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* Berries without bloom; shrubs flowering in early spring. 



1. S. maritima, Greene. Arborescent, 10 — 25 ft. high, clustered, 

 and each of the several trunks often a foot in diameter; bark light brown, 

 more flaky than fissured; pith of shoots white: young twigs and foliage 

 pubescent with sparse stiff short somewhat retrorse hairs: young leaves 

 with free ligulate callous-tipped stipules 1 — 3 lines long: leaflets 2 — 5 

 pairs, often with conspicuous false stipellse, or the later leaves on 

 vigorous shoots completely bipinnate, the ordinary leaflets from oval to 

 oblong-lanceolate, abruptly acuminate, closely and rather deeply serrate, 

 thin: cymes rather small but fiat-topped: corolla white: fr. black, 

 without bloom. — Bare or local shrub of the bay shore at Shell Mound. 



2. S. callicarpa, Greene. Near the preceding, but not as large; 

 bark darker and fissured; cymes small, not flat-topped, rather low- 

 pyramidal: fr. scarlet. — -Common along mountain streams. 



* * Berries blue with a dense bloom; shrub flowering in summer. 



3. S. glanca, Nutt. Aborescent, often 30 ft. high, the solitary trunk 

 a foot thick, covered with a dark close very distinctly and rather finely 

 fissured bark: twigs long and slender; leaves exstipulate, coriaceous, 

 glabrous; leaflets 3 — 5 pairs, lanceolate, acuminate, sharply serrulate, 

 seldom or never divided: cymes large, flat: fl. white: fr. blue with a 

 dense bloom but black beneath it. — Common in rather dry and sparsely 

 wooded ravines or in open fields. 



2. SYMPHORICARPOS, Dillenius (Snowbebrt). Low branching 

 shrubs. Leaves small, membranaceous, mostly entire. Flowers small, 

 axillary and terminal, solitary or in dense spicate clusters, white or 

 pinkish. Calyx with globular or oblong tube and 4 — 5-toothed persist- 

 ent limb. Corolla short campanulate, slightly gibbous, 4— 5-lobed. 

 Stamens inserted on the throat of the corolla and as many as its lobes. 

 Ovary 4-celled; 2 cells containing a few sterile ovules, the other 2 each 

 with a single suspended ovule. Fruit globose, berry-like, containing 

 two seed-like smooth 1-seeded nutlets. 



1. 8. racemosus, Micbx. Usually 3 — 4 ft- high, slender, with spread- 

 ing branches: leaves round-oval to oblong, 1 in. long, glabrous above, 

 pubescent along the veins beneath: axillary clusters mostly few-flowered, 

 the lowest 1-flowered: corolla reddish or pinkish, 2 lines long, slightly 

 gibbous, moderately villous within, cleft above the middle: fr. %—% in. 

 thick, subglobose, snow-white. — On banks of streams in shady places 

 almost everywhere in the Coast Eange. Fl. May; fr. Oct. 



2. S. ciliatus, Nutt. (?). Low and diffuse, seldom 1 ft. high, with 

 many very slender but rather rigid leafy branches, and few-flowered 

 clusters: leaves oval, obtuse, %— % in. long, glabrous above, pubescent 

 along the veins beneath, the margin rather densely ciliate: corolla 



