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ently or sometimes indistinctly 3- opp the pet; fil subulate, inserted at 



veined, entire, somewhat loosely hairy base of the disk or between its lobes: 



above when young, paler beneath and disk sometimes obsolete or 0; anth 2- 



glabrescent or with a few soft hairs; celled: ova 1, generally immersed in the 



petioles slender, somewhat villous, 6-8 disk, 2-6-celled; ovules 1-2 in each cell 



mm long; infl 6-16 cm long and 3-10 ascending, anatropous: fr a 1-6-celled, 



cm broad; fls bl, varying to w; fr 5-6 commonly 2-celled, berry: testa bony; 



mm in diam, somewhat lobed at apex, endosperm cartilaginous; embryo short. 

 nearly smooth and with low but broad, o*iin VTVTS iv.,-,...f.>^ 



deeply dorsal evanescent crests. lournefort. 



Abrams, Fl LA 242. L-vs OPP the tendrils or fl-clusters: 



Hooker & Arn, Bot Beechey 329 tendrils at least once-branched: ex-tube 



(1838-40). filled with the disk, which bears the sta 



Type locality: not given (type col- and P et: ovules 2 in each cell. 



lected by Douglas, probably in north- VITI3 CAJ.IPORNICA Bentham 

 ern California). California wild grape: Ivs roundish, 



CEANOTHUS MACKOCAEFUS Nuttall. tomentose, especially beneath, the to- 



Abrams, Fl LA 244. Monica; S Ana mentum in age flocculent, 2-5' broad 



mts. coarsely or minutely dentate, cordate at 



Nuttall, T & G, Fl 1:267. base with open or closed sinus, slightly 



Greene, Gal ac b 1:80. SBer Co. or not at all lobed, or frequently with a 



Shrub 8-12 hi, with naked, dark- sinuately 3-5-lobed If at the next node 



barked trunk, and well rounded, tree- above or below an unlobed one; fr p, 



liKe hd: branchlets rusty-pubescent, with a bloom, 3 or 4" in diam. 

 and bearing conspicuous, dark, warty, Type locality: "Rio Sacramento," Cal. 

 stipular glands: Ivs alt, coriaceous, ob- Bentham, Pi Hartw 302 (1848). 

 ovate-oblong, retuse, entire, minutely Vitex Californica Benth, bot Sulph 10 



tomentose-canescent beneath: fls in um- (1844). 



bellate clusters: fr very large. VIT.I53 GIRD I AN A Munson 

 CEANOTHUS SOREOIATUS H. & A. "Strong climbing vine with thick di- 



Shrubby or somewhat arborescent, aphragms; Ivs 15 ^m broad or less, 



2-4 mm hi, with olive or at length p'ish broadly cordate-ovate, with a rather 



twigs; Ivs oblong-ovate, rounded or deep and narrow sinus, obscurely 3- 



subcordate at base, glandular-dentate, lobed, and with many sm and acute 



1-2 cm long, glabrous and glossy or teeth, closely ashy tomentose beneath; 



sparingly pubescent above when young, fl-clusters large, very compound; berries 



glabrous or minutely pubescent be- sm ' black, slightly glaucous; sds pyri- 



neath, silky-pubescent on the principal i orm -. Occasional along streams in the 



veins and petioles; infl at first villous, foothills. June." Abrams, Fl LA 245. 

 2.5-5 cm long: fls deep bl; cap globose, ANACABDIACEAE 



wrmWed" SuStlv "robed" cr'LtlS's 8 *"* Shrubs or trees with a resi'nous and 



Abrams Fl LA 24S I "Gabriel mts " "Dually acrid juice, alt simple or com- 



SPINOSA Nutt P und exstipulate Ivs: fls sm, reg, most- 



o^mlih^arborescent, U^SKu^J^St^ as* .SlSS 



with at length cinnamon-brown, more "' twic? as rr?anv as n^f- frS 1 



or less divaricate, sparingly slender- Jelled 1-ovufSd stv sometimes 3 ' fr 



ish at base, coriaceous, glabrous or 



cm long, entire, petioles glabrous or Shrubs or sm trees with simple or 



appressed-pubescent, 4-8 mm long; pinnate decid or evergreen Ivs, and sm 



thyrsus 10-15 cm long, y 2 as broad; fls fls in axy and terminal panicles or 



pale bl; carpels depressed, 6 mm diam, sometimes in racemes or spikes: sep 



scarcely lobed, smooth, crestless. and pet usually 5: sta with subulate fll 



Abrams, Fl LA 242. Monica and inserted under the edge of a disk lin- 



Santa Ana mts. ing the base of the ex: fr a sm dry 



CEANOTHUS TOMENTOSUS Parry. drupe: sd pendulous upon a slender 



Shrub 2-4 m hi, with slender gray or funiculus rising from the base of the 



r'ish, at first tomentose and usually cell. Sumac. 



densely verrucose branches; Ivs round- BHT7S TRILOBATA Nuttall 



ovate or elliptic, conspicuously glandu- LOW branching decid aromatic shrub, 



lar-toothed, minutely velvety above, more or less pubescent when young; Ivs 



densely w or brownish tomentose be- 3-foliate; the terminal 1ft 2.5-5 cm long, 



neath, 1-3 cm long, short-petioled; infl 3-lobed and coarsely toothed above the 



loosely tomentose, 2.5-5 cm long; fls deep middle; the lateral pair 1-1.5 cm long, 



bl or rarely w; cap 4 mm in diam, round-ovate, scarcely lobed, crenate; fls 



^. m f% ha ji. depressed, smooth, slightly y'ish, appearing before the Ivs in short 



crested, distinctly lobed. Gabriel, SBer spike-liice clusters; drupes viscid-hirsute. 



an ?v, Cuyama ^ a T n } tS o.o Nuttall, in T & G Fl 1:219 (1838). 



Abrams. Fl LA 243. Hall, U 93. Squaw bush. 



VITACEAE. Abrams, Fl LA 240. 



Grape family. Climbing or erect tv , Ty ^ }<> cali ty: f ,"in the central chain of 



shrubs, with nodose joints, alt petioled tne Rock y mts - 



Ivs, and sm fls in panicles, racemes or RHUS DIVERSILOBA T. & G. 



cymes: ex entire or 4-5-toothed: pet 4-5, Poison oak: stems erect or climbing by 



.separate or coherent, valvate: sta 4-5, rootlets. 



