162 LORANTHE^. 



or dark green, covered with a short almost velvety pubescence: leaves % 

 1% in. long, from round-obovoid to spatulate-oblong, short -petiolate: 

 spikes opposite: berries white. Frequent in the interior valleys from 

 Sonoma and Solano counties southward. Very distinct from the eastern 

 yellow-green P. Jiavescens. 



2. P. Holloa nu HI (Seem.), Engelm. Branches 58 in. long: leaves 

 very thick, spatulate to linear, obtusish, nerveless, % 1 in. long: spikes 

 opposite or in fours, with connate ciliolate bracts: berries white. On 

 Mt. St. Helena, toward the northwestern base, Jepson. 



2. RAZOUMOFSKYA, Hoffm. Small, yellow or greenish, leafless; 

 leaves represented by connate scales. Flowers axillary and terminal, 

 solitary, or several in each axil. Staminate fl. mostly 3-parted, com- 

 pressed, or the terminal ones globose: anthers sessile on the lobes, 

 orbicular, 1-celled, dehiscent by a circular aperture at base; pollen-grains 

 spinulose. Pistillate fl. ovate, compressed, 2-toothed, subsessile, the 

 pedicel in fruit elongated and recurved. Fruit elastically dehiscent at 

 the circumscissile base, forcibly ejecting the seed. Cotyledons rudiment- 

 ary, indicated by a notch in the axis of the embryo. 



1. R. Douglasii, (Engelm.), O. Ktze. Slender, greenish yellow, ^1 

 in. high, much branched, but not verticillately, the accessory branchlets 

 behind (not beside) the primary ones : spikes short, mostly 5-flowered : 

 staminate fl. less than a line wide, with round-ovate acutish lobes, 

 fr. 2% lines long. Var. abietiiia (Engelm.). Fertile plant larger (13 

 in. high), the sterile smaller, with spreading or even recurved branchlets : 

 fr. smaller (scarcely 2 lines long). Mt. St. Helena, on Pinus attenuata, 

 Jepson, the variety only. 



OBDEB LIV. CAPRIFOLIACE>. 



Shrubs often trailing or climbing. Leaves opposite, mostly exstipulate. 

 Flowers terminal and cymose or subspicate, or solitary or in pairs in the 

 leaf -axils, regular or irregular. Calyx-tube coherent with the ovary; 

 limb 5-toothed or obsolete. Corolla 4 5-lobed or -cleft; the lobes 

 imbricate in bud. Stamens distinct. Ovary 2 5-celled, or by abortion 

 1-celled after flowering. Fruit a berry or drupe. 



1. SAMBUCUS, Pliny (ELDEB). Shrubs or small trees, with stout 

 thick and very pithy shoots and branches, and pinnate foliage; leaflets 

 5 11, serrate; young shoots and foliage heavy-scented. Flowers small, 

 white or cream-color, very many, in compound cymes at the ends of 

 terminal and lateral shoots. Calyx with 5 minute teeth. Corolla rotate, 

 5-lobed. Stamens 5. Stigmas and ovary-cells 35. Fruits of the 

 nature of drupelets, though berry-like, each with 3 (rarely 4 or 5) separate 

 seed-like nutlets; each witb a single seed. 



