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gray and shreddy, ype young twigs | oegd poses puberulent. Leaves rather val t 
orbicular, obtuse at apex, entire, cilia the 1-4 cm. long, rather ee chart ge Abs 
above, often Teveninn glabrate, Pec Beneath and reticulate and more densely plore, foe pong 
along the veins, the leaves of the y young g ten sinuate; flowers in small clus on the 
upper part of the stems; calyx — “deltoid, ciliate; wacere pinkish or pink, smpan ndtv the 
tube somewhat swollen on t te , 3-5 mm. lor ng, the lobes 2-3 mm. long, sparsely hairy 
within ; stamens about -eawaling he ics: oles glabrous, about as long as the Be hes fruit 
white — 6 mm. in dia 
en woods a Sak sage Upper Sonoran and sition Zones; Oregon Caves National Monument, 
Josephine Pp cnralia Cetera, and from Newiaae ‘County, ‘California southward in ee Outer Coast Ranges to 
southern California; also in the San Bernardino and C a Mountains. Of m common occurrence from 
the San Francisco Bay region southward. Type locality: Gaue Bictece. California. "Collected by Nuttall. April- 
ortos hes mollis — wv (G. N. Jones) Abrams ex Ferris, Contr. Dudley Herb. 5: 99. 1958. 
Sian PhoricarPos esperius G. , Journ. Arnold Arb. 21: 220. 1940; Ss pauciforus of western authors, 
not Robbins. ret ae. trailing ny with twigs sparsely pilose to glabrate; leaves rather thin, oval, 1-3 c 
long, acute at pent Fe nds, margins ciliate, entire or sometimes toothed on young shoots, nearly glabrous aheve, 
pilose beneath, especially aise: ng the veins ‘A corolla 3-8 mm. long, the tube slightly gibbous, sparsely pilose w ithin, 
British Columbia southward mostly on the western slope of the Cascade Mountains to the mountains of Sisk iyou, 
Trinity, and Humboldt Counties, California. Type locality: upper valley of the Nisqually River, Pierce County, 
ashington. 
Sym i portly py mollis var. acitus A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. 1884, in part. (Symphoricarpos 
saiateay: Dieck, Hamb. Gart. Blumenzeit 44: 562. 1888; S. racemosus var. trilobus pd gel aed Es veahe nied. Phila. 
EL. 3: 39. 1655. sp diffuse shrub with arching or trailing branches often rooting at the , the twigs short 
spreading villous, mostly densely so; leaves mostly densely short-villous on both Fe Pomel pres to ava acute 
but varying to suborbicular, entire but prhauicaties sinuate-toothed or -lobed, especially on new growth, Southern 
Cease in bearer Someiyo9 and Lake Counties to acracent California through the Sierra Nevada to the Te- 
achapi Mounta n Count nty; also Nevada in the Lake Tahoe region aad in the Santa Lucia Mountains, 
Monterey Coonty. Cliente Type focality: Lassen ake Shate County, California. 
3. Symphoricarpos occidentalis Hook. Wolfberry or Northern Snowberry. 
Fig. 5039. 
Symphoria occidentalis R. Brown ex nae in Frankl. arto Bot. App. 733. 1823. (Nomen nudum) 
Symphoricarpos occidentalis Hook. . Bor. Amer. 1: 285. 
Symphoricarpos heyeri Dippel, gi Laubh. 1: 281. fig. Bes: li 
rect shrub 3-10 dm. high, often forming dense colonies; branches reddish, the twigs Pee 
stout, puberulent to glabrate. Leaves rather thick, oval or oblong, usually acute at apex, 4-6 c 
36. Linnaea 
5039. Symphoricarpos occidentalis 
