44 CORNACE^. 



racemose!} 7 - calyx adhering to the ovary, petals 5-10: stamens as many or twice as 

 many: ovary more than 2-celled. 



A tall herb: leaves bipinnate or pinnate, very large: pedicels jointed 1 



Stem woody, prickly, 6-12 feet high: leaves palmately lobed: pedicels not jointed. . . 2 



1. ARALIA, Linnaeus. 

 1. A. Californica, Watson. Root large, aromatic, used medicinally. (Spikenard.) 



2. FATSIA, Bentham & Hooker. 

 1. F. horrida, B. & H. Common in the forests of Oregon and northward. 



UMBELLIFER^E. 



Herbs with small flowers in umbels, stamens and petals 5, borne on a 2-celled ovary 

 which in fruit splits into a pair of dry, usually flat, indehiscent carpels. Since the 

 generic distinctions depend upon characters of fruit and seed difficult of determination, 

 the plants of this order are not here described. 



CORNACE^E. 



Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs, with simple entire mainly opposite leaves, no stipules, 

 and flowers in cymes, capitate clusters or spikes; the petals and stamens 4, epigynous; 

 calyx adnate to the 1-2 celled ovary, which becomes a drupe or berry. Key to genera 

 and species, p. 131. 



CORNUS. 



C. stolonifera, Michx. Stems numerous, clustered, decumbent, forming a low 

 thicket: twigs nearly glabrous, red- purple: leaves mostly oval or oblong, acute: cymes 

 small, flat-topped: fruit white, globose, stone furrowed on the edges. Trinity Mts., 

 C. C. Marshall. 



C. Baileyi, C. & E. Stone twice as long as high, flattened edge, furrowed. Castle 

 Rock, Columbia River. 



