1 i 2 CALYCANTHACEAE. 



1. T. polycarpum Wats. Glabrous, aromatic, 1% to 3 ft. high; leaflets 

 ovate to roundish, % to I in. long, rather prominently veined beneath, serrate 

 or incised or divided into 2 or 3 segments, the teeth acute or acutish; panicle 

 3 to G in. long, terminal or with accessory branches from the upper axils; 

 sepals elliptic to ovate, mostly acute; stamens 16 to 25, anthers yellowish; 

 pistils of about the same number, styles purplish; achenes somewhat inflated, 

 the sides marked with anastomosing veins. 



Coast Eanges, but apparently not in inner Coast Eange. Apr.-May. 



CALYCANTHACEAE. Sweet-shrub Family 



Aromatic shrubs with opposite entire leaves and no stipules. Flowers large, 

 solitary, terminating the branches. Bracts, sepals and petals passing into 

 each other, imbricated in many series, adnate at base to the enlarged hollow 

 receptacle which is like a rose-cup. Stamens numerous, the inner ones sterile. 

 Pistils many, distinct, nearly enclosed in the hollow receptacle, becoming 

 achenes. 



1. CALYCANTHUS L. 



Flowers livid red. Petals in several rows at mouth of tube, the inner ones 

 shorter. Styles equaling the anthers, filiform, colorless. Seed without endo- 

 sperm; cotyledons foliaceous, convulute, caulicle inferior. (Greek kalyx, cover- 

 ing or calyx, and anthos, flower.) 



1. C. occidentalis H. & A. Sweet Shrub. Erect branching shrub 5 to 9 

 ft. high; leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute, rounded at base, l 1 /^ to 6 in. 

 long; sepals and petals linear-spatulate, l 1 /^ in. long or less, the upper y, 2 or % 

 fading tawny or brown in age; filaments % line long; fruiting receptacle 

 cup-like, 1 to l 1 /^ in. long; achenes oblong-ovate, slightly oblique or curved, 

 a trifle flattened and bordered all around with a granular margin, somewhat 

 velvety-hirsute, 4 to 5 lines long. 



Along canon streams in the North Coast Eanges and Sierra Nevada. Called 

 "Spice-wood" on Howell Mt., "Wine Flower" in Sonoma Co., "Spice Bush" 

 in Napa Valley, "Wild Poppy" in Trinity Co., where it is reputed poisonous 

 to cattle, and ' ' Vinegar Bush ' ' in the Kaweah region. A crushed flower is 

 sometimes put in a knotted corner of the handkerchief by mountain people 

 as a perfume. 



BERBERIDACEAE. Barberry Family. 



Shrubs or herbs, ours with alternate compound leaves. Flowers perfect, 

 regular, hypogynous. Sepals 6, in 2 circles. Petals 6, in 2 circles, the sta- 

 mens as many and opposite them. Anthers opening by an uplifting valve or 

 lid. Ovary one, superior, 1-celled, becoming in fruit a capsule, a berry, or 

 dry and coriaceous. Seeds with endosperm. Achlys is anomalous; it has no 

 perianth and 9 to 13 stamens. 



Shrubs or low woody plants; leaves pinnate, prickly; petals bifid 1. Berberis. 



Perennial acaulescent herbs. 



Perianth none ; leaves 3-foliolate .2. Achlys. 



Perianth present; petals entire; leaves triternate 3. Yancouveria. 



1. BERBERIS L. Barberry. 

 Shrubs or low snli'rutcscent plants with yellow wood. Leaves alternate, 

 prickly, in ours pinnately compound with the rachis jointed at the insertion 

 of the leaflets. Flowers yellow, in racemes. Sepals petal-like. Petals concave, 

 in ours distinctly bifid. Filaments irritable. Stigma peltate-umbilicate. 

 fruit a berry. ( Arabic name.) 



