276 CORNACE^E. Garry a. 



A genus of about a dozen species, peculiar to the region from California to Texas and southward, 

 with a single one in the West Indies. 



1. Gr. elliptica, Dougl. A stout shrub or small tree, usually only 5 to 8 feet 

 high : leaves elliptical. 1 ^ to 3 inches long, rounded or acute and mucronate at the 

 apex, mostly truncate or rounded at base, undulate on the margin, densely tomen- 

 tose beneath, smooth above : aments solitary or clustered ; the sterile 2 to 5 inches 

 long, with bracts truncate or acute, silky, as also the calyx-lobes ; fertile aments 

 stouter, 1 to 3 inches long, with acuminate or acute bracts : ovary densely silky- 

 tomentose, sessile: fruit globose, 4 lines in diameter. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1686; 

 Maout & Decne, Traite Bot. 256, figs. 



From Monterey northward to the Columbia near the coast ; dry soil and hillsides, flowering in 

 winter and early spring ; the staminate plant then very ornamental. 



2. Gr. Freniontii, Ton. Shrub, 5 to 10 feet high, becoming glabrous : leaves 

 ovate to oblong, not undulate, 1| to 2- inches long, acute at each end, on petioles 4 

 to 6 lines long : aments solitary, 2 or 3 inches long, with acute somewhat silky 

 bracts ; the fertile aments rather slender : ovaries nearly glabrous : fruit globose, 2 

 to 2| lines in diameter, shortly pedicellate. Pacif. E. Rep. iv. 136. 



From the Upper Sacramento to the Yosemite Valley and in the Coast Ranges to Mount Hamil- 

 ton, Brewer. Leaves lighter green and less pubescent than in the last. 



3. Gr. buxifolia, Gray. A small shrub, 2 to 5 feet high : leaves oblong-elliptical, 

 1 to 1 inches long, 4 to 8 lines broad, acute at each end, smooth above, densely 

 white appressed-silky beneath ; petioles 1 to 3 lines long : fertile aments an inch 

 long, the short bracts acute, more or less silky : fruit globose, glabrous, nearly ses- 

 sile, 2| to 3 lines in diameter. Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 349. 



Eed Mountains, Mendocino Co., Bolander, Kellogg. 



4. Gr. flavescens, Watson. A rather spreading shrub, 6 to 8 feet high, pubes- 

 cent with closely appressed silky hairs : leaves coriaceous, elliptic-ovate to -oblong, 

 acute at each end, scarcely mucronate, an inch or two long, flat, entire, at length 

 nearly glabrous above, on petioles 3 to 6 lines long : aments pendulous ; bracts 6 to 

 10 pairs, broad, connate, acute or the lower acuminate, silky ; sterile aments 1 or 2 

 inches long, loose, the pedicels (1 to -3 together) equalling or exceeding the bracts ; 

 fertile aments an inch long, dense, with solitary sessile flowers : fruit densely silky, 



ovate, 3 lines long. Am. Naturalist, vii. 301. G. 1, Watson, Bot. King 



Exp. 421. 



Var. Palmeri, Watson. Pubescence densely tomentose : leaves smooth above, 

 mucronate, on shorter petioles : fruit globose, 3 or 4 lines in diameter. 



Frequent from Southern Nevada and Utah into Arizona and New Mexico. The variety at Mil- 

 quatay, 60 miles from San Diego, on the Fort Yuma road, Paltiur. Blanche* and leaves yellow- 

 ish ; the pulp upon the seed stains a bright violet color. 



