fhirrm. rORNACK/E. 



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ous, slender, silky, ?> to 4 lines lonj,' : involucre nearly as long, memhranaceous, soon 

 deciduous : petals narrow, acuminate : fruit oblong, 3 lines long. — But. !Mex. 

 Bound. 94, t. 7. 



Moist ravines and foot-liills, Placer County. Mature fruit has not l)ccn collected. The Amer- 

 ican representative of an Old World group of two species, C. mas and C. officinalis. 



* * * Flowers rvhite or creavi colored, ci/mose, not involnrnife : fruit tnhite, lead- 

 roloretl, or bine. 



4. C. Californica, C. A. Meyer. A slirub, G to 15 feet liigli, with smooth 

 purplish branches : leaves ovate, acute, mostly rounded or obtuse at ba.sc, 2 to 4 

 inches long, lighter colored antl more or less pubescent bcneatli with loose silky 

 hairs (not straight and appressed) : llowers in small dense round-topped cymes : 

 fruit small, 2 lines broad, subglobose, but little ileshy, slightly pubescent, blue(]): 

 stone broader than high, somewhat compressed, furrowed on the edges. — Mem. 

 Acad. Petr. v. 30, and Ann. Sci. Nat. 3 ser. iv. 72. C. cirdnatus (]), Cham, in 

 Linna?a, iii. 139. C. alha, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Becchey, 142. 



From Snn Francisco soutlnvard to San Diego County ; on stream-bunks. 



5. C. pubescens, Nutt. Kosombling the last and with a similar pubescence : 

 leaves oblong-elliptical or rarely ovate, acute or somewhat acuminate, shortly cune- 

 ate at base : flowers in a somewhat larger and more sjireading round-toppeil cyme : 

 fruit white, larger and more fleshy, becoming glabrous ; the stone similar, 2| lines 

 broad. — Sylva, iii. 34. C. serir.ea, var. (1) or.cideiitalu, 'J'orr. ^ f Jray, Fl. i. G52. 



Oregon aixl Washington Territory, and in the Sierra Nevada to tlic Yoscmitc Valley ; also in 

 the Cuiamnca Jits., San 13iego Co., Palmer. These two species have always been confounded, 

 but .seem to be separated by good characters. The Cornel of the Hocky jMountnins and Utflh, 

 which has been relerrcd to this species, is the eastern C. stolonifrra, which also extcnils westwanl 

 to the Columliia. It is at once distinguished by the straight npprcsscd hairs, attached by the 

 middle, and has not been found in California. 



G. C. glabrata, I5enth. A shrub, 5 to 12 feet high, gla1)rous or very nearly so ; 

 bark gray : leaves oblong to narrowly ovate, acute at each end or somewhat acumi- 

 nate above, an inch or two long, alike green on both siiles, on short slen<ler petioles : 

 Howere in numerous small open flat cymes ; ovaries silky : fruit white, globose ; 

 stone broader than high, 2 lines wide or more, scarcely compressed, not furrowed. — 

 Bot. Sulph. 18. 



Ill the Coant UniigcH fioiii biiko County to the HouUierii pint of Moiili'ii>y lalso on Iho CosuniiKm 

 Hivor, Jiatlnii, 



7. C. Torreyi, "Wntson. Shrubby : leaves oliovnto or oblanceolate, abruptly 

 acute or shortly acuminate, on rather long slender petioles, lighter colored and some- 

 what pubescent beneath with loose .silky hairs : cyme loose and spreading : fruit 

 white ; the stone obovoid, 2h to 3^ lines long, .somewhat compressed, acute at base, 

 ridged on the edges, tubercled at tiie summit. — Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 145. 



Collected by 7)r. 2Vrcy in Central California, hut the locality not noted. The charactei-a of 

 the fruit arc very peculiar. 



2. GARRYA, Dongl. 



Flowers dicecious, in axillary aments, solitary or in threes between the decussately 

 connate bracts, without ]ietals. Caly.x of sterile flowci-s 4-parted, with linear val- 

 vate segments : stamens 4, with distinct filaments : disk and ovary none. Fertile 

 flowers with the calyx-limb shortly 2-lobed or obsolete : disk and stamens none : 

 ovary 1-celled, with 2 pendent ovules: styles 2, sligmaiic on the inner side, per- 

 sistent. Berry ovoid, 1-2-seeded. Seed oblong, compressed : embryo minute, with 

 oblong cotyledons. — Kvorgreon shrubs, with 4-angled bmndilcts ; leaves opposil<^, 

 entire, coriaceous, the short petioles connate at ba.«!0 ; fruit blii(> or purple. 



