191 



192 



California. Credited to the Cuyamaca Jac (Chandler 1703). 

 mountain. 



Genus SAMBUCUS Tournefort. 



Shrubs or trees, with pinnately com- 

 pound leaves, serrate leaflets, small 

 usually white and 'odorous flowers in 

 broad cymes, and red or black berry- 

 like fruits. 

 J3AMBUCUS GLAUCA Nutt. 



The California elder is considered 

 superior to either the eastern or the 

 European species in the quality of its 

 fruit. Edward J. Wickson says: "It 

 is common throughout the state; and 

 frequently becomes a tree 20 feet or 

 more in height with a trunk 18 inches 

 in diameter. The fruit is very abund- 

 ant, and largely used." California 

 Fruits, Ed. 2, p. 65. 

 GARRYA PALLIDA Eastwood. 



Lvs ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute 

 and with a recurved mucro, entire, 

 sparsely silky-pubescent beneath, with 

 straight upwardly appressed pubes- 

 cence; racemes short; bracts about 3 

 mm long; ex-teeth close to the base of 

 the sty and concealed in the young fr 

 by dense hairs. 



Abrams, Fl LA 294. Santa Ana mts. 

 GARRYA FLAVESCENS S. Watson. 



"(Garrva ? Watson, King's Rep. 5; 

 421). Pubescence silky, appressed; Ivs 

 elliptic-oblong, 1-2 V% i long, acute at 

 each end, entire, glabrate above, mar- 

 gin revolute; petioles 3-6 li long; 

 .amerits pendulous; bracts 6-10 pairs, 

 broad-ovate, connate, foliaceous, acute 

 or the lower acuminate; sterile aments 

 1-2 i long, loose, the fls (1-3 together) 

 on pedicels equaling or exceeding the 

 bracts; fertile aments 1 i long, dense, 

 with solitary fls and densely pubescent 

 fr. Frequent from Southern Nev and 

 Ut to Ar and NM; growing 5-8 ft hi, 

 .and fl'ng in Mr." S. Watson, Am nat 

 7:301 (My 1873). 

 Variety PALMERI S. Watson. 



S Bar Baja! Cedros Is G. Veatchii. 

 POA HOWEfLLII Vasey and Soribner. 



Cruz; Oregon. 

 Variety CHANDLERI Davy. 



"Chandler's Meadow Grass. Stems 3.5- 

 5.5 cm high: Ivs smooth; sheaths some- 

 what inflated; ligule scarious, w, trun- 

 <iate, dentate, 2-4 mm long; blades flat, 

 acute, 3-3.5 cm long, 5 mm wide; panicle 

 but little exserted (at least in young 

 plants), 7-13 cm long; branches sparsely 

 scabrid, remote, the lowest in whorls of 

 3-5, the whorls 2.5-3.5 cm apart; lowest 

 branches very unequal, 1.5-7 cm long, 

 spjkelet-bearing only on the upper half: 

 spikelets 4.5-5 mm long, 2-fl'd; empty 

 glumes minutely puberulent and serrate, 

 broad, the lower 2 mm long, acute, 1- 

 nerved, upper about 3 mm long; fl'ng 

 glumes scabrid, 3 mm long, acute, spar- 

 ingly webbed at base with a long thin 

 *web; stamens 3, anthers 1.5 mm long." 

 Davy, Univ Cal pub bot 1:60. Siskiyou Co; 



Cereus sciurus* 



Katharine Brandegee, Zoe 5:192 

 (Ag. 19D5), describes this as follows: 

 "(Echinocereus) Densely cespitose 

 forming clumps sometimes 2 feet in 

 diameter, the numerous short, up- 

 right heads covered with slender 

 short spines, gray on the older parts, 

 light yelldtwish brown wiih darker? 

 tips on the young growth; ribs 12-17, 

 low and much disconnected, on the 

 growth of the year often entirely re- 

 solved into tubercles; ^areolae small 

 soon naked, 5-8 mm. apart on the 

 same rib; radial spines 15-18, cen- 

 trals 1-6, laterals longest rarely 

 reaching 15 mm. very slender, cen- 

 trals little stouter; flowers 7 cm. long, 

 about 9 cm. in expansion; ovary and 

 tube densely spinose; petals in 2-4 

 rows, bright magenta, paler towards 

 the base, the tips erose, acute, the 

 outer surface marked with numerous 

 striae; stamens numerous with green- 

 ish filaments and yellow anthers; 

 pistil green with obtuse stigmas; seeds 

 t&berculate about 1 mm. long. Col- 

 lected by T. S. Brandegee April, 1897, 

 on hills near San Jose del Cabo, Baja 

 California." 



Mam in ilia ria Iciita. 



Katharine Brandegee, Zoe 5:194 

 (Ag 1905), describes this as follows: 

 "Cespitose by dichotomous branch- 

 ing forming nearly flat-topped masses, 

 the body thick and fleshy, the divis- 

 ions 3-3 cm. in diameter and prob- 

 ably 3-2 cm. above ground: tubercles 

 slenderly conical, about 1 cm. long, 

 light geen; areolae not woolly; spines 

 all spreading and all alike excepting 

 that the later formed are yellow in 

 the center of young tubercles, they 

 are so soft and fragile as to be diffi- 

 cult to count, but appear to be 30-40 

 in number: axils with short persist- 

 ent wool and an occasional bristle; 

 flowers not seen, fruit clavate, red, 1 

 cm. long, few-seeded; seeds dull 

 black, more than 1 mm. long, tuber- 

 culate not punctate, strongly con- 

 stricted above the hilum, the upper 

 part globose. Collected by Dr. C. A. 

 Purpus on rocks near Viesca in Coa- 

 huila, January, 1904." 



