319 



silky-strigose, more or less Ify; stipules 

 large, 1-2 cm long, ovate, entire; basal 

 Ivs num, often 2-3 dm long, slightly 

 hairy or glabrate, pinnate with 6-13 

 pairs of Ifts; Ifts obovate, cuneate, 1-4 

 cm long, coarsely toothed above the 

 middle; cauline Ivs smaller and with 

 fewer Ifts; fls about 15 mm broad, in 

 rather narrow cymes; pedicels slender; 

 bractlets oblong, about two-thirds as 

 long as the ovate ex-lobes; pet broadly 

 obcordate, about one-third longer than 

 the ex-lobes; sty filiform. 



Abrams, Fl LA 198. Ballona (Hasse). 

 Genus HETEROMELES J. Roemer. 



A sm evergreen tree or sometimes 

 shrubby, with simple coriaceous toothed 

 Ivs and terminal corymbose panicles of 

 sm w fls: ex turbinate, 5-parted, lobes 

 at length inflexed over the carpels and 

 becoming fleshy: pet rounded, concave: 

 sta 10; fil dilated at base and somewhat 

 connate: ova 2-3-celled, 4-6-ovuled; sty 

 2-3; fr a r ovoid berry-like pome; car- 

 pels free from the fleshy-like ex-tube 

 above the middle. 

 HETMROMELES ARBUTIFOZ.IA Roem. 



Orcutt, Am pi 1 :81. 



Usually 3-6 m hi, nascent parts to- 

 mentulose: Ivs narrowly oblong or ob- 

 long-lanceolate, 5-10 cm long, remotely 

 serrate or dentate, dark g and shining: 

 fr about 6 mm long. Christmas berry. 

 Toyon. 



Abrams, Fl LA 197. 



Brandegee, Zoe 1:111. Cat. 



Roem, Syn mon 3:105 (1847). 



Parsons, W Fls Cal 92. 



Brewer & Watson, bot Cal 1:188. 



Crataegus arbutifolius Ait f Hort Kew 

 ed 2, 3:202 (1811). 



Type locality: "California." 



Genus ALCHEMILLA Tournefort. 



Ours sm ann herbs with Ify sts and 

 minute g fls in the axils of the palmate- 

 ly lobed Ivs: ex-tube urceolate, its limb 

 4-parted with alt minute bractlets: pet 

 0: sta 1 or 2, minute: pistils 1 or 2, 

 slender; sty rising from near the base 

 of the ova; ovule 1, ascending: ak ovate, 

 compressed, enclosed in the persistent 

 ex. Lady's Mantle. 

 ALCHEMILLA ARVENSIS Scop. 



Slender simple or much branched 

 from base, 4-10 cm hi: floriferous and 

 hirsute thruout: Ivs 3-parted, seg 2-3- 

 cleft: cx-tuhe much contracted under 

 the 4-parted limb. Eu. 



Abrams, Fl LA 203. 



SD (Or 450): Ore: Id; Cruz: Quad. 



Parish Zoe 1:9, "evidently indigen- 

 ous." 



Alchemilla cuneifolia Nuttall, in T & 

 G Fl 1:432. 



Alchemilla occidentalis Nuttall, in T 

 & G Fl 1:432. 



Genus CERCOCARPUS H. B. K. 



Unarmed evergreen trees or shrubs 

 with simple stipulate Ivs and sm axy or 

 terminal solitary or somewhat fascicled 

 apetalous fls: ex salverform, the 5- 

 lobed limb decid: sta num, in 2 or 3 

 rows on the limb of ex: pistil 1; sty ter- 

 minal; ovule solitary, ascending: fr a 

 coriaceous terete villous ak, included in 



the elongated ex-tube; caudate with the 

 elongated plumose twisted sty: sd lin- 

 ear; endosperm 0. 

 CERCOCARPUS LEDIFOLIUS Nutt. 



"Mt Mahogany;" SBer mts. 



Shrub, or sm tree, com 6-15 hi: Ivs 

 narrowly lanceolate, with the margins 

 more or less revolute, thick-coriaaceous 

 and somewhat resinous, entire, more or 

 less tomentose, but com glabrous above, 

 %-!%' long, acute, narrowed at base to 

 a short petiole; midnerve prominent: fls 

 sessile, tomentose: ex-limb 2" long, deep- 

 ly toothed: tube becoming 3-5" long: 

 ak-tail at length 2-3' long. SBer mts; 

 Ore; Mountain Mahogany. 



Torrey & Gray, Fl 1:427. 



Hooker, Ic PI t 324. 



Nuttall, Sylva 2:28 t 51. 



Watson, bot King Exp 83. 



Brewer & Watson, bot Cal 1:174. 



Hall, U 85. 



Type locality: "Rocky mts, in alpine 

 situations on the summits of the hills 

 of Bear river of Timpanagos, near the 

 celebrated Beer Springs" (now Soda 

 Springs, Bingham Co, Idaho). 

 CEIROCARPUS BETULAEFOLIUS Nutt 



A shrub or sm tree, 2.5 m hi, with 

 rather thin flaky gray bark and spread- 

 ing or somewhat recurved branches; Ivs 

 thick, obovate, cuneate, entire below 

 the middle, serrate toothed above, some- 

 times faintly so, distinctly veined on 

 both surfaces, smooth above, pubescent 

 beneath; ex open campanulate, 6 mm 

 broad, the tube becoming 12-14 mm 

 long 1 in fr. somewhat contracted above; 

 ak coriaceous, the plumose sty about 7 

 cm long. SBar; SD mts (Cleveland, 

 Palmer) ! 



Nuttall, Hook Ic t 323. 



Greene, Cal ac b 2:396. 



Abrams, Fl LA 202. 



Hall, U 85. Mt Mahogany. 



Cruz; "trees often 18-25 ft high" 

 (Greene). 



Cercocarpus parifolius glaber. Watson, 

 bot Cal 1:175. 



Cercocarpus betuloides T & G, Fl 

 1:427. 



Genns SAXIFRAGA Linnaeus. 



St-less or short-stemmed herbs with 

 alt or mostly basal Ivs and corymbose, 

 paniculate or rarely solitary sm fls: ex 

 5-lobed or 5-parted, its tube free or 

 adnate to the base of the ova: pet 5, 

 equal, entire: sta 10, inserted with pet; 

 fil filiform: anth 2-celled: carpels 2 or 

 rarely 3, distinct or more or less united 

 into a 2-celled ova; sty distinct, persist- 

 ent, at length divergent: fr of 2 folli- 

 cles or a 2-lobed or 2-beaked cap, de- 

 hiscent down the beaks or the ventral 

 suture: sds smooth. 

 SAXIFRAGA CALIFORNICA Greene. 



"Per, fibrous-rooted and propagating 

 by sm oblong tubers produced at the 

 ends of filiform subterranean branches: 

 st scapiform, 6-18' hi, bearing a loose 

 cymose panicle of bracteolate and few- 

 fld racemes: Ivs oval, oblong or elliptic- 

 al, 1 or 2' long, on broad petioles half as 

 long, the margin from coarsely crenate 

 to somewhat repandly denticulate, or 

 almost entire, both surfaces more or 

 less pubescent and the margin ciliolate- 



