Madder Family 379 



mucronulate; inflorescence cymose-paniculate; flowers polyga- 

 mous, greenish-yellow; fruit 2 mm. broad, densely hispid with 

 straight hairs. 



Wilson's Peak, McClatchie; Santa Monica Mountains. 



-----*- Fruit fleshy or berry-like, hispid, pubescent or smooth. 



5. G. grande McClatchie. Suffrutescent, evergreen, the woody 

 steins 6-10 mm. in diameter, 10-24 dm. long, erect or reclining on 

 bushes ; herbaceous branches and leaves cinereous-hirsute or his- 

 pidulous ; leaves in 4's, elliptic-oblong, acute or acuminate, 6-12 

 mm. long ; flowers numerous, polygamous, greenish-yellow, termi- 

 nal or sometimes axillary, 1-5 on a peduncle, 2-5 mm. broad ; 

 ovary densely hirsute; mature fruit baccate, clothed with stiff 

 hairs, at first white, becoming black, about 4 mm. broad. 



Frequent in the upper portions of the chaparral belt of the San Gabriel 

 Mountains. 



6. G. Californicum H. & A. Wholly herbaceous, from slen- 

 der creeping rootstocks, often in low tufts, 8-30 mm. high, hirsute 

 throughout; stems slender; leaves in 4's, thin, ovate to elliptic, 

 acute or acuminate, 6-12 mm. long; flowers polygamous, few, 

 terminal, yellowish-white; fruit baccate, clothed with scattered 

 hairs, pearly white, changing to black in drying, 2-3 mm. in 

 diameter. 



Frequent in all the mountains, mostly above 3000 feet altitude. 



7. G. Nuttallii Gray. Suffrutescent below, often climbing, 

 6-15 dm. high, the angles of the stems and margins of the leaves 

 roughened or hispidulous, otherwise glabrous ; leaves in 4's, 

 thickish, oval to linear-oblong, mucronulate or obtuse, 3-6 mm. 

 long; fruit glabrous, purple, 4 mm. broad. 



Common in the foothills throughout our range. 



8. G. Andrews!! Gray. Densely matted, the prostrate stems 

 rooting at the joints, 5-10 cm. long, grayish, sparsely scabrous or 

 smooth ; leaves crowded, acerose-subulate, 4-8 mm. long; flowers 

 dioecious, male slender-pedicelled in few-flowered terminal cymes, 

 female solitary, subtended by a whorl of leaves which are longer 

 than the at length reflexed pedicel; berry whitish, becoming 

 dark-colored. 



On dry ridges in the upper portions of the chaparral belt and extending 

 into the pine belt of the San Gabriel, San Bernardino and Cuyamaca Moun- 

 tains. 



