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trate, stoloniferoue, with branches usually bright red-purple and smooth : 

 branch lets and inflorescence appressed-pubescent : petioles 3-18 lines long; 

 leaves fronj lanceolate to broadly ovate or oblong, short- or long-acuminate 

 or only acute, mostly obtuse at base, minutely appressed- pubescent above, 

 more or less white and appressed pubescent beneath with straight rigid 

 hairs: flowers mostly in small cymes: calyx-teeth minute: fruit white or 

 lead-color: stones very variable, from ->vateand pointed scarcely flattened, 

 higher than broad, to more or less flattened, broader than high, these 

 extremes completely connected by intermediate shapes and dimensions, 

 all with more or less furrowed edge. From Sew Brunswick to the histrict 

 ol Columbia and westward to the I ascade Mountains and trit Columbia, 

 New Mexico and Arizona. 



. glabruta Hnth. Hot. Milph. 18. A shrub -4-12 feet hk'h, with 

 ereci and mostly biifhy smooth branches bearing usually crowded small 

 leave-: branchlets and inflorescence glabrous or nearly so: petioles short 

 and Blender: leaves lanceolate to nearly ovate or oblong, acute at each end 

 IflabroUH to sparsely and minutely appre*aed pubescent on both sides, the 

 lower surface but little paler than the upper: flowers in numerous small 

 open cymes: calyx-teeth prominent: fruit white or light blue: stone- but 

 litttle "compressed, not furrowed, broader than high. .Along streams, 

 southwest Oregon to California. 



OKDER LXVI GARRYACEjE Undl. Bot. Rejr. xx. t. 1686 



Shrubs or small trees with opposite persistent entire leaves 

 and dioecious flowers in aments or catkins. Calyx adnate to 

 the ovary, the limb 4-tooihed valvate in the bud. Petals 

 none. Stamens 4. inserted on the epigynous disk. Ovary 

 1-celled, with '2 pendulous o vules. rruit baccate, crowned 

 with the remains of the calyx, seeds anat opous. .Embryo 

 nearly as long as the i'.eshy albumen. 



1 (AKKY.A Doujrl. Undl. 1. c. 



Evergreen shrubs \vi:h jrreenish bark, opposite entire coriaee- 

 ous leaves and dioecious Mowers in axillary pendulous aments, 

 solitary or in threes between the drcussau-ly connate bracts. 

 Calyx of the sterile flowers 4-parted. with linear vnlvat** segments. 

 Stamens 4: filaments distinct: disk and rudimentary ovary 

 none. Calyx of the fertile flowers wiili a shortly "J-lobed or ob 

 solete limb: disk and rudimentary stamens none. Ovary 1 celled 

 with 2 pendulous ovules, Styles - J, stigmatic on the inner side, 

 persistent. Berry 1-2-seeded. 



ti. Frentontii Torr. Pac. U. Kep. iv, 13^. A shrub 4-12 feet high, 

 becoming glabrous: petioles 3-9 line-* long: leaves ovate to oblong or 

 elliptical, mostly acute at en'h end. usually somewhat mucronate, enure, 

 smooth or nearly so on l*>th ^ides: fertile aments 2)^-5 inchew long : bracts 

 prominent, connate to above the middle, a-ute. somewhat silky : fruit 

 globose, becoming glahrous, short- pedicellate, 2-3 lines in diameter. 

 On dry hillsides, Oregon to California. 



tt. elliptica Dougl. Lindl. 1. c. \ tout shrub or small tree o-l<> feet 

 high: petioles 3-6 line long: leave? elliptical, rounded at base, round or 

 acute and mucronate at the apex, undulate on the margins, smooth above, 

 densely totnentose beneath, 2-5 inches long: sterile aments 3-15 inches 



