Si/mphoricarpiis. CAPRIl'OLIACE.E. 270 



4. SYMPHOEICARPUS, Dill., .Tuss. SNownr.URY. 

 Ciilyx f)-toothecl, occasionally 4-tootho(l, persistent. Corolla nearly or wholly 

 regular, from open campanulate to salverforni, 5 - 4-lobo(l. Stiimcns as many 

 as the lobes of the corolla, inserted on its throat. Ovary 4-celle(l ; two of the cells 

 few-ovuled but sterile ; the two alternate cells each with a solitary suspended ovule, 

 which ripens into a seed: stylo slender: stigma capitate, entire or 2-4-lobcd. 

 Fruit globular nnd borry-liko, rijx'ning two little bony flood-Iiko nutlets, each filled 

 with a seed. — Low and branching shrubs, with scaly buds, oval or oblong leaves 

 (entire, or occasionally some of them sinuate-pinnatilid), nnd 2-bractcolato flowers in 

 axillary and terminal spikes or clusters, rarely solitary ; the corolla white or pink. 



— Gray in Jour. Linn. Soc. xiv. 9. 



A North American genus, of several species, at least one of them in the mountains of Mexico. 

 S. racemmus, the coTnmon Snowberry of cultivation, and all the California sixjcies have snow- 

 white fruit. 



§ L Corolla short-campanulate. 



1. S. racemosus, Michx. Shrub erect, 2-4 feet high, smooth, or the lower 

 face of the oblong or ovate-oval leaves pubescent : flowers in commonly terminal 

 short and loose interrupted spike-like racemes, which are often leafy at base, or some 

 solitary in upper axils : corolla very villous within at base of the lobes, which are 

 rather shorter than the tube : style and mostly stamens includeil. 



Hillsides, from San Diego Co. to Oregon, thence eastward to the Northern Atlantic Stutca. 



— The marked variety pmicifloncs, Kohbins in Gray Man., is not known from Califiirniu : 

 it approaches the following species. ,V. occiiirntnUs, U. I?r., if on the I'licilic side of the continent, 

 is only at the north : it may bo known by tlie deeper-idcft corolla with stronger l)card, exsertcd 

 stamens and style, and greater robustness. 



2. S. mollis, Nutt. Low, diffuse or decumbent, softly and usually densely 

 pubescent : leaves oval, small (half an inch or less than an inch long) : flowers few, 

 in terminal clusters or in upper axils : corolla short and broad, inconspicuously 

 bearded or pubescent inside : stamens equalling the corolla : style shorter. — Torr. 

 & Gray, FI. ii. 4, A less downy form is S. ciliatm, Nutt. 1. c. 



Woods, &c., common on the Coast Range, and not rare in the Sierra Nevada up to 5,000 feet. 



§ 2. Corolla from campannlate-obloixj to tubular : ,<<tamens included : style glabrous. 



3. S. rotundifolius, Gray. Low, soft-pubescent, sometimes minutely so : 

 leaves orbicular or oblong, thickish : corolla between oblong-campanulate and fun- 

 nelform, its tube only twice or thrice the length of the lobes and a little longer than 

 the style : nutlets of the fruit oval, turgid, very obtuse at both ends. — PI. "Wright. 

 ii. 66, & Jour. Linn. Soc. 1. c. 



Near Carson City, Nevada (Ande.rmii), and in Oregon {R'rUogg d- Harford) ; therefore, doubt- 

 less, williin the eastern boundary of tlio State ; thence to Utah and New Mexico. — Loaves 6 to 

 10 lines long. Corolla not over 4 lines long, broad from the base. 



4. S. oreophilus, Gray, 1. c. Low, glabrous, or in western forms commonly 

 ns pubescent as the foregoijig, and the leaves similar : corolla tubular-funnolform. its 

 tube 4 or 5 times longer than the lobes and twice the length of the style : nutlets 

 of the fruit oblong, tapering to a point at base. — S. montauus, Gray, in Am. Jour. 

 Sci. xxxiv. 249, not of HBK. 



Eastern part of the Sierra Nevada, from Mono Pass (PnJnndrr) to Sierra Valley {Tymmnn) ; 

 thenco east to the llocky Mountains in Colorado. Corolla fi or even (i lines long, nnd narrow ; 

 but in the ambiguous and more or less iiubescent form whiili nrevails on the Ixinlers of Califnmia, 

 only 4 or 5 lines long and rather broaclor. The nutlets of the fruit, when seen, mark a strong 

 dilference. 



5. LONoiFi.oRTTS, Cray, 1. c, from S. E. Nevmla and rt^h, lias a still longer corolla, with 

 oblong lobes and a bearded style, wbirli well distinguish it. 



