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3. LAUROCERASUS. Hotty-LEAvep CHERRY. 
1. LAUROCERASUS ILICIFOLIA (Nutt.) Roem. Syn. Rosifl. 92. 
1847. 
Cerasus ilicifolia Nutt.; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beach. Voy. 340. 
1832. 
Prunus ilicifolia Walp. Rep. 2: 10. 1843. 
Type locality: “St. Barbara, California, Douglas, Nuttall.” 
Distribution: Coast Ranges from San Francisco Bay south to 
the southern borders of the State. In the northern part of its 
range this species often becomes a good sized tree, but in our region 
it is usually reduced to a shrub. The holly-leafed cherry is com- 
mon throughout southern California in the foothills and moun- 
tains. Upper Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Santa Barbara, Douglas; Nuttall; Santa 
Ynez Mountains, Elmer 3775; Cuddy Canyon, near Tejon Pass, 
Abrams €§ McGregor 282; Sepulveda Canyon, Santa Monica 
Mountains, Abrams 2551; Mount Lowe, Grant 1046; hills near Ver- 
dugo, Abrams 1380; Reche Canyon, Hall rro4; vicinity of San 
Bernardino; Parish, June, 1897, Potrero, Abrams 3741; moun- 
tains east of San Diego, Parry 1850; Jacumba Hot Spring, 
Mearns 3354. 
4. AMYGDALUS. Atmonp. 
Leaves narrowly spatulate, entire; styles very short. 1. A. fasiculata. 
Leaves ovate or nearly round; denticulate; styles elongated. 2. 4. Fremonti. 
1. AMyGDALUs FascicuLaTa (Torr.) Greene, Fl. Fran. 49. 1891. 
Emplectocladus fasciculatus Torr. Pl. Frem.1o, pl. 5. 1850. Pru- 
nus fasciculata A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 70. 1874. 
Type locality: “Sierra Nevada of California; probably in the 
southern part of the range.” 
Distribution: Desert slopes of the San Bernardino Mountains 
north to the eastern slopes of the southern Sierra Nevada and east- 
ward to southern Utah and Arizona. Canyons and rocky slopes 
of the juniper belt. Upper and Lower Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Rock Creek, desert slope of the San 
Gabriel Mountains, Abrams &§ McGregor 525; Lone Pine Canyon, 
San Gabriel Mountains, Abrams 2 McGregor 668; Cushenberry 
Spring, Abrams 2152; summit of Providence Mountains, Cooper, 
May 29, 1861. 
