676 GARRYACEAE 



iuclios loiifT; mature fruit purple to black, g^labrous, 3 linos lou":, short-pediceled ; 

 seeds subjrlobose or oval, 1^^ lines long. 



Hijjh chaparral ridges and slopes, (1000 or) 2000 to 7000 feet: Coast Ranges 

 from Siskiyou Co. to Santa Clara Co. ; Sierra Nevada from Butte Co. to Mariposa 

 Co. ; San Jacinto IMts. North to Washington. Feb. -Mar. 



Locs. — North Coast Ranges: Yroka, Butler 1125; Marble Mt., w. Siskiyou Co., Chandler 

 1635; Shasta Sprs., Jcpson 14,157; Deadwood divide, above French Gulch, sw. Shasta Co., A. M. 

 Alcxcmdcr ; bet\T. Yocuniville and Indian Bar, South Fork Salmon River, Jepson 2087; Don Juan 

 Pt., Trinity River, Trinity Co., Tracy 7260; Bell Sprs., n. Mendocino Co., Davy 5346; Castle 

 Peak, ne. Mendocino Co., Jepson 14,154; Mt. St. Helena, Jepson 14,159; Weldon Canon, Vaca 

 Mts., Jepson 14,156; Howell Mt., Jepson 5316; Hood's Peak, Sonoma Co., M. S. Baker 3; Mt. 

 Tamalpaia, C. F. Baker 3168; Mt. Hamilton, Chandler 6055; Loma Prieta, Santa Clara Co., 

 Davy 509. Sierra Nevada: Buck Creek, Warner Mts., L. S. Smith 906; Jonesville, Butte Co., 

 Copeland 067; Johnstown, Plumas Co., L. S. Smith; Deadman Creek, near Sonora Pass, Jepson 

 6554; Bald Mt., Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 668; Snow Creek, Yosemite, Jepson 10,492. S. Cal.: 

 Tahquitz Valley, San Jacinto Mts., Halt 2452. 



Refs. — Gaurya fremontii Torr. Pac. R. Rep. 4:136 (1856), type loc. upper Sacramento 

 River, Fremont; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 363 (1901), ed. 2, 304 (1911), Man. 732 (1925). G. 

 rigida Eastw. Bot. Gaz. 36:461 (1903), type loc. Mt. Tamalpais, Eastwood. G. fremontii var. 

 laxa Eastw. Bot. Gaz. 36:462 (1903), type loc. Twin Lakes, Canon Creek, n. Trinity Co., East- 

 wood; petioles 10 lines long; "peduncles" twice as long as the involucres (ex char.). 



4. G. flavescens Wats. Utah Tassel Bush. Large spreading shrub 6 to 12 

 feet high; herbage more or less pubescent with closely appressed straight silky 

 hairs and with a glaucous gray color over entire plant ; leaf-bades oval to elliptic, 

 entire, acute at each end and recurved-mucronulate at apex, lower surface more or 

 less densely pubescent, upper with scattered irregularly appressed hairs or gla- 

 brous, ll^ to 3 inches long ; catkins solitary or clustered, the fertile short and thick ; 

 fruit globose, densely pubescent, almost sessile, 3 lines in diameter. 



Arid montane slopes and ridges, 2000 to 6300 feet : Southern California moun- 

 tains ; north in the inner South Coast Range to San Benito Co. and in the Sierra 

 Nevada to Fresno Co. East to Utah. Apr. 



Tax. note. — Spms. from St. George, Utah, Jones 5005 (awthentic material of Garrya flav- 

 escens), agree extremely well in leafage, pubescence and general aspect with spms. from the 

 Charleston Mts., s. Nev. (Purpus 6091), and with the spms. cited below from the southern Sierra 

 Nevada. The young leaves, green above and silky beneath, tend to become yellow in age and 

 sometimes more or less glabrate. 



Locs. — S. Cal.: Laguna Mts., e. San Diego Co., Cleveland; Julian, e. San Diego Co., T. Bran- 

 degee; Warner Pass, Jepson 8748; Santa Rosa Mts., Clary 1221; Cajon Pass, Parish; Rock 

 Creek, n. side San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 138 ; Mt. Pinos, n. Ventura Co., Hall 6499 ; Providence 

 Mts., T. Brandegee. Inner South Coast Range: San Emigdio Canon, Davy 2126; San Benito 

 Co., Hall 9940. Southern Sierra Nevada: Piute Peak, Kern Co., Purpus 5519; Little Kern 

 Lake, Kern Canon, Jepson 4922 ; Salt Creek, Tulare Co., Eastwood; Kings River Canon, Newlon 

 233; Huntington Lake, A. L. Grant 1401. 



Var. venosa Jepson. Leaves hairy-pubescent and dark green above, white beneath with a 

 dense covering of long silky hairs, tipped with a cuspidate point % to 1 line long. — Yollo Bolly 

 foothills, western Tehama Co. 



Refs. — Garrya flavescens Wats. Am. Nat. 7:301 (1873), based on material from "southern 



Nev. and Utah to Ariz, and N. Mex." ; Jepson, Man. 732 (1925) . Garrya ? Wats. Bot. 



King 421 (1871). G. veatchii var. flavescens C. & E. Bot. Gaz. 15:96 (1890). G. pallida Eastw. 

 Proc. Cal. Acad. Bot. ser. 3, 2:287 (1902), type loc. Kings River Canon, Eastwood. Var. venosa 

 Jepson, Man. 732 (1925), type loc. Greasewood HiUs, w, Tehama Co., Jepson 178f. 



5. G. buxifolia Gray. Dwarf Tassel Bush. Low or depressed flat-topped 

 bush 8 to 16 inches high and 3 to 4i/4 feet wide, or more erect and up to 10 feet 

 high ; leaf -blades elliptic to oval or broadly ovate, mostly obtuse but apiculate or 

 mucronate, green and glossy above, densely white-silky beneath, I/2 to 1% (or 2) 

 inches long ; catkins slender, 1^ to 2 V2 inches long ; capsule dark brown or purple, 

 glabrous or nearly glabrous when mature. 



Rocky summits, 4500 feet : northern Mendocino Co. ; Siskiyou and Del Norte 

 Cos. North to Josephine Co., Oregon. Mar. 



