 

 coast. Jan.-Feb., fr. June-July. 



Field note. — The foliage in general aspect is a little suggestive of that of Quercus agrifolia. 

 The contrast between the dark green and often glossy upper side of the leaf and the white- 

 tomentose lower side is usually marked. This species inhabits only the seaward Coast Range, 

 save opposite the sea pass of the Golden Gate where it enters the Berkeley and Oakland Hills 

 and opposite the Bodega fog gap where it occurs in the Hoods Peak range. 



Locs. — Chorro Creek, San Luis Obispo Co., Gondii; Pico Blanco, Monterey Co., Davy 7333; 

 Carmel, Patterson 4" Wilts; Corralitos, Santa Cruz Co., Jepson 14,153; Gold Gulch, Santa Cruz 

 Co., R. E. Burton; Los Gatos, Heller 7220; Saratoga, Jepson 5635; Black Mt., Santa Clara Co., 

 BaTcer 200; Lake Pilarcitos, San Mateo Co., Davy; Redwood Peak, Oakland Hills, Jepson; Lake 

 Temescal, Berkeley Hills, Bioletti; Angel Isl., McLean; Mt. Tamalpais, Jepson; Bolinas ridge, 

 Marin Co., Jepson 10,308; Inverness, Jepson 500a; Bodega, Vina W. Krager ; Hoods Peak, 

 Sonoma Co., M. S. BaTcer 1; Ft. Bragg, W. C. Mathews; Samoa, Humboldt Bay, Tracy 7231; 

 Trinidad, n. Humboldt coast, Geo. Parrish ; Smith River, Del Norte Co., Goddard 351. 



Refs. — Garrya elliptica Dougl.; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1686 (1835), type from Cal., Douglas; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 362 (1901), ed. 2, 304 (1911), Man. 731, fig. 714 (1925). 



2. G. veatchii Kell. Canon Tassel Bush. Shrub 6 to 8 feet high ; leaf -blades 

 oval, 1 to 2 inches long, slightly undulate, short-acuminate or almost aristate, short- 

 petioled, smooth and shining above, densely tomentose below with short very fine 

 closely curled hairs ; fruit densely tomentose, 2^ to 4 lines in diameter. 



Dry caiion and mountain sides, 150 to 7000 feet : cismontane Southern Cali- 

 fornia from Santa Barbara Co. to San Diego Co. ; perhaps also in Mariposa Co. 

 South to Lower California. Jan.-May. 



Locs. — Romero Canon trail near Montecito, A. L. Grant 1671; Tuna Canon, Verdugo Hills, 

 Los Angeles, MacFadden 2940; Arroyo Seco near Los Angeles, Braunton 791; betw. Fish Creek 

 and Monrovia Canon, San Gabriel Mts., Ottley 626; San Antonio Canon (n. of Claremont), Peir- 

 son 139; Cajon Pass, Parish 2844; Mt. San Jacinto, B. D. Stark; San Jacinto River canon, 

 Parish 11,697; Campo, San Diego Co., Hall. 



Refs. — Garrya veatchii Kell. Proc. Cal. Acad. 5:40 (1873), type loc. Cedros Isl., Veatch; 

 Jepson, Man. 732 (1925). G. veatchii var. palmeri Eastw. Bot. Gaz. 36:458 (1903). G. flavescens 

 var. palmeri Wats. Bot. Cal. 1:276 (1876), type loc. Milquatay, San Diego Co., Palmer. G. 

 veatchii var. undulata Eastw. I.e. 36:458 (1903), type loc. Pasadena, Allen. G. congdonii Eastw. 

 I.e. 36:459 (1903), type loc. Coulterville, Mariposa Co., Congdon (ex char.). 



3. G. fremontii Torr. Bear Brush. Shrubs 5 to 7 (or 10) feet high; leaf- 

 blades elliptical, varying to oblong, tapering to each end, glabrous and shining 

 above, gray-puberulent or white-tomentose beneath, in age often very glabrous and 

 yellow, particularly on the under surface, not undulate, II/4 to 2l^ inches long, 

 on petioles 6 lines long ; catkins solitary or in clusters of 2 to 6, with acute some- 

 what silky bracts ; staminate catkins 2 to 3 inches long ; pistillate catkins about 1^/2 

 inches long, the ovary and young fruit very silky; fruiting catkins l^/^ to 3^ 



