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bracts 4, white or cream-color, ovate, 3-8 lines long: fruit globular: stone 
smooth, not flattened, a little higher than broad. In the higher moun- 
tains and along the coast, across the continent as far north as forests grow, 
south to California and New Jersey. 
C. Suecica L. 1. c.. Stems sometimes branching above, 5-20 inches 
high : leaves sessile, all opposite, becoming smaller foarwarde: ovate or 
oval, acute, nerves all arising at or near the base, appressed-pubescent on 
both sides, uppermost leaves 1-3 inches long: peduncle 1-3 inches long: 
involucral bracts 4, white or cream-color, ovate 3-6 lines long: flowers dark 
purple: fruit globular: stone flattened, mostly with a shallow furrow on 
each face, acute, as broad as high. Alaska and across the continent: per- 
haps N. Washington. | ; ‘ 
. + + Shrubs or trees. 
C. Nuttallii Audubon Birds 467, T. & G. Fl. i, 652. A tree 20-75 feet 
high : leaves mostly obovate, on petioles 3-12 lines long, usually wooly- 
pubescent beneath, with intermixed appressed hairs: inyolucral ‘bracts 
4-6 or more, narrowly oblong to oboyate or eyen round, obtuse, 114-2 
inches long: heads of flowers 6-12 lines in diameter: fruit crowded among 
the abortive ovaries, crowned with the broad persistent calyx: stone 4-5 
lines high, 3-4 lines broad. Brit. Columbia to California west of the 
Cascade Mountains. 
* * Flowers yellowish, in sessile umbels, appearing before the 
leaves, involucrate with 4 small deciduous bracts. . 
C. sessilis Torr. Durand Pl. Pratt. 89. Shrub 10-15 feet high with 
greenish bark : leaves short-petioled, approximate, ovate, short acuminate, 
nearly smooth above, pale beneath, with appressed and silky pubescence: 
umbels terminal but becoming lateral by the development of the shoot: 
involucral bracts 3-4 lines long, about as long as the slender silky pedicels: 
fruit oblong, 6-7 lines long, 3-5 lines wide: stone oblong somewhat-pointed. 
and longitudinally rigid, 4-5 lines long, 2-24 lines broad. Northern Cali- 
fornia, perhaps reaches our limits. 
* * * Flowers white or cream-colored, cymose, not involucrate: 
fruit white, lead-colored or blue: leaves opposite. . 
C. pubescens Nutt Svly. iii, 54. Shrub 6-20 feet high with smoot 
red or purplish slender branches branchlets and inflorescence more or 
less hirsute: petioles 3-12 lines long; leaves from narrowly to broadly 
ovate or oval, acute or somewhat accuminate mostly acute at base; ap- 
pressed-pubescent or glabrous’ above, whitish silky-pubescent beneath 
flowers in more or less compact cymes; calyx-teeth minute: 
fruit white; stone somewhat compressed, mostly oblique, 
with a more or less prominently furrowed edge about 2 lines long by 24% 
lines broad, the sides apt to have more or less prominentridges Inalluvial 
places, Brit. Columbia to California west of the Cascade Mountains. 
C. Baileyi C. & E .Bot. Gaz. xv. 89. Erect shrub with reddish-brown 
mostly smooth branches: branchlets and inflorescence pubescent to woolly : 
petiole 6-12 lines long; leaves from lanceolate to ovate, acute or short- 
acuminate, acute or obtuse at base, appressed-pubescent to glabrous 
above, white beneath and with woolly hairs variously intermingled with 
appressed ones: flowers in small rather compact cymes: calyx-teeth from 
small to prominent; fruit white or bluish: stone decidedly compressed, 
flat-topped rarely oblique, with a very prominently furrowed edge, much 
broader than high. About the Great Lakes and westward to the Cascades 
of the Columbia. . 
C. stolonifera Michx. Fl. i, 92. Shrub 3-9 feet high, erect -or ros- 
