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93. C. cuneatus, Nutt. Similar to the last, but less tomentose; leaves cuneate- 
obovate or oblong, retuse above, on slender petioles; flowers in looser clusters. 
10. C. rigidus, Nutt. Erect, 5 ft. high, the branchlets tomentose; leaves 2 to 5 
lines long, cuneate-oblong or broadly obovate, few toothed above, very shortly petioled; 
flowers bright blue. 
OrpErR VITACEZ has but one representative; the well-known California wild grape, 
Vitis Californica, Benth., which is common on the woody banks of streams. 
Orver 19. SAPINDACEZ:. 
Trees or shrubs, mostly with compound or lobed leaves, with unsymmetrical or irregular - 
flowers; the order best characterized under its suborders. 
Under the order proper belongs 
1. ZSCULUS, L. BuckEYE. 
Leaves opposite, palmately 4-7-foliolate. Calyx tubular, unequally 5-toothed. Petals 
4 or 5, unequal, with claws. Stamens 5 to 7, exserted and often unequal. Ovary 
3-celled; style long. Fruit a large leathery 3-valved pod. 
1. 4. Californica, Nutt. Leaflets, usually 5, smooth, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
obtuse at base, slenderly petiolulate, serrulate, 3 to 5 inches long; flowers in a close 
finely pubescent thyrse which is 6 to 12 inches long; calyx 2-lobed, the lobes scarcely 
toothed; petals white or pale rose, half an inch long or more; stamens 5 to 7; anthers 
orange colored. Fruit pear-shaped, 14 to 2 inches long, containing, usually, one seed- 
SuB-oRDER. ACHERINEZA, 
Flowers polygamous or dioecious, regular, often apetalous. Ovary 2-lobed and 2-cellel, 
each 1-seeded cell producing a wing. Leaves opposite without stipules. 
2. ACER, Tourn. Map te. 
Leaves palmately lobed. Calyx colored. Petals, usually 5. Stamens 3 to 12 inserted 
with the petals on a lobed disk. Styles2. Fruit divaricately 2-winged. 
1. A. macrophyllum, Pursh. (LarRcE-LEAFED Mapiz.) A tree 2 or 8 feet in 
diameter; leaves 6 to 10 inches in diameter, deeply 3-5-cleft; flowers fragrant, yellow, 
in crowded pendulous racenies; fruit densely hairy; the smooth wings 1} inches long. 
2. <A. circinatum, Pursh. (Vise-Marve.) A shrub or small tree; leaves 3 to 5 
inches broad, 7~9-lobed, lobes sharply serrate; flowers in corymbs loosely 10-20-flowered, 
on slender 2-leaved branchlets; sepals red or purple, exceeding the greenish petals; fruit 
emooth. 
