NOTES ON GARRYA WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW 
SPECIES AND KEY. 
: ALICE EASTWOOD. 
ANYONE who has done field work in California among the 
brush-covered hills will appreciate the puzzling character of 
Garrya. Like Salix, it is dioecious and is rarely found in flower 
and fruit at the same time, so that in the different herbaria of the 
country the species are quite inadequately represented and the 
types very unsatisfactory. 
It is impossible with the present knowledge of the genus to 
attempt more than a provisional arrangement. The species bloom 
in the depth of the winter months, when few think of collecting 
plants; they fruit in August or September, when it is dangerous 
in many places to explore the dry hills on account of the scarcity 
of water and the density of the brush. In some years the fertile 
bushes bear no fruit and always seem few in comparison with the 
sterile ones, so that it is possible to pass through a region where 
these shrubs grow, at the right time of the year, without discov- 
ering a single plant in fruit. 
For some time I have been interested in the two species that 
grow on Mount Tamalpais, across the Golden Gate from San 
Francisco. They seem to represent the two groups into which the 
Californian species fall. Garrya elliptica has peculiar pubescence, 
consisting of curly hairs which form a more or less dense tomen- 
tum on the lower surface of the leaves and young fruit. The 
berries, when ripe, are not unpalatable. The seeds are sur- 
rounded with an acid pulp which is very slightly tinged with 
bitterness. Garrya rigida, the other species, has fruit so bitter 
that one taste will suffice for a lifetime. This is commonly known 
as ‘“‘quinine-bush.” The pubescence is sparse and consists of 
almost straight, silky hairs, regularly appressed upward. 
The genus may be divided into two great sections, the north- 
ern and the southern, the former characterized by non-branching 
aments; the latter with some or all of the aments branched, 
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