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CLEYEI.AIVDI 



Greene, Erythea 1:137, based on Cal- 

 air Cleveland!, Greene, Cal as b 2.153: 

 C. Parryi, Greene 1. c. 49, but not of A. 

 abnormal state, C. pluriseta, rGeene, 

 Gray. 'Probably will include, as an 

 Pitt 1:34." 



1'ERRARIA. A genus of the Iris fam- 

 ily, mostly natives of South Africa. 

 F. unchilata Linnaeus, Sp. Pi. ed. II. 

 1353 Cape of Good Mope. Intro- 

 duced in 1755 to European gardens; 

 curiously spotted evanescent blossoms, 

 of a greenish-brown, produced in 

 March and April, suggestive of some 

 orchid flower. 

 HOOKERA, ORCUTTII Greene. 



"Scape stout, 1 or more high; leaves 

 linear, flat or conduplicate, not terete; 

 pedicles 5-15 I 1-2' long; perianth-seg- 

 ments oblong-lanceolate, twice the length 

 of the short tube; free portion of the 

 filaments about 2" long, the linear anthers 

 nearly as long; staminodia wanting (?)." 

 -Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. ScL, ii. 138 

 CXov. 13, 1S86). 

 OXYRIA DIGYXA Camptd. 



A 1 . pine sorrel. Ha U 74. 

 ABCTOSTAFHYZ.OS MANZAZTlTA 

 Parry. 



Manzanita is a Spanish name, tie di- 

 minutive of manzana (apple), hence 

 means a "little apple." The name is 

 generally applied to all the spec:es of 

 Arctostaphylos, and a writer in Mee- 

 han's Monthly (3:85) uses the name Ar- 

 batus Menziesil. The manzanita one? 

 BO common on the mesas back of San 

 t)iego, is Arctostaphylos bicolor. The 

 shrub to which the name more especial- 

 ly belongs in California, and \vhic'.i 

 sometimes becomes a small tree, is il.at 

 named Arctostaphylos manzanita by 

 Dr. Charles Christopher Parry the 

 A. pungens of the earlier writers on 

 California botany. This manzanita is 

 common from Mexico to Oregon, 

 through the foothills and mountains, in 

 dry, rocky soil. The fruit is a dull red, 

 mealy, and pleasantly sub-acid, well- 

 named by the Mexicans the "little ap- 

 ple," though botanically a near rela- 

 tive Of the cranberry instead of thfc 

 apple. The Indians gather the frut in 

 September in great quantities for food, 

 and it is eaten freely by animals end 

 birds. It makes excellent jell:/, ?nd 

 the finest flavored vinegar, as clear us 

 water, may be prepared from the fruit. 

 The numerous other varieties of man- 

 zanitp.s all produce more or less simi- 

 lar pdible fruit, and are all moa'ly 

 small, straggly evergreen shrubs, 



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graceful in their own peculiar way, and 

 bearing in earliest spring time a pro- 

 fusion of lovely white blossoms, some- 

 times blushing a rosy red in a snow- 

 storm. 

 QUERCUS ENGEL.MANNI Greene. 



The Englemann, or Post oak, is a 

 small spreading tree, 40 feet high, With 

 a trunk usually under 3 feet in dia- 

 meter. Not rare near Pala, Fall- 

 brook, the Potrero, and into Lower Cal- 

 ifornia, 20 miles or so from the sea. 

 EPHEDRA CALJFORNICA S. Watson. 



"Canatiila", Mountain tea, and iepo- 

 pote. 



(fide ttavard), are names applied to 

 several of the genus Ephedra. "They 

 are popular remedies among Mexicans 

 and frontiersmen in the treatment of 

 syphilis and gonorrhoea, especially the 

 latter. The decoction or infusion of 

 the stems has an acid reaction and an 

 astringent taste resembling that of 

 tannin. It is used as an injection and 

 internally; some caution should be ob- 

 served as it has been known to cause 

 strangury." (DF. V. Kavard. vide 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 504.) The 

 specieS Dr. Havard refers to are E. 

 antisyphiiitica C. A. Meyer and E. 

 trifurea Torrey, but the Same remarks 

 seem to apply equally well to our Cal- 

 ifornian species. It is often usei as a 

 substitute for tea, and is scarcely dis- 

 tinguishable in taste, except for an 

 aiier-flavor, not unpleasant, reminding 

 one slightly of catnip tea. It is in 

 great renown as a blood purifier and 

 many have volunteered to me their 

 opinion that it was "better than sar- 

 saparilla" and without an equal. I have 

 never heard of unpleasant effects fol- 

 lowing its use. It is a valuable seda- 

 tive. Experiments and analyses prove 

 it to be not Superior to E. antisyphiiit- 

 ica which already has a place among 

 American drugs. 

 FOUQUTERA GIGANTEA OrCutt. 



In February, ]899, the writer collect- 

 ed some small plants of the "curio ' 

 tree, near the gold mines at Calm-ill!, 

 Lower California; May 2, 1900, the last 

 two were planted in the ground in 

 ar. Diego, having been in a box during 

 the interim; the longest braiehle^s on 

 one of these was over a foot long and 

 bearing groen foliage when at Ir.st 

 planted in the ground. As there i? no 

 natural rainfall for two or throe '- 



