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CELA.STllACE.K. 



Branches rigid, spreading, often spinose; racemes simple. 



Leaves glandular-serrate: flowers blue 7, 8 



Leaves usually entire: branches grayish 9, 10, 11 



Leaves pinnately veined, obtuse: flowers blue (see No. 5) 12, 13, 14, 15 



§ 2. Leaves small, often opposite, very thick with numerous straight side veins, 

 spinosely toothed or entire: stipules mostly large and warty: flowera in sessile or shortly 

 pedunoled axillary clusters: fruit with 3 projections: branches rigid 16 to 2 J 



1. C. integerrimus, H. & A. Slender branches round: leaves thin. 



2. C. velutinus, Dougl. Stout:leave3 thick, resinous above. 



3. C. sanguineus, Pursh. Branches reddish: leaves thin; petioles slender. 



i. C. tliyrsiflorus, Esoh. Branches angled: leaves shining above, ashy beneath. 



5. C. dentatU3, T. & G. Leaves mostly 3-4 lines long, thin: thyrse globose. 



6. C. decumbens, Watson. Trailing, hirsute: leaves thin, teeth green-glandular. 



7. C. hirsutus, Nutt. Silky, rarely spiny: leaves rounded or cordate at base, acute. 



8. C. sorediatus, H. & A. Leaves smooth above: racemes pubescent, peduncles short, 



9. C. divarlcatus, Nutt. Branches sometimes green: racemes l-i inches long. 



10. C. incanus, T. & Gr. Leaves hoary beneath; racemes short; fruit warty. 



11. C. cordulatus, Eell. Pubescent, low, flat-topped: racemes an inch long or less. 



12. C. spinosus, Nutt. Often a tree: leaves entire, oblong, thick; petioles slender. 



13. 0. papillosus, T. &. G. Leaves narrow, dark green, shining and pimply above. 



14. C. floribundus, Hooker. Leaves 3-4 lines long, acute, undulate, denticulate. 



15. C. Veitchianus, Hooker. Glabrous, leaves thick, obovate-cuneate. Bare. 



16. C. crassifoXius, Torr. Branches hoary: leaves tomentose beneath. Cal. Coast. 



17. C. cuneatus, Nutt. Bark ashy gray: leaves cuneate-obovate, entire. Common. 



18. C. macrocarpus, Nutt. Tree-like, 8 to 12 ft. high: fruit very large. St. Barbara. 



19. C. rigidus, Nutt. Branohlets tomentose: leaves 2 to 5 lines long: flowers blue. 



20. C. prostratus, Benth. Prostrate: leaves spinose at apex only: flowers blue. 



VITACE.E. 



VITIS, Tournefort. 

 1. V. Califonuca, Benth. Leaves round-cordate, serrate. (Wild Grape.) 



SAPINDACEJ3. 



Flowers in large terminal erect thyrses: calyx tubular: clawed petals unequal I 



Flowers small, the fertile ones in drooping clusters: ovary 2-lobed: fruit 2- winged. 



Leaves palmately lobed. A 



