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OLEACEAE 



Fraxinus oregana Nutt. Sylva, 3: 59.//. 99. 1842-53. 



No. 7956, collected June 3, along the Sacramento near Mid- 

 dle Creek Station, Shasta county. A small tree with leaves 

 densely tomentose beneath. The oris^inal spelling \s Oregona. 



GENTIANACEAE 



Frasera nttida Benth. PI. Hartw. 322. 1849. 



No. 7879, collected May 27, in thickets a short distance 

 above Redding, Shasta county. It may be found here and there 

 in rich shaded places along the upper Sacramento north of Red- 

 ding. The type was collected "in montibus Sacramento." 



APOCYNACEAE 



Apocynum OBi^ONGUM Greene, Pittonia, 5: 65. 1902. 



No. 8109, collected July 14, near Grass Valley, Nevada 

 county, in moist places, the plants large, about four feet high 

 and much branched. This is more copiously flowered than the 

 type, and the sepals equal the tube of the corolla. It may be 

 doubted whether A. cannabinum^ a native of the x\tlantic side 

 of the continent, occurs on the Pacific coast. 



Apocyiiiiiii viaruiii 



Perennial, rather low, about 5 dm. high, moderately 

 branched, the lateral branches not exceeding the main stem, 

 glabrous throughout: leaves dull green, the larger ones ovate- 

 lanceolate, about 8 cm. long, 4 cm. wide, the smaller upper ones 

 about half that size, almost elliptical, all merely acutish, cuspi- 

 date, midvein pale and prominent; petioles 3 or 4 mm. long: 

 bractlets of the inflorescence membranous, linear-lanceolate, 2 or 

 3 mm. long, i mm. wide: the irregular cymes narrow and rather 

 strict: pedicels 5 mm. long or less, slender, almost filiform: calyx 

 campanulate, 2 mm. long, the lanceolate acute lobes over i mm. 

 long, scarious margined, equalling the tube of the corolla: flow- 



