ous, slender, silky, 3 to 4 lines long : involucre nearly as long, membranaceous soon 



Bound "94 t? ""''''''' "^""^"^^^'^^ ^''''' "^^^ 3 lines lung. J^S Mex 



_ Moist ravines and foot-hills, Tlacer County. Mature fruit has not been eolleete.l Th^ An, . 

 lean representative of an Old World group of two species, C. maV^id S! JcS" ''' 



* * * Floioers ivhite or cream-colored, cymose, not involucrate : fruit white, lead- 

 colored, or blue. 



4. C. Californica, C. A. Meyer. A shrub, 6 to 15 feet high, with smooth 

 purplish branches : leaves ovate, acute, mostly rounded or obtuse at base 2 to 4 

 inches long, hghter colored and more or less pubescent beneath with loose silky 

 hau-s (not straight and appressed) : flowers in small dense round-topped cymes- 

 fruit small, 2 lines broad, subglobose, but little fleshy, slightly pubescent, blue(n- 

 stone broader than high, somewhat compressed, furrowed on the ed^es —Mem' 

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

 Linufea, 111. 139. C. alba, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey, 142. 



From San Francisco southward to San Diego County ; on stream-banks. 



5. C.pubescens, Xutt. Eesembhng the last and with a similar pubescence- 

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

 ate at base : flowers m a somewhat larger and more spreading round-topped "'cvme - 

 fruit white, larger and more fleshy, becoming glabrous ; the stone similar 9 flings 

 broad. — Sylva, iii. 34. C. sericea, var. (?) occidentalis, Torr. & Gray, Fl. 'i. 052. 



Oregon and Washington Territory, and in the Sierra Nevada to the Yosemite' Valley ; also in 

 the Cuiamaca Jits., San Diego Co., Palmer. These two species have always been confounded 

 but seem to be separated by good characters. The Cornel of the Kocky ^fountains and Utah,' 

 which has been relerred to this species, is the eastern C. stolonifera, which also extends westward 

 to the Columbia. It is at once distinguished by the straight appressed hairs, attached by the 

 middle, and has not been found in California. => ^r j 



6 C. glabrata, Benth. A shrub, 5 to 12 feet high, glabrous 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 sides, on short slender petiol.^s • 

 flowers 111 numerous small open flat cymes ; ovaries silky : fruit white, globose ; 

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

 Bot. Sulph. 18, 



In the Coast Ranges from Lake County to the soutliern part of Monterey ; also on the Cosumnes 

 Jtiver, Kaftan. 



7. C. Torreyi, Watson. Shrubby : leaves obovate or oblanccolate, abruptly 



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



wliat pubescent beneath with loose silky hairs : cyme loose and spreading : fruit 



Avhite ; the stone obovoid, 21 to U lines long, somewhat compressed, acute at base, 



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



Collected by Dr. Torraj in Central California, but the locality not noted. The characters of 

 the I nut are very peculiar. 



2. GARRYA, Dougl. 

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

 connate bracts, without petals. Calyx of sterile flowers 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, stigmatic on the inner side, per- 

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

 oblong cotyledons. — Evergreen shrubs, with 4-angled branchlets ; leaves opposite, 

 entire, coriaceous, the short petioles connate at base ; fruit blue or pur])le. 



