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"Gakuya* flavescens, Watson (Am. Naturalist, 7, 30'.). — Silky- 

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

 acute at each end, l-2£' long, glabrate above, entire, revolute on the 

 margin; petioles 3-G" 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." 



CAPRIFOLIACE.E. 



Adoxa| 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. 



Sambucus 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, l£-3' long, terminal one 



* Garrva, Dougl. ex Lindl. Bot. Eeg. t. 1C86.— Flowers dioecious; anents between tbe united 

 bracts Male fltneers, with a 4-parted calyx, witb tbe spreading linear segments valvate, apices 

 sometimes cohering. Petals 0. Stamens 4, opposite or alternate to the sepals, filaments free ; anthers 

 fixed by tbe base, linear introrse or laterally debiscent. Disk and rudiments of tbe ovary obscure. 

 Female flowers, witb tbe calyx-tube ovoid; lobes of tbe limb 2, opposite, short or obsolete. Rudi- 

 ments of tbe 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 tbe persistent styles, 1-2-seeded. Seeds oblorg, 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, 

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

 Bexth. & Hook. 



t Adoxa, Linn. Gen. n. 501.— Leaves ternately divided. Calyx with two or three spreading teeth 

 or lobes. Corolla witb a very short tube, and 4 or 5 spreading divisions. Stamens 8 or 10, in pairs, 

 alternating witb the divisions of the corolla, and inserted on a little ring at its base. Styles 3-5, very 

 6hort, united ot the base. Ovary 3-5-cellcd, with one ovule in each cell. Fruit a berry. — BENTUAM, 

 Handbook of the British Flora. 



