W ATSON-- Plants of Bernalillo County 
eles 2 to 4 flowered; calyx lurid purple or greenish 
white; petals fan-shaped, white; berry, dark purple. 
The common gooseberry of the Quercus Gambelii Soc. 
of the Sandia Mountains. Ripe in July and August. 
R. Oxyacantuorss, L. 2 to 4 feet high; leaves us- 
ually deeply 5-lobed peduncles 2 or 3 flowered, calyx 
greenish-white or flesh colored; stamens and 2-cleft 
style scarcely longer than calyx; berry small, purple. 
At the Big Bend in Tijeras Canon. 
R. CerEeum, Dougl. Minuetely pubescent, usually 
resinous dotted and glutinous, leaves rounded or reni- 
form, obscurely or well 3-lobed, crenately toothed or 
incised; racemes drooping; pedicles hardly any or 
shorter than the bract; calyx wax-white, berry reddish, 
sweeetish. On the highest Voleano. May and June. 
44, CRASSULACEAE, Orprne Famity. 
Succulent or fleshy and mostly herbaceous plants. 
Sepum, L. (Stone-crop. 
Fleshy leaves, cymose and often secund flowers, 4 or 
5 sepals and petals, and twice as many stamens. 
S. Wrieutr:. Gray stems diffusely branching, leaves 
few, ovate, 1-3 to 1-4 in. long; flowers very short pedi- 
celled in a very compact, compound cyme; petals white, 
tinged with rose. Bear Canon. 
45. CAPPARIDEAE. Caper Famity. 
Herbs wit halternate leaves and perfect flowers much 
like Cruciferae but stamens more numerous, pod 1- 
celled with two parietal placentae and kidney-shaped 
seeds. 
Stamens 8 to 32...... Polanisia. 
CreomeE, L. “Bee Plant.” 
Sepals often united at base, pod with a stalk and ma- 
ny seeds. Erect, often tall, branching; flowers in brac- 
teate racemes; and pendant pods. 
©. Sonorar, Gray. Glabrous, leafleets 3 linear; 
flowers purplish; pod turgid somewhat longer than the 
stipe which is much shorter than the pedicel. Not 
uncommon. Very abundant along trails sume years 
(as 1907), scarce others (1908); probably depending 
upon the amount and distribution of the rainfall. 
Poranisia, Raf. 
Fetid annuals with glandular or clammy hairs; pe- 
tioled, mostly 3-foliate leaves with lanceolate leafletes ; 
rose-colored or white flowers in leafy-bracted racemes. 
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