132 BOTANY. 



high, not stoloniferous ; leaves 1^-4' long, rather lighter colored beneath ; 

 cymes 1^-2' in diameter ; petals white ; stigma small, capitate. Somewhat 

 variable in pubescence and more so in the size of the leaves. Without the 

 calyx-teeth, enlarged stigma, and woolly pubescence of C. sericea, and nearer 

 to stolonifera. Berries oily. Washington Territory to California. Rather 

 frequent through Nevada and Utah ; 5-7,000 feet altitude ; May-Septem- 

 ber. (473.) 



G-AEEYA^ ELLIPTICA, Lindl. 5-8° high, young branches pubescent; 

 leaves thick, broad-elliptic, 1-2' long, i-1' wide, mucronate, strongly undulate 

 on the margin, glabrous above, toraentose beneath ; aments nodding, exceed- 

 ing the leaves ; bracts broad-ovate, 3" long and wide, silky-pubescent; flowers 

 ternate ; pedicels of the male flowers exceeding or equaling the bracts, the 

 middle one often longer, the calyx-lobes oblong, Ih" long, pilose especially 

 at the coherent summits ; ovary very hoary-hispid, the styles long-linear, 

 glabrous, divergent, longer than the bracts. — Oregon; California; New 

 Mexico. Reported by Frdmont in Southern Nevada. 



CAPRIFOLIACE^. 



LiNNJEA BOEEALis, Gronov. From the Arctic Ocean to Pennsylvania, 

 Michigan, the Saskatchewan and Washington Territory ; Rocky Mountains 

 of Colorado, (Hall & Harbour.) Found in the Uinta Mountains, Utah ; 8,000 

 feet altitude ; July. (474.) 



Symphoricaepus montanus, HBK. Nov. Gen. 8^ Spec, 3. 425, t. 296. 

 Leaves orbicular, ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; flowers axillary, solitary ; bracts 

 much shorter than the ovary ; teeth of the cup-shaped calyx obtuse, glabrous 

 or ciliate ; corolla funnelform, nearly glabrous within ; stamens and style 

 included; fruit globular or oblong, white. — A straggling shrub, 2-3° high; 

 leaves^ very variable, soft-pubescent and ciliate, or wholly glabrous and often 



'6AEEYA, DouGL. Flowers dioecious, solitary or in threes between the decussately connate 

 hraots of the aments. Sterile flowers :— Calyx 4-parted ; segments linear, spreading, valvate, sometimes 

 coherent above. Petals none. Stamens 4, opposite to or alternate with the sepals ; filaments free ; an' 

 thers attached by the base, linear, dehiscence introrse or lateral. Disk and rudimentary ovary none. 

 Fertile flowers :— Calyx-tube ovoid ; lobes 2, opposite, very short or obsolete. Disk and rudimentary 

 stamens none. Ovary 1-oelled ; styles 2, filiform and erect, or short and recurved, stigmatose on the inner 

 side, persistent ; ovules 2, on long funiculi, pendent collaterally irom the top of the cell. Berry ovoid, 

 1-2-seeded. Seeds oblong, compressed ; testa membranous, transversely rugose ; albumen fleshy, abund- 

 ant; embryo cylindric, minute; cotyledons oblong; radicle terete.— Shrubs ; branchlets 4-angled; leaves 

 opposite, entire or denticulate, feather-veined, evergreen, on petioles connate at base ; aments slender, 

 axillary, solitary, silky, the staminate nodding ; flowers small, not iointed. Benth. & Hook. 



