304 GARRYACEAE. 



the summit to about the middle of the carpels. (Named for Hercules, who, it 

 is Baid, first used it in medicine.) 



1. H. lanatum Michx Cow Parsnip. Four or 5 ft. high; leaflets 3, peti- 

 olulate, ovate or orbicular, sharply serrate and lobod, 3 to <> in. broad; umbels 

 6 to 1<» in. broad; fruit 3*/> to 5 lines long. 



Common in brushy canons or on north slopes: Coast Ranges near the sea 

 and at middle altitudes in the Sierra Nevada. Reputed poisonous to cattle. 



GARRYACEAE. Silk Tassel Family. 



Shrubs or small trees with quadrangular branchlets. Leaves simple, opposite, 

 with short petioles. Flowers dioecious, apetalous, borne along a pendulous cat- 

 kin like axis, 1 (in case of the pistillate) or a cyme of 3 (in case of the stam- 

 Lnate) in the axil of each of the decussately connate bracts. Staminate flower: 

 — calyx 4-parted into linear valvate sepals; stamens 4; filaments distinct. Pis- 

 tillate flower: — calyx with a shortly 2-lobed or obsolete limb; ovary inferior, 

 1 -celled, with 2 pendulous ovules; styles 2, stigmatic on the inner side, per- 

 sist en t. Fruit a berry; epicarp at maturity dry and brittle, free from the 

 pulpy portion and dehiscing irregularly, or sometimes circumcissile. Seeds with 

 thin testa and horny endosperm, the minute embryo at one end. 



1. GARRY A Dougl. 

 The only genus. (Nicholas Garry, of the Hudson Bay Co., the friend of 

 David Douglas, the botanical explorer of Pacific North America, 1825-1832.) 



Leaves undulate-margined; fruit tomentose 1. G. elliptica. 



Leaves plane, often yellow-green; fruit at maturity glabrous 2. G. fremontii. 



1. G. elliptica Dougl. Silk Tassel Bush. Commonly a shrub 5 to 8, or 

 rarely a small tree up to 20 ft. high; leaves elliptical or narrower, the margin 

 undulate and more or less revolute, glabrous above, tomentose beneath; catkins 

 solitary or clustered, the staminate 4 to 10 in. long, with truncate or acute silky 

 bracts and the calyx-segments cohering at tip, the pistillate shorter, 2 to 4 in. 

 long, with acute or acuminate bracts; ovary sessile; fruit globose, 3 to 4 lines 

 in diameter, densely silky-tomentose like the ovary, in extreme age glabrate; seed 

 oval, 2 lines long. 



Common in the Coast Ranges, especially the seaward ranges, from Monterey 

 Co. northward. Feb. Foliage suggestive of Quercus agrifolia. 



2. G. fremontii Torr. Bear Brush. Shrub, 5 to 7 (or 10) ft. high; leaves 

 oblong, tapering to each end, varying to elliptical, glabrous and shining above, 

 gray-puberulent or white-tomentose beneath, in age often glabrous and yellow, 

 particularly on the under surface, not undulate, 1% (rarely 3) in. long, on 

 petioles 6 lines long; catkins solitary or in clusters of 2 to 6, with acute sonic 

 what silky bracts; staminate catkin 2 to 3 in. long; pistillate catkin about 1% 

 in. long, the ovary and young fruit very silky; fruiting catkin 1% to 3L_. in. 

 longj mature fruit glabrous, 3 lines long, short-pediceled; seeds subglobose or 

 oval, 1% lines long. 



High Coast Range ridges and slopes, mostly in the inner ranges and a mem- 

 bei of the Chaparral. Also in the Sierra Nevada. Feb. 



<i. hi xikh.ia Gray, of Red Mt., Mendocino Co., has leaves appressed-silky 

 beneath and bears ?ery Blender catkins. 



CORNACEAE. Dogwood Family. 



Deciduous trees or shrubs, or sonic species low and merely sun rutescent . 

 Leaves opposite, simple, entire. Flowers perfect, regular, in cymes or heads. 





