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4. G. siccatum Wight. Somewhat suffrutescent below, branched 

 and bushy, sometimes reclining, the whole plant cinereous-puberu- 

 lent; leaves linear, 8-16 mm. long, not rigid, barely mucronulate; 

 inflorescence cymose-paniculate; flowers polygamous, greenish- 

 yellow; fruit 2 mm. broad, densely hispid with straight hairs. 



Wilson's Peak, McClatchie; Santa Monica Mountains. 



5. G. grande McClatchie. Suffrutescent, evergreen, the woody 

 stems 6-10 mm. in diameter, 10-24 dm. long, erect or reclining on 

 bushes; herbaceous branches and leaves cinereous-hirsute or his- 

 pidulous; leaves in 4's, elliptic-oblong, acute or acuminate, 6-12 mm. 

 long; flowers numerous, polygamous, greenish-yellow, terminal or 

 sometimes axillary, 1-5 on a peduncle, 2-5 mm. broad; ovary densely 

 hirsute; mature fruit baccate, clothed with stiff hairs, at first white, 

 becoming black, about 4 mm. broad. 



Frequent in the upper portions of the chaparral belt of the San 

 Gabriel Mountains. 



6. G. califomicum H. & A. Wholly herbaceous, from slender 

 creeping rootstocks, often in low tufts, 8-30 mm. high, hirsute 

 throughout; stems slender; leaves in 4's, thin, ovate to elliptic, 

 acute or acuminate, 6-12 mm. long; flowers polygamous, few, ter- 

 minal, yellowish-white; fruit baccate, clothed with scattered hairs, 

 pearly white, changing to black in drying, 2-3 mm. in diameter. 



Frequent in all the mountains, mostly above 3000 feet altitude. 



7. G. nuttallii Gray. Suffrutescent below, often climbing, 

 6-15 dm. high, the angles of the stems and margins of the leaves 

 roughened or hispidulous, otherwise glabrous; leaves in 4's, thickish, 

 oval to linear-oblong, mucronulate or obtuse, 3-6 mm. long; fruit 

 glabrous, purple, 4 mm. broad. 



Common in the foothills throughout our range. 



8. G. andrewsii Gray. Densely matted, the prostrate stems 

 rooting at the joints, 5-10 cm. long, grayish, sparsely scabrous or 

 smooth; leaves crowded, acerose-subulate, 4-8 mm. long; flowers 

 dioecious, male slender-pedicelled in few-flowered terminal cymes, 

 female solitary, subtended by a whorl of leaves which are longer 

 than the at length reflexed pedicel; berry whitish, becoming dark- 

 colored. 



On dry ridges in the upper portions of the chaparral belt and 

 extending into the pine belt of the San Gabriel, San Bernardino and 

 Cuyamaca Mountains. 



FamUy 99. CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 



Honeysuckle Family. 



Shrubs, trees, vines or perennial herbs, with opposite 

 simple or pinnate leaves, and perfect, regular or irregu- 

 lar, mostly cymose flowers. Calyx-tube adnate to the 

 ovary, its limb 3-5-toothed or 3-5-lobed. Corolla 5- 



