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simple and leafy below, widely branch- 

 ing above: leaves lanceolate, deeply 

 sinuate-pinnatified: fls scattered, % in. 

 broad, yellow: calyx-lobes attenuate- 

 subulate, % in. long: capsule 1 in. long, 

 almost linear, hispid with short stiff 

 hairs which are strongly pustulate at 

 base: seeds short-cubical, the angles 

 grooved, the surface muriculate." 

 Greene, pitt 2:103. San Jacinto to near 

 Lathrop, Cal. 

 DATISCA GLOMERATA B. & H. 



Erect, 2-3 ft. high, branching: leaves 

 ovate to lanceolate in outline, acumin- 

 ate, 6 in. long, floral ones shorter and 

 more narrowly lanceolate: fls 4-7 in 

 each axil of the elongated leafy ra- 

 ceme, the fertile mostly perfect. 



Baja Cal. north to Tuolumne Co., Cal. 

 "The root is a bitter tonic known as 

 Durango root" (Mrs. Bingham). 



CrCURBITA CALIFORXICA Torrey. 



Thick, fleshy perennial root; annual 

 branches 3-5 ft long, spreading, hispid- 

 scbro-us; Ivs quinate-lobed, margins 

 more or less undulate, dull green, mot- 

 tied, with conspicuous branching veins, 

 petioles 1-2U in. long, blade about the 

 same length, tendrils divided to the base; 

 fls 2 in. long. Redlands, Cal. (Parish). 



Parry, Torr cl b 10:50, 2f of If and fr. 

 CORXUS XUTTALLII And. 



A showy shrub or tree 50-70 ft. high: 

 fl-s greenish in dense heads 6-9 lines 

 broad, followed by large clusters of 

 crimson berries, San Bernardino 

 (Wright) north to Fraser river. 

 CORXUS CALIFORXICA C. A. Meyer. 



Shrub 6-15 ft. high, smooth purplish 

 branches: leaves ovate, acute, mostly 

 rounded or obtuse at base, 2-4 in. long, 

 more or less pubescent with loose silky 

 hairs: fls in small dense round-topped 

 cymes, white or cream-colored. San 

 Diego Co. to San Francisco, Cal. 



GARRYA VEATCHII Kellogg. 



Kellogg, Cal ac pr 5:40 (1873). 



"Shrub 2-3 m high; Ivs elliptical, or the 

 smaller lanceolate, 2-5 cm long, the edges 

 revolute. glabrous above, and beneath 

 clothed with a close panose tomentum; 

 aments 3-4 in a cluster, declined, 2-4 cm 

 long; bracts scarious, connate nearly to 

 the strongly micronate tips, silky; im- 

 mature fruit densely white hairy, becom- 

 ing less densely hairy at maturity." 

 Parish, Zoe 5:73. Gabriel mts. Jac (Ha U 



AGROPYROX GLAUCUM R-S. 



"Culms from running rootstocks. 1-3 ft. 

 high, erect, rigid, smooth, with about 3 

 erect, rigid, narrow leaves, 4-6 in. long: 

 spike distichous, 4-6 in. long. 4-6 lines 

 wide, generally close or compact: spike- 



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lets 5-9-fl'd. smoothish or sometimes pu- 

 bescent: outer glumes slightly unequal, 

 narrowly lanceolate, acuminate or awn- 

 pointed, the lower 4-5 lines, and the upper 

 5-6 lines long, the lower 1-3-nerved and 

 the upper about five-nerved, the lateral 

 nerves mostly all on one side of the mid- 

 rib; fl'ng glumes 4-6 lines long, lanceolate, 

 obtusish. or acute, or awn-pointed, usu- 

 ally sparsely pubescent, 5-nerved, the 

 nerves indistinct below; palet about 

 equalling its glume, rather acute, slightly 

 Edentate, the keels hispid-ciliate, the 

 back sparsely softly pubescent. The 

 whole plant is usually glaucous. In rich 

 soil the spikelets are sometimes double at 

 the joints." Vasey. bot gaz 10:259. Mont, 

 to N. M.: Baja mts (Or 1162. 1164). Valu- 

 able for forage and hay. "Blue stem on 

 blue grass." 



AGROPYROX PARISHII Scribner & 

 Smith. 



"Culms 2 to 3V 2 feet high, with flat 

 leaves and erect or nodding spikes 6 to 12 

 inches long. Culms cylindrical, glabrous, 

 striate, or smooth and shining below; 

 nodes tumid, retrorsely pubescent; leaf 

 sheaths striate, pubescent below, and 

 sparingly ciliate along the margins, the 

 basal ones shorter, the upper longer than 

 the internodes; ligfule membranous, very 

 short; leaf blade constricted at the base, 

 smooth on the back, scabrous above and 

 on the margins, 2 to 3 lines wide, linear 

 attenuate to the acute apex, the lower 

 culm leaves 6 to 9 inches, and the upper- 

 most 1 to 2 inches. Spike of 8 to 12 com- 

 pressed oblanceolate spikelets. Spikelets 

 5- to 7-flowered, 8 to 10 lines long, shorter 

 than the internodes of the rachis, which 

 is scabrous on the margins; empty glumes 

 two-thirds as long as the spikelets, nearly 

 equal, linear, acute or acuminate, 5-nerv- 

 ed, scarious on the margins; flowering 

 glume lanceolate, acute, 4% to 5^ lines 

 long, flattened on the back below, promi- 

 nently 5-nerved above, and scabrous to- 

 ward the minutely 3-toothed awnless or 

 short-awned apex. Awn, when present 

 straight, slender, 3 to 4 lines long. In- 

 ternodes of the rachilla 1 line long, mi- 

 nutely pubescent. Palea as long as the 

 glume, acute or obtuse. Represented in 

 the Xational Herbarium by specimens 

 collected by S. B. Parish in Waterman's 

 Canon, San Bernardino Mountains Cali- 

 fornia, at an altitude of 3,000 feet, Xo.2 054 

 June 28, 18*8, and Xo. 2238, June 23, 1891. 

 This species apparently connects Agropy- 

 rpn with Brachypodium. The habit is 

 similar to that of A. Arizonicum. It is 

 the only American species with pubescent 

 culm nodes." Scribner & Smith, b 4, p 28, 

 D-A agr (6F 1897). 

 Variety LAEVE Scribner & Smith. 



"With the habit of the species, but the 

 culm nodes and leaf sheaths glabrous; 

 awns as long or longer than the flowering 

 glumes. Type in the Gray herbarium Xo 

 414, Dr. Edward Palmer, collected at 

 Fowley's Cuyamaca Mountains, in the 

 1S75." Scribner & Smith, C 4 p 28 D-A. 

 agr (6 F 1897). 



AGROPYROX TEXERUM Vasey. 

 "Culms in tufts or patches, without 



