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Northern Sierra Nevada and north to Idaho; east to New Mexico. On 

 Pseudotsuga taxifolia. 



Locs. — Sierra Valley ace. Bot. Cal. 2; 106; Mt. Shasta, Hall # Babcock 4078. 



Var. abietinum Eugelni. Larger, the stems 1 to 5 inches long. — Bear Val- 

 ley, Nevada Co.. on Abies concolor; northward to Washington. 



Eefs. — Akceuthobium douolasii Engelm. Bot. Wheeler, 2.53 (187S), type spms. from the 

 Southwest. lia:oumofskya douglat^ii Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 587 (1891). Var. abietinum 

 Engehii. in Bot. Cal. 2: 106 (1880), type loc. Sierra Valley, Lemmon. 



3. A. cajnpylopodiun Engelm. Stems diehotomously branched, 4 to 15 

 inches long, the branches bearing numerous spikes, the lower spikes commonly 

 with accessory spikes in the axils; stamiuate plants deep yellow, their spikes 

 dense, i/o to % inch long ; pistillate plants olive-brown, their spikes 14 to 1 

 inch long, paniculate ; berries brown, oblong-elliptie, 2 to 21/2 lines long. 



Southern California; Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada. North to British 



Columbia. On Pinus. 



Logs. — Hamburg, Siskiyou Co., Builer 1070, on Pinus ponderosa; Russian Creek, Siskiyou 

 Co., BwUer 273, on P. tuberculata; Sisson, Jepson, on P. ponderosa; Elk Mt., Lake Co., 

 Tracy 23.55, on P. ponderosa; Samuel's Sprs., Napa Co., Jepson, on P. sabiniana ; Mt. St. 

 Helena, Jepnon, on P. tuberculata; Conn Valley, Napa Range, Jepson, on P. ponderosa; Mt. 

 Diablo, Jepson, on P. sabiniana; Mt. Hamilton. Chandler 6022, on P. sabiniana; San Ber- 

 nardino Mts., Parish, on P. coulteri; Mt. San Jacinto, Hall 2566, on P. lambertiana, 2616, on P. 

 ponderosa; Bower Cave, Jepson, on P. ponderosa; Snow Creek, Yosemite, Hall, on P. jeffreyi. 



Refs. — Akceuthobium camptlopodum Engelm. Jour. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 6: 214 (1850), 

 type loc. vicinity northern Idaho, Geyer. A. occidentale Engelm. in Bot. Cal. 2: 107 (1880). 

 Sazoumofskya occidentale Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 587 (1891); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 

 366 (1901). 



4. A. cryptopodum Engelm. Stout. 2 to 4 inches high, brownish yellow or 

 olive-brown; stamiuate plants smaller than the pistillate; stamiuate spikes 

 with buds tlattened against the spikes; anthers attached above the middle 

 of the lobes. 



Colorado and New Mexico to Arizona. IMineral Kidg and Soda Sprs., south- 

 em Sierra Nevada, ace. Coville (Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 192). On Pinus 

 ponderosa. 



Eefs. — Aeceuthobium cryptopodum Engelm. in Gray, .Tour. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 6: 214 

 (1850), type loc. Sante Fe, Fendler 283. A. robmtum Engelm. Bot. Wheeler, 254 (1878). 



5. A. divaricatum Engelm. Stout. 2 to 4 inches high, branches divaricately 

 spreading, often tlexuous or recurved; staminate flowers few and scattered; 

 pistillate spikes often with sterile ones behind them in the same axils; berry 

 li/o to 1% lines long. 



Providence Mts., Brandegee. East to Utah and New Mexico. On Pinus 

 monophylla. ' 



Ref. — Akceuthobium div.^ric.^tum Engelm. in Bot. Wheeler, 253 (1878), type spms. from 

 the Southwest. 



SANTALACEAE. Sandalwood Family. 



Herbs or shrubs, usually root parasites. Leaves simple, entire. Flowers 

 small, in ours perfect, mostly greenish. Corolla none. Calyx valvate. 4 or 

 5-cleft, the lower part of the tube adherent to the ovary. Stamens 3 to 6, 

 inserted opposite the calyx lobes and l)etween the lobes of the disk. Ovary 

 1-celled ; style one; stigma capitate; ovules 2 to 4, suspended from the top of 

 a free central placenta. Fruit indehiscent, nut-like, 1-seeded. Seeds without 

 testa. Embryo small, axile at one end of the abundant endosperm. — Tropical 

 or a few in the temperate zones, 26 genera and 250 species. 



1. COMANDRA Nutt. Bastard Toad-flax. 

 Perennial herbs witli rootstocks, striate stems and glabrous herbage. Leaves 

 alternate, nearly sessile, the lowest scale-like. Flowers greenish white, in 

 small terminal or axillary cymose clusters. Calyx campanulate or unishaped, 



