DOGWOOD FAMILY 



(Cornacece) 



Usually trees and shrubs with simple opposite leaves with- 

 out stipules. Floral parts in 4's, petals sometimes wanting. 

 Calyx adhering to the seed vessels. 



QUINIXE BUSH (Gdrrya elliptica, Dougl.). Flowers grayish- 

 green without petals, and of two sexes on separate plants, dis- 

 posed in axillary, drooping catkins either solitary or clustered. 

 Leaves evergreen, leathery, wavy-margined, white-woolly 

 beneath. A shrub 5 to 8 feet high (or rarely a small tree in 

 Oregon) blooming as early as February, in the hills from Cen- 

 tral California to Washington. 



The pendent catkins of the Quinine Bush are very noticeable 

 particularly the male catkins, which are from 2 to 6 inches 

 long. Each flower is enclosed in a funnel-shaped bract, and the 

 whole catkin resembles a swinging string of tiny bells. The 

 pistillate catkins become at maturity clusters of acid, bitterish 

 berries. The bark and leaves of Garrya possess a bitter prin- 

 ciple, and their use in fevers has suggested the common name 

 Quinine Bush. Garry, whom the botanical name commemo- 

 rates, was a patron of David Douglas, the famous collector. 

 139 



