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Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate....... 0... cee cece eee c cece ec ce uc eect ceases 3 
Flowers in drooping racemes: stamens 5, much exserted: leaves 3-foliolate, serrulate... 4 
1. ASCULUS, Linnzns, 
1. 4. Californicus, Nutt. Leaves palmately 4-7-foliolate. (Buckeye.) 
2. ACER, Tournefort. 
macrophyllum, Pursh. Yellowish flowers in dense racemes: fruit hairy. 
eircinatum, Pursh. Corymbs 10-20 flowered: sepals red or purplish. 
glabrum, Torr. Sepals and petals greenish yellow: filaments naked. 
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38. NEGUNDO, Mench. 
L oN. Californicum, T.&G. Calyx minute: petals none, diecious. (Box-Elder.) 
4. STAPHYLEA, Linnzus. 
2. 8. Bolanderi, Gr. Leaflets broad, stipellate: fruit bladdery. Shasta. 
ANACARDIACER. 
RHUS, Linneus. 
Slender deciduous shrubs: leaves 3-foliolate: fruit compressed globose. 
Flowers in dense axillary panicles: fruit smooth, dry, whitish...........-2...... 1 
Flowers in short scaly-bracted spikes: fruit hairy, gummy, scarlet............... 2 
Stout, diffuse evergreen shrubs: leaves simple, coriaceous: fruit ovoid, 
Flowers rose-color: leaves ovate on short petioles. ............. sees eceeeeeceeee 3 
Flowers yellowish: leaves lanceolate on slender petioles...............0.e0se000 4 
1. BR. diversiloba, T.&Gr. Stems erect or climbing by rootlets (Poison Oak), 
2. BR. aromatica, Ait. var. trilobata, Gr. Diffusely slender-branched. 
3. R. integrifolia, B.& H Leaves entire or spinosely-toothed: fruit red, frosty. 
4. BR. laurina, Nuit. Leaves glaucous, entire: panicles 2-4 inches long. 
LEGUMINOSE. 
§ 1. Stamens distinct: shrubs (except No. 1). 
Leaves palmately 3-foliolate: yellow flowers in terminal close racemes........ aicie'eieivels 1 
Stiff, much branched, evergreen: flowers red-purple, solitary, axillary.............+6. 2 
Leaves pinnate: flowers purple in dense axillary spikes: petal 1....-......2..seeeeees ] 
