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Kelloggla galioioks Torr. Slender perennial herb with opposite leaves and 

 interposed Btipules, flowers on loose forking cyme terminal on stem or few 

 branches, greenish yellow funnelform corolla 3 lines long, and densely uncinate- 

 hispid fruits. — Siena Nevada, common. 



2. SHERARDIA L. 



Slender annual with square stems and whorled exstipulate leaves. Flowers 

 small, blue or pinkish, in heads surrounded by a deeply divided involucre. 

 Calyx-limb of l to 6 teeth, which grow after flowering and crown the fruit. 

 Corolla funnelform, the limb I or 5-lobed. Stamens 4 or 5. Style filiform, 

 slightly 2-cleft. Fruit dry, didymous, separating into 2 indehiscent 1 -seeded 

 carpels. (Dr. Win. Sherard, a patron of Dillenius and friend of John Ray.) 



1. S. arvensis L. Field Madder, Three to 6 in. high, hispidulous- 

 roughened or nearly glabrous; leaves in whorls of 4 to 6, lanceolate to oblong, 

 pungent; flowers subsessile, 2 or 3 in a head; involucre in fruit 3 to 4 lines 

 long, its lobes 6 to 8, ovate or ovate-lanceolate. 



hay region, becoming widely naturalized in pasture lands near the coast: 

 San Mateo north to Olema. Often matting the ground closely. 



3. CEPHALANTHUS L. Button Bush. 

 Shrub or small tree with opposite or ternate leaves. Flowers densely aggre- 

 gated into spherical peduncled heads. Calyx-tube inversely pyramidal, the 

 limb 4-toothed. Corolla narrowly funnelform, slender, the small limb 4-cleft. 

 Style filiform, much exserted ; stigma capitate. Fruit dry and hard, obpyram- 

 iilal, at length splitting from the base upwards into 2 to 4 one-seeded achene- 

 like portions. (Greek kephale, a head, and anthos, a flower.) 



1. C. occidentalis L. BUTTON-WILLOW. Shrub or tree, 6 to 20 (or 30) 

 ft. high ; bark clay-gray, young branches reddish ; leaves elliptic- to oblong- 

 ovate, slightly attenuate, truncate or obtuse at base, entire, 214 to 3\i in. long, 

 on petioles 2 lines long, with short intervening stipules; peduncles 1 to 3 in. 

 long; heads % to 1 in. in diameter; calyx greenish; corolla white, 4 lines 

 long, the segments obtuse, tipped with black; fruit nearly 2 lines long; seed 

 1 line long, flattened, acutely margined. 



Common along interior streams, especially the San Joaquin and Sacramento 

 rivers; Sierra Nevada foothills. Fruiting heads and fruits recalling those 

 of the Sycamore. Aug.-Sept. 



CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Honeysuckle Family. 

 Erect or twining shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple or compound, without 

 Btipules or with false foliaceous appendages resembling stipules. Blowers com- 

 plete. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, the toothed limb commonly insignificant. 

 Corolla regular or irregular, 5-merous or rarely 4-merous. Stamens (in ours) 

 as many as the lobes of the tubular or rotate corolla and inserted on its tube 

 or base. Ovary 2 to 5-celled; style 1, elongated ot short or hardly any. bruit 



in ours a berry or berry like drupe. Seed coat adherent to the lleshy en- 

 dosperm : embryo small. 



Leaves pinnately compound; corolla rotate, regular; deciduous shrubs or small trees with 



compound inflorescence •• Sambi ci s. 



Leaves simple. 



. snow-white-: corolla open-campanulate or tubular funnelform, regular; deciduous 



shrubs 2. Symphoricarpos. 



Berry red 01 black; corolla tubular, commonly Irregular ? - Lonicera. 



