Oarrya. CORNACE^. 275 



ous, slender, silky, 3 to 4 lines long : involucre nearly as long, menibranaceous, soon 

 deciduous : petals narrow, acuminate : fruit oblong, 3 lines long. Bot. Mex. 

 Bound. 94, t. 7. 



Moist ravines and foot-hills, Placer County. Mature fruit has not been collected. The Amer- 

 ican representative of an Old World group of two species, C. mas and C. ojftcinalis. 



* * * Flowers white or cream-colored, cymose, not involucrate : fruit ichite, lead- 

 colored, or blue. 



4. C. Californica, C. A. Meyer. A shrub, 6 to 15 feet high, with smooth 

 purplish branches : leaves ovate, acute, mostly rounded or obtuse at base, 2 to 4 

 inches long, lighter colored and more or less pubescent beneath with loose silky 

 hairs (not straight and appressed) : flowers in small dense round-topped cymes : 

 fruit small, 2 lines broad, subglobose, but little fleshy, slightly pubescent, blue (?) : 

 stone broader than high, somewhat compressed, furrowed on the edges. Mem. 

 Acad. Petr. v. 30, and Ann. Sci. Nat. 3 ser. iv. 72. C. circinatus (?), Cham, in 

 Limuea, iii. 139. C. alba, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey, 142. 



From San Francisco southward to San Diego County ; on stream-banks. 



5. C. pubescens, Nutt. Resembling the last and with a similar pubescence : 

 leaves oblong-elliptical or rarely ovate, acute or somewhat acuminate, shortly cune- 

 ate at base : flowers in a somewhat larger and more spreading round-topped cyme : 

 fruit white, larger and more fleshy, becoming glabrous; the stone similar, 2| lines 

 broad. Sylva, iii. 34. C. sericea, var. (?) occidentalis, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 652. 



Oregon and Washington Territory, and in the Sierra Nevada to the Yosemite Valley ; also in 

 the Cuiamaca Mts., San Diego Co., Palmer. These two species have always been confounded, 

 but seem to be separated by good characters. The Cornel of the Kocky Mountains and Utah, 

 which has been referred to this species, is the eastern C. stolonifcra, which also extends westward 

 to the Columbia. It is at once distinguished by the straight appressed hairs, attached by the 

 middle, and has not been found in California. 



6. C. glabrata, Benth. A shrub, 5 to 1 2 feet high, glabrous or very nearly so ; 

 bark gray : leaves oblong to narrowly ovate, acute at each end or somewhat acumi- 

 nate above, an inch or two long, alike green on both sides, on short slender petioles : 

 flowers in numerous small open flat cymes ; ovaries silky : fruit white, globose ; 

 stone broader than high, 2 lines wide or more, scarcely compressed, not furrowed. 

 Bot. Sulph. 18. 



In the Coast Ranges from Lake County to the southern part of Monterey ; also on the Cosumnes 

 liiver, Rattan. 



1 . C. Torreyi, "\Vatson. Shrubby : leaves obovate or oblanceolate, abruptly 

 acute or shortly acuminate, on rather long slender petioles, lighter colored and some- 

 what pubescent beneath with loose silky hairs : cyme loose and spreading : fruit 

 white ; the stone obovoid, 2^ to 3| lines long, somewhat compressed, acute at base, 

 ridged on the edges, tubercled at the summit. Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 145. 



Collected by Dr. Torrcy in Central California, but the locality not noted. The characters of 

 the fruit are very peculiar. 



2. GARKYA, Dougl. 



Flowers dioecious, in axillary aments, solitary or in threes between the decussately 

 connate bracts, without petals. Calyx of sterile flowers 4-parted, with linear val- 

 vate segments : stamens 4, with distinct filaments : disk and ovary none. Fertile 

 flowers with the calyx-limb shortly 2-lobed or obsolete : disk and stamens none : 

 ovary 1-celled, with 2 pendent ovules : styles 2, stigmatic on the inner side, per- 

 sistent. Berry ovoid, 1 - 2-seeded. Seed oblong, compressed : embryo minute, with 

 oblong cotyledons. Evergreen shrubs, with 4-angled branchlets ; leaves opposite, 

 entire, coriaceous, the short petioles connate at base ; fruit blue or purple. 



