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5. BOSSEKIA Necker. Thimble-berry. 

 A low, unarmed perennial, 1 to 2 feet high, with mostly 

 herbaceous stems arising from a woody base, and bearing a few 

 large 3- to 5-lobed leaves often 4 or 5 inches across; flowers white, 

 1 to 2 inches broad; calyx densely tomentose; sepals long-acumin- 

 ate; fruit large, red, pleasantly flavored. 



1. B. parviflora. 



6. OREOBATUS Rydb. 



Unarmed branching shrubs 3 feet high or less, with 3- to 

 5-lobed stipulate leaves, and brownish shreddy bark; hypanthium 

 flat, not bracteolate; sepals broadly ovate, with elongated tips, 

 accrescent; loosely enclosing the fruit; flowers white, conspicuous; 

 fruit fleshy or soon dry. 



Petals 1 to 1% inches long; leaves not lobed or 

 with mostly 5 shallow lobes, the teeth very 

 acute. 1. O. deliciosus. 



Petals less than % Inch long; leaves conspicu- 

 ously 3 -lobed, the teeth mostly obtuse. 2. O. rubicundus. 



7. DASIPHORA Raf. Shrubby Cinquefoil. 



Low branching shrub with pinnately 3- to 7-foliolate silky 

 leaves with scarious stipules; young branches silky villous, the older 

 stems brown, with shredded bark ; flowers bright yellow, axillary 

 and solitary or in small cymes; hypanthium saucer-shaped; bract- 

 lets, sepals and petals 5; petals nearly orbicular; stamens about 25; 



achenes densely villous. 



A single species of the timbered mountains. 1. D. fruticosa. 



8. FALLUGIA. Apache Plume. 



A much branched evergreen shrub 4 to 6 feet high, with slen- 

 der white young branches, and small, fascicled, cuneate-obovate, 

 pinnately divided, hispidulous leaves; divisions of the leaves nar- 

 rowly oblong, obtuse, revolute; flowers numerous, the stems of the 

 inflorescence somewhat corymbosely branched and the leaves re- 

 duced to bracts; hypanthium hemispheric, with several linear-lance- 

 olate bracts alternating with the ovate, abruptly long-acuminate 

 sepals; petals 5, broadly obovate to rotund, white; stamens numer- 

 ous; achenes numerous, obovate-fusiform, long-tailed. 



1. F. paridoxa. 



