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JtTSSlAEA CAIiIFOKETCA Jepson. 



Per; sts stout, 3-12 dm long, float- 

 ing or nearly prostrate on mud; Ivs obo- 

 yate to obovate- oblong, or on the float- 

 ing sts sometimes lanceolate, obtuse of 

 acute, 2.5-6 cm long, on petioles 1-2.5 

 mm long; stipules gland-like or some- 

 what scale-like; fls 12-16 mm broad, 

 deep y; pet obtuse; fr 2.5 cm long, 

 spongy, iudehiscent; pedicel 1 cm long 

 or more. 



Abrams, Fl LA 263. In stagnant wa- 

 ter or muddy bottoms, in marshes to- 

 ward the coast. Cienega; Mesmer; Ala- 

 mitos, 



Jussiaea repens Californica Watson. 



Ludwigia diffusa Californica Greene. 

 Genus ZAUSCHNEHIA Presl. 



Liow per, with alt Ivs (the lowest 

 vp) and large scarlet fuchsia-like fls: 

 ->ve the ova colpred like the cor, 

 . ue funnelform \vich a globose base 

 viiectariferous within), and appeadaged 

 within at the most constricted portion 

 with several erect and defiexed scales: 

 pet scarlet, inserted on the throat of the 

 ex and rather shorter than its erect 

 lobes, obcordate or 2-cleft: sta 8, ex- 

 serted, colored like the cor; anth lin- 

 ear-oblong, attached by the middle: sty 

 long and exserted, stigma 4-lobed: cap- 

 sule linear, obtusely 4-angled, 4-valved 

 and imperfectly 4-celled: sds oblong, 

 with a tuft of ha.irs at the apex. In 

 memory of M. Zauchner, a Bohemian 

 botanist. 

 ZAUSCH'N'EKJA CALIFORN1CA Presl. 



Balsamea. Sts decurnbe.nt or erect, 

 about 1 hi, woody at base, the herbage 

 more or less villous or woolly; Ivs ob- 

 long to linear-lanceolate, ^i-l 1 /^' long, 

 the lowest opp; rl.s l 3 /^-- long; cx-looes 

 4" long. Dry stream-beds. Used as a 

 vulneary in rural medicine by Spanish- 

 Calif ornians. 



Presl, Rel Haenk 2:28 t 52. 



Davidson, PI LA Co G. 



Parry, bol. obs Wyo 13>. 



Bioch, Itirythsa 1:2&J, Baisamea, 

 Note on medicinal use. 



Coville, CNii 4:163. 



Brewer & Watson, bot Gal 1:218. 



Parsons, W Fls Cal 2-12 t. 



Zauschneria Mexicana Presl, Rel 

 Haenk 2:28. 

 Variety LATIFOLIA Hook. 



Sts herbaceous, 3-6 drn hi; herbage 

 somewhat can esc en t; Ivs ovate-lancro- 

 late, nearly smooth. 



Abrams, Fl LA 283. "Common in, the 

 coniferous belt, of the SBer wits," 



Hall, U a8. 



Hooker, bot mag t 4493. 



Greene; Pittoma 1:26, as Z. latifolia. 

 Variety ItfUKJiio^'laCTAj.l.A. A. Gray. 



Abrams, Fl LA 26&. "Frequent on 

 dry hillsides in the foothills, mostly be- 

 low 3000. 



Gray in herb, Brewer & Wa.tson f bot 

 Ca.1 1:218. "Pubescence tomentose, 

 scarcely or not at all villous: Ivs lin- 

 ear, often very sm (3-4" long), fasci- 

 cled in the axils. So Cal." 



Greene, Pittonia 1:27, as typical Z. 

 Californica. 

 2.^ iJCiOBIU JK VAXiySXt Trelease. 



