274 GARRYACEyE gaurya. 



acute and mucronate at apex, undulate on the margin, smooth above, 

 densely tomentose beneath, 2-5 inches long; sterile aments 3-15 inches 

 long, the bracts truncate or acute, silky; fertile aments stouter l}<£-4 

 inches long, with acute or acuminate bracts : fruit globose densely silky- 

 tomentose, sessile 3-5 lines in diameter. Along the coast of Oregon and 

 California. 



(*. buxifolia Gray Proc. Am. Acad, vii, 349. Small shrub 2-5 feet 

 high: leaves oblong-elliptical 12-18 lines long, 4-8 lines broad acute at 

 each end, glabrous above, densely white-silky beneath; petioles 1-3 lines 

 long, fertile aments 1-3 inches long, the short bracts acute, more or less 

 silky : fruit glabrous, globose, subsessile 2)£-3 lines in diameter. On dry 

 hillsides, southwestern Oregon to Mendocino county, California. 



