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2. A. sparsifolium Torr. An arborescent, resinously glandular 

 shrub, 2-6 m. high, vAth. reddish brown trunks; leaves not fascicled, 

 narrowly linear, 7-15 mm. long, glandular; flowers in open showy 

 panicles; calyx-lobes rounded, whitish, 2 mm. long, half the length 

 of the white petals. 



A common species in the chaparral of the San Jacinto Moun- 

 tains, extending southward to northern Lower California. It has 

 also been collected in the Santa Monica Mountains, Hasse. 



9. ALCHEMILLA L. Lady's Mantle. 



Ours small annual herbs with leafy stems and minute 

 green flowers in the axils of the palmately lobed leaves. 

 Calyx-tube urceolate, its limb 4-parted with alternating 

 minute bractlets. Petals none. Stamens 1 or 2, minute. 

 Pistils 1 or 2, slender; style rising from near the base of 

 the ovary; ovule 1, ascending. Achene ovate, com- 

 pressed, enclosed in the persistent calyx. 



1. A. aivense (L.) Scop. Slender, simple or much branched 

 from the base, 4-10 cm. high; floriferous and hirsute throughout; 

 leaves 3-parted, the segments 2-3-cleft; calyx-tube much contracted 

 under the 4-parted limb. 



Occasional in shady places or along streams in the foothills. 



10. ROSA L. Rose. 



Prickly shrubs with odd-pinnate leaves, adnate stipules 

 and large solitary or corymbose flowers. Calyx-tube 

 globose or urceolate; its limb 5-parted; bractlets none. 

 Petals 5, rounded, spreading. Stamens many on the 

 silky disk, which lines the calyx-tube. Pistils many, 

 included in the calyx- tube, but free and distinct; styles 

 subterminal; ovules solitary, pendulous. Achene bony, 

 enclosed in the fleshy enlarged red berry-like calyx-tube. 



1. R. calif ornica C. & S. Erect, branching, 1-3 m. high; prickles 

 few, stout, usually recurved; foliage of firm texture, more or less 

 glandular and tomentose; stipules entire; leaflets 5-7, ovate or 

 oblong; serratures mostly simple, spreading; corymb mostly few- 

 flowered; pedicels pubescent and glandular; calyx-lobes foliaceous- 

 tipped; fruit globose, 8-12 mm, in diameter; persistent lobes erect. 



Frequent in the valleys and mountains. Flowering often nearly 

 the year round. 



Family 46. MALACEAE. Apple Family. 



Trees and shrubs with alternate simple or pinnate 

 leaves, the stipules free from the petiole, small and 