Kaiher stout and intricately branched 



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even fi'om the base, 5-8 dm hi, 

 beiow, the infl and capsules very spar- 

 ingly, the young buds densely w-tomen^ 

 tose; Ivs 1-3' long, lanceolate, very ob- 

 tuse or th6 reduced uppermost acutish, 

 somewhat unequally or abruptly nar-* 

 rowed to slender more or less elongated 

 petioles, rather thin and glabrous; fi<3 

 at length num. rosd-colored ; fr ing peds 

 aboi.it 1' long; sds short-beaked, 2'' 

 broad. #" long. 



Toflos Santos bay; Baja; (Br)5 SEer 

 Co (Parish 2094, 20f,5). 



Tflea, 7 of. 1 :210. 



Abrams, Fl LA 2 fa'5. "Common -in 

 damp land ia the valleys and 

 stroa-jns below 4-000 ." 



Tr<2;^s or rlii'Mbs \v!th por^Jotent of 

 descid Ivs and sm g or y'U.u monoecious 

 fls, the Stamlnatd nun; in sleno<3r mo <t- 

 ly drooping antent.o. the pfstillata & > ; - 

 tciry in many-bracted inv: sta-mlrtate fla 

 subtended by caducous bracts, consisting" 

 of mostly a 6"-lobad campartulate per- 

 ianth and 5-12 sta with filiform fi a: 

 pistillate with an urn'shapetd or oblong: 

 3-cell6d ova; ovules 2 in each cell; sty 

 usually 3, short: fr (acorn) consisting 

 of the imbricated and more or loss 

 united bracts of th0 inv (cup.*, subtend- 

 ing or nearly enclosing the 1-seeued 

 coriaceous nut. Oak. 

 QtrE3?,3Trs CAZtXTOftNlOA Cooper. 



A middle-sized tree with large de-p- 

 ly toothed deciduous IVP: fr ^e.e'oplng: 

 tne - 2d yr; eupsf de^p, witlj thfn scales* 

 Ber; Jac; Cuyarnaca tots! 



Cooper, ST r 1858, 201 (1859). 



Type locality: "hillsides, Napfl val- 

 ley." Cal. 



Oov file, CMH 4:19(?. 



Hall, U 71. Blac-c or KsllcSg oak. 



Abrams, Fl LA !od. "Common In th 

 pine belt. 



Qnefc\m Kdllog-glf Ncwberry, Pac" Ry 

 R 6:28 t 0, 



Wat-on, bot Cal nr09. 



Quercus Sonomensis Bentham, A DC 

 Pro Or If. (2i:i>2. 



QiKVi-cus ruba, Sentfaonr, r -" H^rt-.v ':3'7, 



Quercus tinctoria var Cal'ifornica Tor- 

 rey. Pac Ry H 4:13'S (1S57). 

 QtfifiRCUS AGBXjPOSiiA Ne6. 



Large widely spreading tree; Ivs per- 

 sistent, oval to oblong, 4-7 cm long, 

 sinuatcly spinose-dentate, somewhat 

 stcllate--pub-scent f/hen youn/^, in ag~e 

 mostly convex above, paid and nearly 

 glabrous beneath; acorns an, st'^sile or" 

 nearly <?o; nut nrtrro\v and tapering, 2-3 

 cm long 1 , 6-S mm in dlam; cup turbin- 

 at(?, rathar de&y With lanceolate 4 slig r htiy 

 pubescent brov/n scnirs. 



Nee Ann Cleric Nat 3:271, 



Nuttall, Sylva, 1:S t -2. 



Watson, bot Cal 2:9& 



Abrams, Fl T,A 106. 



Belir, Zoe 1:34. 



Quercus oxyadenia 1 Torrey in Sitgr K 

 172 t 17. 

 QUETICUS CHRYSOLEPIS Liebm, 



Usually a large tree, with us .=?orr,e- 

 tirntis a low-spreading shrub scarce 2" 

 hi! TVS evergreen, oblong 1 , acute OT* cus- 

 pidate. obtuse or subcordata at '".a^e, 

 usually entire or EplriO3e-denticul'atcf, 



