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2. ODOSTEMON Raf. 



Shrubs with compound leaves, the stems without spines; leaflets mostly coriaceous, 

 persistent, sinuate-dentate with few or many spiny teeth; flowers in rather loose 

 racemes, the parts, except the pistil, in 6's; fruit a few-seeded berry. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Low shrub, 10 to 30 cm. high, with but few leaves; leaflets with 



numerous small teeth 1. 0. repens. 



Tall shrubs, often 150 cm. high or more, with numerous leaves; 

 leaflets with few coarse teeth. 



Leaves trifoliolate; fruit red 2. 0. trifoliolatus. 



Leaves with 5 to 7 leaflets; fruit variously colored. 



Leaflets usually 7, oblong-ovate, bright green, mostly more 



than 3 cm. long 5. 0. u ilea 



Leaflets 5, lanceolate, glaucous, 3 cm. long or mostly less. 



Fruit juicy, not inflated at maturity, blood red; 



terminal leaflet long-attenuate, comparatively 



narrow 3. 0. haemato- 



carpus. 

 Fruit dry and inflated at maturity, dark blue ;• terminal 



leaflet acute, broad 4.0. fremontii. 



1. Odostemon repens (Lindl.) Cockered, Univ. Mo. Stud. Sci. 2 2 : 125. 1911. 



Oregon grape. 



Berberis repens Lindl. in Edwards's Bot. Reg. 14: pi. 1176. 1828. 



Berberis nana Greene, Pittonia 3: 98. 1896. 



Type locality: "A native of the north-western part of North America." 



Range: British Columbia and Wyoming to California and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Tunitcha and Carrizo Mountains; Dulce; Chama; Ramah; Santa Fe 

 and Las Vegas mountains; Zuni Mountains; Sandia Mountains; Black Range; Luna; 

 Sacramento Mountains. Shaded hillsides, in the Transition and ( lanadian zones. 



A decoction of the leaves and branches of this plant was used by the Navahos in 

 treating rheumatism. 



2. Odostemon tzifoliolatus (Moric.) Heller, Muhlenbergia 7: 139. 1912. 

 Berberis trifoliolata Moric. PI. Amer. Rar. 113. pi. 69. 1841. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Republica Mexicana, inter Laredo ei Bijar.'' 1 This is 

 now Texas. The type was collected by Berlandier. 



Range: Western Texas to Arizona. 



New Mexico: Near Hermanas; I arrizalillo Mountains. Dry bills, in the Lower 

 Bonoran Zone. 



3. Odostemon haematocarpus (Wool on i Holler, Muhlenbergia 7: L39. L912. 

 Berberis haematocarpa Wooton, Bull. Torrey club 25: 304. 1898. 



Type locality: Mescalero Agency in the White Mountains, New Mexico. Type 

 collected by Wooton | no. 3 



Range: Now Mexico and southern Arizona. 



X i:w M exico: Manzano and Sandia Mountains; Gallinas Mountains; Bla< 

 Carlisle; Carrizalillo Mountah i and San Andreas mountains; White and 



Sacramento mountains; Guadalupe Mountains. Dry hillsides, in the Upper Sonoran 

 Zone. 



This is a fairly common shrub on the lower dopes of the mountains in the southern 



part of the State. The berries are brigb.1 l>l I red, pleasantly acid to the taste, and 



jellies. The shnii« is evergreen and is well worth cultivation for 

 decorum e purposes. 



