Rose Family L97 



panicles of small white flowers. Calyx turbinate, 5-parted, 

 the lobes at Length inflexed over the carpels and becom- 

 ing fleshy. Petals rounded, concave. Stamens 10 ; fila- 

 ments dilated at base and somewhat connate Ovary 

 ■2 3-celled, 4 6-ovuled ; styles 2 3. Fruit a red ovoid 

 berry-like pome; carpels tree from the fleshy calyx-tube 

 above the middle. 



1. H. arbutifolia (Poir.) Roem. Usually 3-6 m. high, nascent 



parts tomentulose; leaves narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 5-10 cm. long, remotely serrate or dentate, dark green and shin- 

 ing; fruit about 6 mm. long. 



Common in the chaparral belt. May-June. 



3. RUBUS L. 



how shrubs or trailing vines, usually prickly, with 

 alternate leaves, the stipules adnate to the petioles. 

 Flowers terminal or axillary, solitary, racemose or pani- 

 (ded. white or purplish, mostly perfect. Calyx persist- 

 ent, bractless, deeply 5-parted. Petals 5. Stamens 

 many, inserted on the calyx, distinct. Carpels many, 

 inserted on a convex or elongated receptacle, ripening 

 into drupelets and forming an aggregate fruit. Ovules 2, 

 1 abortive ; style terminal, slender. Seed pendulous. 



* Leaves simple, palmately lobed; stems unarmed. 



1. R. parviflorus Nutt. (Salmon Berry.) Stems erect, 1-2.5 

 m. high, without prickles ; bark smooth or somewhat glandular- 

 pubescent, becoming brown and shreddy ; leaves palmately 

 5-lobed, cordate at base, unequally serrate, 10-15 cm. broad, gla- 

 brous, or somewhat tomentose on the veins beneath ; petioles and 

 peduncles hirsute-glandular; flowers few, corymbose, white, 2—1 

 cm. broad; calyx-lobes tipped with a long slender appendage; 

 fruit separating from the receptacle when ripe, hemispheric, 

 red. (R. Nutkanus Mocino.) 



In moist shady places in the San Antonio and San Bernardino Mountains 

 in the pine belt. April-June. 



