Amdanclder. ROSACE.E. ,oq 



a most imponetrable tln,.kets. The wood is ven ha r a r he "m Zl TT^^ '/'".T T^ 



§ 2. Zm...^;.-«««^... .^.y/.. c/.-.^,-„e<, villous at base: fruit berry-like, small, r,lobose or 

 turbinate: cymes compound. — Sorbus. 

 2 P. sambucifolia, Cham. & Schlecht. (Western :Mouxtain Ash ) A 

 shrub, 4 to 8 feet high nearly glabrous; the leaf-buds and inflorescence uually 



parngly villous : leaflets 4 to 6 pairs, obloug, acute, sharply serrate with 1^. 

 what preadmg teeth, an inch or two long : cymes rather flat : flowers white 4 or 5 

 lines broad : fruit red, globose, about 4 lines in diameter. - Linna^a, ii. 3G Gmv 

 Manual, 101. Morbus sambucifolia & Sitchensis, Ktemer, Syn. Mono" iii. 13<) 

 (^1^\ ^'"T ^T'^^ f^/'o-*^? *° ^^'^^^ f^*^* ''Altitude, on the Big Tree road a°.d Ehbett's Pass 

 S[tX\ "'^Tf^'^A?,^^*''"' ? ^^'' ^^Sher mountains eastward to Colorado, and throS 



British America to the Atlantic : also in Kamtschatka. The eastern P Ameri^na T^C \Tt 



rfXr"T"ft]''''Tr^'^ ^"' 'P'-'-^^^^g ^'^™t^"--' ^"-"<^^- fniit in moVe rouS'Vmes'ind 

 Ser. ^^" "'°'' '°"^'""" '^''^'' "^ cultivation is the European l^ JZpc^t 



26. CRA.T^GUS, Linn. Tiionx. 

 Calyx-tube pitcher-shaped ; the limb 5-parted. Petals 5, spreading. Stamens 5 

 to 20. Carpels 2 to 5, inferior, becoming bony 1-seeded nutlets, contiguous or 

 united : styles slender, distinct : ovules 2, ascending. Fruit drupe-hke, globo.se or 

 ovoid. — Shrubs dr small trees, mostly thorny; leaves simple, toothed or lobe.l ; 

 flowers corymbose, mostly white. 



A genus of 30 or more species, about half of which are North American an.l Mexican the rest 

 tr^S^ Tv \^r "^''T^'^ ^T^°"Sing to Europe and N. Asia. Manv of tli TpS;s are o • 

 veiy dithcult limitation, and the characters of the Californian species are still in some doubt. 



1. C. rivularis, Nutt. A shrub or smaU tree, 10 to 15 feet high, glabrous 

 througJiout or nearly so : spines short and stout : leaves ovate to oblong-ovate ob- 

 tuse or acute, cuneate at base into a short slender petiole, serrate more or less irreg- 

 ularly, but rarely at all lobed, 1 or 2 inches long: flowers 4 or 5 lines broad in 

 small corymbs : calyx-lobes short and obtuse, often purplish and slightly pubescent 

 on the margin: fruit nearly black, probably rather smaller than in the next.— Torr 

 & Gray, Fl. i. 464 ; Nutt. Sylva, ii. 9. 



Sierra and Plumas counties (Mrs. Ames. Lcmmon), and northward to the Columbia. 



2. C. Douglasii, Lindl. A shrub or sniaU tree, becoming 18 to 25 feet hi-'h 

 with stout spines an inch long or less : leaves broadly ovate, cuneate or somctiines 

 rounded at base, acute, usually somewhat lobed or incised above, ratlier finely ser- 

 rate, somewhat villous-pubescent on both sides, IJ to 3 inches long, shortly petioled: 

 flowers often numerous, 5 to 8 lines broad : calyx-lobes lanceolate, nearly as Ion- as 

 the tube, more or less pubescent: fruit dark purple, nearly half an inch in diameter 

 sweet and edible. — Bot. Reg. t. 1810. C. sanguinea,, var. Douglasii, Torr. Sc Grav, 

 J;l. 1-464; Nutt. Sylva, ii. G, t. 44. Anthomeles Douglasii, ilcemev, Syn. Monog. 

 111. 140. ^ > > J o 



On Pit River {Brewer), and northward to the British boundarv. P><)th these species are 

 apparently common through Oregon and Washington Territory, on stream-banks, ranging ejist- 

 wanl to Montana. The species of Colorado and Utah, which has been referred to C. rivularis, 

 is probably distinct. 



27. AMELANCHIEH, Medicus. Juxe-bkuuy. Seiivice-beuky. 

 Calyx-tube campanulate ; the limb 5-parted, persistent. Petals 5, oblong, ascend- 

 ing. Stamens 20, short. Carpels 3 to 5, inferior, becoming membranaceous and 



