CATALOGUE. 185 
“‘GARRYA* FLAVESCENS, Watson (Am. Naturalist, 7, 301).—Silky- 
pubescent, with straight, appressed hairs ; leaves yellowish, elliptic-oblong, 
acute at each end, 1-24’ long, glabrate above, entire, revolute on the 
margin; petioles 3-6’ long; aments pendulous, the bracts broad-ovate, 
connate, foliaceous, acute or the lower ones acuminate, 6-10 pairs; sterile 
aments rather loose, 1-2 inches long, the flowers 1-3, on pedicels equalling 
or exceeding the ample bracts; fertile aments crowded, 1’ long, with solitary 
flowers and densely pubescent fruit—From Southern Nevada and Utah to 
Arizona and New Mexico; growing 5-8° high.” 
CAPRIFOLIACE. 
Apoxat MoscuaTe.uina, L.—Leaves mostly radical, 2-3’ long, ternately 
bi- or triternate, segments again trifid; flower-stems as long as, or longer 
than, the radical leaves, with a pair of trifid leaves. Head of about five 
greenish flowers terminating the stem, the terminal flower with fewer lobes 
to the calyx and corolla, and also fewer stamens than the lateral flowers. 
Berry green.—In shaded mountain ravines in Colorado, at 11,000 feet 
altitude. | 
Sampucus eLauca, Nutt—Willow Spring, Arizona (250); Utah. 
Sampucus Mexicana, Presl.?—-Camp Lowell, Ariz. (near Tucson); 
a small, much branched tree, 10° high and 5’ in diameter; bark light brown ; 
young branches and petioles densely canescent; leaves on the under surface 
less so, nearly glabrous above ; leaflets usually 5, 13-3’ long, terminal one 
* GarryA, Dougl. ex Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1686.—Flowers diecious; aments between the united 
bracts Male flowers, with a 4-parted calyx, with the spreading linear segments valvate, apices 
sometimes cohering. Petals 0. Stamens 4, opposite or alternate to the sepals, filaments free ; anthers 
fixed by the base, linear introrse or laterally dehiscent. Disk and rudiments of the ovary obscure. 
emale flowers, with the calyx-tuke ovoid; lobes of the limb 2, opposite, short or obsolete. Rudi- 
ments of the stamens and disk 0. Ovary 1-celled; styles 2, filiform and erect, or short and recurved, 
longitadinally stigmatose within ; ovules 2, hanging parallel from the apex of the cell; funiculus elon- 
ta 
membranaceous, transversly rugose. Albumen copious, fleshy ; embryo cylindrical, minute, cotyledons 
oblong, radicle terete —Shrubs, with 4-angled branches. Leaves opposite, petioled, entire or denticulate, 
Ts 
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Apoxa, Linn. Gen. n. 501.—Leaves ternately divided. Calyx with two or three spreading teeth 
or lobes. Corolla with a very short tube, and 4 or 5 spreading divisions. Stamens 8 or 10, in pairs, 
alternating with the divisions of the corolla, and inserted on a little ring at its base. Styles 3-5, very 
short, united at the base. Ovary 3-5-celled, with one ovule in each cell. Fruit a berry —BENTHAM, 
Handbook of the British Flora. 
