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long, the hract truncate to acute, silky : fertile aments stouter, lj^-4 

 inches long, with acute or acuminate bracts: fruit globose, densely silky- 

 tomentose sessile, 3-5 lines in diameter. Along the coast of Oregon and 

 California. 



6. bnxifolia Gray Proc. Am. Acad. vii, 349. A small shrub 2-4 feet 

 high : leaves oblong-elliptical. 12-18 lines long, 4-8 lines broad, acute at 

 each end, glabrous above, densely white-silky beneath: petioles 1-3 lines 

 long: fertile aments 1-3 inches long, the short bracts acute, more or less 

 silky: fruit glabrous, globose, subsessile, 2>-3 lines in diameter. On dry 

 hillsides, southwestern Oregon to Mendocino County California. 



