298 Primulaceae 



hirsute, 7-10-celled ; fruit hirsute, minutely roughened ; nutlets all 

 separate or some united in pairs. 



Common in all our mountains in the upper chaparral belt. The common 

 form in the San Gabriel Mountains is usually more or less glandular and 

 must be referred to A. glandulosa Eastwood; but all gradations occur, so that 

 it does not seem possible to separate them. 



4. A. glauca Lindl. Shrubby, erect, 3-6 m. high, smooth 

 throughout; leaves glaucous, ovate, entire or denticulate; bracts 

 foliaceous, conspicuous ; pedicels stout, glandular-pubescent ; ovary 

 viscid-glandular, 6-8-celled; fruit dark red, very viscid; stone 

 with longitudinal ridges, sharply apiculate. 



Occasional in the San Gabriel Mountains. More common in the San 

 Antonio and San Bernardino Ranges. 



5. A. Pringlei Parry. An erect, branching shrub, 1.5-2 m. 

 high ; twigs and petioles hispid and glandular-pubescent ; leaves 

 ovate to obovate, mucronate, rough, with ciliate margins, on 

 petioles 4-8 mm. long ; infloresence in dense divaricate panicles ; 

 bracts linear-lanceolate ; pedicels slender, 10-15 mm. long, glan- 

 dular pubescent ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, densely glandular, ovary 

 glandular-hispid; nutlets consolidated into a rough carinate 

 stone, or separable. 



Occasional in the pine belt of the San Bernardino, San Jacinto and Cuya- 

 maca Mountains. 



** Leaves revolute, smooth above, tomentose beneath. 



6. A. bicolor (Nutt.) Gray. Shrub, 1-2 m. high ; leaves ovate 

 or oblong, 4-6 cm. long, margins entire, strongly revolute, gla- 

 brous above, white tomentose beneath, short-petiolate ; inflores- 

 cence in few-flowered compact racemes; bracts stout, pedicels 

 lanceolate; calyx-lobes and ovary tomentose; fruit globose, 6-8 

 mm. in diameter, dark brown, puberulent or smooth; nutlets 

 united into a round solid, nearly smooth stone. 



Frequent in the foothills of western San Diego County. Reported from 

 Catalina Island. 



Family 71. PRIMULACEAE. PRIMROSE FAMILY. 



Herbs with alternate opposite or basal leaves and per- 

 fect regular flowers in terminal or axillary racemes 

 spikes umbels or corymbs, or solitary in the axils. 



