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D. cuspidata (Greene). [Determined since the publication of Bay-Reg. Bot.] Erect, 

 slender, 6 inches high or more, with few and small leaves and few remote flowers: lower 

 lip of corolla nearly 6 lines broad, only 4 lines deep, the lobes broadly ovate, retuse, or 

 obcordate with a cusp, the terminal half violet, the base white; the undivided part of 

 the lip yellow, without folds, protuberances or depressions: lobes of the upper lip 1^ 

 lines long, cuspidate, straight, violet. Sonoma and Napa Go's. 



CAMPANULACEJE. 



Herbs with alternate leaves without stipules and regular flowers, having the calyx 

 adnate to the ovary, distinct stamens (5, rarely 4) inserted with the corolla, alternate 

 with its lobes: calyx persistent. Stamens with introrse anthers, opening in the bud. 

 Style single, its upper portion beset with hairs which collect the pollen, its summit 2-5- 

 lobed or cleft. Key to genera and species, p. 135. 



Specular ia is Triodanis, in Bay-Reg. Bot. 



GITHOPSIS. 



Gr. diffusa, Gray. Slender, diffusely branching, glabrous: calyx-lobes subulate- 

 lanceolate, half the length of the slender sessile pod. Vaca Mts. and southward. 



ERICACEAE. 







Woody plants or perennial herbs, with symmetrical and mostly regular flowers: the 

 stamens as many or twice as many as the petals or lobes of the corolla, and inserted with 

 but rarely upon it: the anthers 2-celled, and the cells opening by a terminal pore; the 

 ovary with as many cells as the divisions of the corolla or calyx: the seeds small. 

 Corolla generally gamopetalous, sometimes of distinct petals, the insertion and that of 

 the stamens hypogynous, or when the calyx is adnate epigynous around an annular 

 disk. Style single. Leaves simple. Key to genera and species, p. 136. 



ARCTOSTAPHYLOS. 



A. myrtifolia, Parry. Widely branching from the base, 1-3 feet high: leaves entire, 

 ovate, 4-10 lines long, 3-4 lines wide, acute at both ends with a thickened margin. 

 Growing in patches on gravelly ridges east of lone, Amador Co. 



A. manzanita, Parry. Varying in size from a small shrub to a tree, 25 feet high, 

 with a trunk a foot in diameter: leaves petiolate from narrowly to broadly ovate, 

 usually obtuse: pedicels smooth: calyx lobes orbicular: corolla broad: filaments slightly 

 hairy: fruit 4-6 lines broad, 3 lines high, changing from dull white to red-brown: early 



