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c. B. pinna'ta Lag. From less than a foot to about 2 ft. high. 

 Leaflets prominently spiny, the lowest pair near the base of the petiole. 

 Racemes both axillary and terminal. Hills of the Coast Moun- 

 tains. 



d. B. nervo'sa Pursh. MAHONIA, WATER HOLLY. Stem simple, 

 bearing a crown of large leaves at summit, mixed with many dry, 

 chaffy ', persistent bracts. Leaves 1-2 ft. long, leaflets 11-17, somewhat 

 palmately nerved. Racemes long. In deep woods from Monterey 

 northward. 



II. ACH'LYS, Oregon Sweet Clover and Deer's-foot, Sweet-in-death 



Flowers on a scape forming a spike, without sepals or petals. 

 Stamens 9, in 3 sets, with slender filaments and short anthers. 

 Pistil with a broad, sessile stigma and a simple ovary. Fruit 

 dry and indehiscent, kidney-shaped, thick and rounded on the 

 back, thin and .concave on the other side, with a fleshy ridge 

 down the center. Leaves large, of 3 leaflets, having the odor 

 of new-mown hay, or vanilla, when they become dry. 



A. triphyl'la DC. Leaves and flowering stems from a creeping 

 rootstock. Leaves with stalks a foot or more long and with the 

 leaflets broadly wedge-shaped, 3-5 in. long, palmately veined and 

 coarsely and irregularly wavy-margined. 



This is found in northern California and northward to British 

 Columbia. It grows in shady woods and is much prized on account 

 of the lasting and sweet perfume of the dried leaves. It blooms in 

 spring. 



LAURA'CE^. LAUREL FAMILY 



Aromatic trees or shrubs. Perianth of 6 petal-like divi- 

 sions. Stamens 9, in 3 rows, the inner with 3 glands at base 

 alternating with tongue-shaped staminodia. Anthers opening 

 as in Berber idacece. Ovary free, 1-celled, forming a fruit like 

 an olive. 



UMBELLULA'RIA, California Laurel or Bay 



Flowers perfect in umbels which before opening are in- 

 cluded in involucres that are soon deciduous. 



