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CELASTRAGEAE. 



PACHISTIMA. 

 ( Family Celastraceae ) . 



Low shrubs: evergreen. Twigs 

 very slender, somewhat 4-sided, 

 the bark becoming corky-thick- 

 ened an.d transversely checked: 

 pith minute, rounded, brownish 

 and spongy. Buds solitary, ses- 

 sile, ovoid, appressed, very small, 

 with about 2 pairs of exposed 

 scales, the terminal somewhat 

 larger and with more visible 

 scales. Leaf-scars opposite, 

 minute, crescent-shaped, some- 

 what raised: bundle-trace i, in- 

 distinct: stipule-scars lacking. 

 Leaves small, subsessile, more or 

 less serrate toward the end. 



In the Canadian mountains 

 Pachistima is called the mountain- 

 lover. It is pictured photographi- 

 cally under this name in the Al- 

 pine Flora of the Canadian Rocky 



Mountains by Stewardson Brown and Mrs. Charles Schaffer. 



Leaves elliptical-oblong, revolute. (1). P. Canbyi. 



Leaves elliptical-oblanceolate, often flat. (2.). P. Myrsinites. 



