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"Gakrya* flavescens, Watson (Am. Naturalist, 7, 301). — Silky- 

 pubescent, with straight, appressed hairs ; leaves yellowish, elliptic-oblong, 

 acute at. each end, 1-2^' 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." 



CAPKIFOLIACE^. 



AdoxaI Moschatellina, 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. 



Sambucus glauca, Nutt. — "Willow Spring, Arizona (250) ; Utah. 



Sambucds 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, 1^-3' long, terminal one 



* Gakrya, Dougl. ex Lindl. Bot. Eeg. t. 1686.— Flowers dioecious; 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. 

 Female flowers, with the calyx-tute 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, 

 longitudinally stigmatose within ; ovules 2, hanging parallel from the apex of the cell ; funiculus elon- 

 gated. Berry ovoid, crowned by the persistent styles, 1-2-seeded. Seeds obloDg, compressed, testa, 

 membranaceous, transversly rugose. Albumen copious, fleshy ; embryo cylindrical, minute, cotyledons 

 oblong, radicle terete. — Shrubs, with 4-angled branches. Leaves opposite, petioled, entire or denticulate, 

 penninerved, evergreen, petioles connate at base. Flowers small, not articulated with the pedicel. — 

 Benth. & Hook. 



t Adoxa, Linn. Geu. 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 pairB, 

 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. 



