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3. CELTIS. Hackberry. 



Trees (sometimes shrubby) with light bark in rough ridges. 

 Inflorescence axillary. Flowers greenish; appearing with the 

 leaves. 



1. C. retlculata Torr. A bushy tree or shrub, usually 10 ft. 

 or less in height in the Great Basin; bark of trunk very rough. 

 Leaves thick and leathery, strongly netted-veined; lanceolate 

 or elliptical to ovate; acute, acuminate or sometimes obtuse; 

 entire or serrate above the middle; base decidedly oblique. 

 Fruit green, becoming orange-red. Limestone cliffs. May. 



ORDER SANTALAL.ES. 



SANTALACE^E, Sandal-wood Family. 



Partially parasitic perennial shrubs or herbs with 

 rather woody base and entire, alternate, almost or 

 altogether sessile leaves. Flowers dioecious or perfect 

 with 4-5-cleft calyx and no corolla; stamens equal in 

 number to the calyx-lobes and opposite them ; style 1 ; 

 ovary 1-celled, containing 2-4 ovules borne on a free- 

 central placenta. Fruit accessory. Seeds without a 

 true seed^coat. 



1. COMANDRA. False Toad-flax. 



Erect glaucous herbs, branching from a woody base. Leaves 

 elliptical to lanceolate. Inflorescence an umbel-like cyme. 

 Flowers perfect. Calyx bell -shaped, its tube adnate to the 

 ovary. Fruit a berry-like drupe, crowned by the persistent 

 calyx like a rose-hip. 



1. C. pallldn A. DC. Pale Comandra, Pale, with terminal 

 cymes of small greenish-white flowers. Fruit about the size 

 of a small pea. On dry exposed plains and hillsides. April- 

 July. 4,000-6,000 feet. 



ORDER POt.YGONAl.ES. 



POLYGONACE-ffi. Buckwheat Family. 



Annual or perennial herbs (sometimes more or less 

 woody at base), with entire and usually alternate and 

 stipulate leaves. The stipules (if present) form 

 sheaths (ocreae) above the swollen joints of the stem. 

 Inflorescence terminal or axillary. Flowers small, 

 regular, perfect (or sometimes monoecious, dioecious or 



