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Style 3-cleft. Leaves ovate, pointed, often cordate at base. Fruit a 

 pear-shaped, salmon-color berry. This grows along the banks of 

 streams in shady woods of the Coast Mountains. Spring. 



b. D. Hook'eri Benth. & Hook. Perianth narrow at base, with 

 spreading segments. Stamens equaling or surpassing the perianth. 

 Leaves ovate, deeply cordate at base, rough to the touch. Fruit an 

 orange, obovate berry, somewhat pubescent. This grows in shady 

 woods, but not close to the water. Spring. 



c. D. trachyan'drum Benth. & Hook. This is Similar to the last, 

 with the stamens shorter than the perianth. Fruit smooth, with a 

 stout beak. This grows in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Spring. 



XV. CLINTO'NIA 



Stems very short from a rootstock. Leaves all from the 

 base, large, oblanceolate, sheathing, with many veins and the 

 veinlets transverse. Flowers solitary or on a scape-like 

 peduncle, in umbels or whorls. Perianth of 6 oblanceolate 

 divisions, soon falling to pieces. Stamens on the segments of 

 the perianth with thread-like filaments and versatile anthers. 

 Ovary sessile, 2-3-celled. Fruit a beautiful blue berry, smooth 

 and glossy. Seeds few to many. 



a. C. uniflo'ra Kunth. Covered more or less with woolly hairs. 

 Stem above groin, d scarcely any. Leaves 4-8 in. long, 1-2 in. 

 broad, narrowed at base. Peduncle shorter than the leaves, bearing 1, or 

 rarely 2, white floicers, erect, nearly an inch across. This beautiful and 

 delicate flower grows in the woods and is found from northern 

 California to British Columbia. It blooms in late spring or summer. 



b. C. Andrewsia'na Ton. Almost smooth. Stem 2-6 in. long, 

 bearing 5 or 6 large leaves nearly a foot long and 2-4 in. wide, bright 

 green and very luxuriant, forming a circular bunch around the tall 

 scape, which is a foot or two high. Flowers generally many, in umbels 

 or whorled fascicles, deep rose-color, pendent. Perianth broad at base, 

 ^-^ in. long. This is found in the redwood groves and is in bloom 

 in early summer. It is one of tlie most conspicuous plants, whether 

 in fruit or flower or with only its tropical-looking leaves. 



XVI. STREP'TOPUS, Twisted Stalk 



Stems from slender, creeping rootstocks, leafy, glaucous, 

 branching in pairs. Leaves alternate, sessile, lance-shaped, 

 veinlets transverse. Flowers usually solitary from the leaf 



