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WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 



689. Common Dogwood 



689a. 

 689b. 



690. 



691. Silk-Tassel Tree 



692. Bear Brush 

 693. 



Cornus pubescens var. 



Californica 

 Cornus glabrata 

 Cornus Torreyi 



Cornus sessilis 



Garrya elliptica 



Garrya Fremontii 

 Garrya buxifolia 



Flowers white or cream col- 

 ored, without involucre, 

 fruit white, lead-colored 

 or blue. Coast Ranges 

 and Sierras. 



Placer County. Rare. Flow- 

 ers yellowish, appearing 

 before the leaves. 



A small evergreen tree or 

 shrub, leaves smooth 

 above and woolly be- 

 neath. Branchlets 4-an- 

 gled. Flowers in catkins 

 like the poplar. Fruit 

 round and silky-woolly. 

 Coast Ranges. 



Fruit glabrous. Coast 



Ranges and Sierras. 



Slender catkins, a smaller 

 shrub, leaves silky be- 

 neath, fruit nearly sessile. 

 Mendocino county. 



HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY CAPRIFOLIACEAE 



Shrubs or twining vines, many of them well known in land out of cultivation, 

 as the elderberry, snowball, snow berry and honeysuckles. 



694. Elderberry 



Sambucus glauca 



695. 



696. Arrow-wood 



Sambucus racemosa and 

 var. 



Viburnum ellipticum 



Large shrub or sometimes 

 tree-like. Stems pithy 

 and easily broken ; large 

 odd-pinnate leaves. White 

 • clusters of flowers flat- 

 topped. Berries blue with 

 whitish bloom. Used for 

 pies and otherwise. Coast 

 Ranges, interior valley 

 and Sierras. 

 Clusters of flowers round- 

 topped, flowers dull- 

 white, berries scarlet or 

 black, no bloom. 

 Shrub, relative of the 

 Guelder Rose, snow ball 

 and cranberry tree. Sim- 

 ple, coarsely toothed 

 leaves. Dense cluster of 

 flowers. Fruit oval, black, 

 half an inch long. Woods, 

 Mendocino Count}-. 

 697. Twin-Flower Linnaea borealis and var. 



This delicate little trailing and rooting evergreen plant is found in moist woods 

 from the New England States across the continent; especially among evergreens. 

 The flowers are in pairs, rose-colored, and very fragrant, later forming a dry 

 berry. It is not common in the State, and much joy and pride comes over the 

 naturalist when discovering it. Northern counties and Sierras. 



SNOWBERRY SYMPHORICARPOS 



Low branching shrubs with the white or pinkish flowers in short spikes or 

 clusters, later forming globose berry-like fruits. Many of the berries are fleshy 

 and snow-white. Good browse. 



