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California Art & Nature. 



California, is popularly known as the 

 wild coffee bush, or Yerba loso. Dr. 

 Rusby does not consider this to possess 

 any useful properties — at least no 

 virtues worthy of comparison with R. 

 Purshiana. Its large black berries are 

 sweet to the taste, but poisonous or at 

 least unwholesome, as children some- 

 times find to their cost. The seeds are 

 somowhat of the size and shape of 

 coffee berries — whence the common 

 name — and when separated from the 

 pulp and roasted are said to form a fair 

 substitute for coffee, though I should 

 prefer not to experiment with it my- 

 self. 



The bark of this species is popularly 

 considered efficacious in severe cases 

 of dysentery, and the leaves to possesp 

 cathartic properties — though both are 

 conceded to be dangerous remedies. 

 The receipt given me for dysentery is 

 to take one pound of the bark of the 

 root, boil in a quart of water until re- 

 duced to a pint. 



CONDALIA SPATHULATA A. Gray. 



Genus ADOLPHIA Melsner. 



ADOLPHIA CALIFORNICA S. Watson. 



Genus CEANOTHUS Linnaeus. 



CEANOTHUS CUNBATUS Nutt. 

 CEAKOTIIUS DIVARICATUS Nutt. 



CEANOTHUS DIVARICATUS Nutt. "Deer- 

 brush," a beautiful flowering shrub, with deli- 

 cats blue flowers. 



CEANOTHUS INTEGERRIMUS H.& A. 

 CEANOTHUS ORCUTTII Parry.- 



"Branches flexible, dull reddish, with 

 short, hispid pubescence; leaves petiolate, 

 broadly orbicular to oblong-cordate, 

 usually rounded obtuse, 30-40 mm. in 

 length, often as broad, irregularly glan- 

 dular-serrate, sparing. y. hi.spid above, 

 strongly triple-nerved beneath, with 

 prominent hairy clliate veins; Inflores- 

 cence axillary, oval scarcely exceeding 

 the leaves, rather compact, with pubes- 

 cent rachis, and smooth pedicels; fl. ap- 

 parently wh te or light blue (seen only in 

 fallen fragments); fr. glandular-hispid, 

 with corrugated resinous epicarp, and 

 conspicuous crests; seeds light brown."— 

 Parry, Proc. Dav. Acad. Natl. Sci. v. 

 194 (Aug. 31, 1889). 

 CEANOTHUS SPINOSA Nutt. 

 CEANOTHUS OLIGANTHUS Nutt. 

 CEANOTHUS MEGACARPUS Nutt. 

 CEANOTHUS CRASSIFOLIUS Nutt. 



CEANOTHUS VERRUCOSUS Nutt. 

 CEANOTHUS HIRSUTUS Nutt. 



CEANOTHUS RIGIDUS Nutt. 

 CEANOTHUS SOREMATUS H. & A. 

 CEANOTHUS VESTITUS Ge. 



"Near C. cuneatus, & like it in size & habit: 

 leaves & branchleis ashy-tomeniulose, the for- 

 mer opposite, coriaceous, substshile, 4-6 lines 

 long, round-obovate, obtuse or retuse, some- 

 what concave above, sharply spinulcse-den- 

 tate all around: fls white: capsule apparently 

 small, the short salient appendages Inserted 

 at about the middle."- Ge pitt 2 101 da 4 



C oliganthus Nutt da 4 



SAPINDACEAE. 

 Genus AESCLL.US Linnaeus. 



AESCULUS PARRYI A. Gray. 



Genus ACER Touriiefort. 



ACER CIRCINNATUM Pursh. 



ACER GLABRUM Torr. 



ACER MACROPHYLLUM Pursh. 



VITACEAE. 



Genus VITIS Tournefort. 



VITIS CALIFORNICA Benth. The wild 

 grapevine ol California. 



ANACARDIj!iCEAE. 

 Genus RHUS Linnaeus. 



RHUS AROMATICA Alt. 

 RHUS DIVERSILOBA T. & G. 

 RHUS I.,AURINA Nutt. 



RHUS INTEGRIFOLIA Nuttall. A stout 

 evergreen shrub, at times attaining to the 

 rank of a tree, and a diameter exceeding five 

 feet The rose colored flowers produced in 

 close panicles one to three inches long, fol- 

 lowed by deep brilliant red berries, coated 

 with an icy-looking, wax-like substance that 

 is even more tart than the pleasantly acid 

 berries. These berries make a cooling drink, 

 equal to lemonade (almost indistinguishable m 



In Southern and Lower California this is 

 often called Mahogany, from the rich and 

 beautiful color of the wood. 

 RHUS OVATA S. Watson. 



••A shrub, 5-10' high, glabrous excepting 

 the finely pubescent branches and the 

 bracts of the inflorescence: leaves coria- 

 ceous £ind shining, ovate, acute or acumi- 

 nate, entire or rarely sparingly toothed, 

 2-3' long, on a stout, usually reddish 

 petiole 4-8" long: fl. in dense closely 

 panicled spikes Va' long or less, the 

 rounded bracts and sepcls purilish; petals 

 light y.: fr. compressed-ovate, 2-3" 

 long, viscid-pubescent."— S. Watson, Proc. 

 Am. Acad., xx. 358-9 (Feb. 21, 1885). 



The Sugar-bush is a handsome ever- 

 green shrub, noted for its glossy foliage 

 and graceful, oval form. The small 

 dark red berries make a cooling drink, 

 pleasantly flavored resembling lemon- 

 ade, and when dry are covered with 

 a thin, waxy, white substance, that is 

 very sweet, which the Indians are said 

 to have formerly gathered for sugar. 



