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9. Tube of the corolla tubular-funnelform; leaves glabrous or slightly 

 scurfy, very rarely pubescent 9. L. andersonii. 



9. Tube of the corolla funnelform, often greatly expanded, 4 to 6 (8) 

 mm. long; leaves glabrous or minutely puberulent; corolla lobes 



4 or 5 10. L. BERLANDIERI. 



1. Lycium macrodon A. Gray, Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. Proc. 6: 



45. 1862. 



Maricopa, Pinal, western Pima, and Yuma Counties, up to 2,000 

 feet, February to May. Southern Arizona and Sonora. 



A large spiny shrub with shining mahogany-colored branches, 

 locally common in parts of Pinal County. 



2. Lycium cooperi A. Gray, Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. Proc. 7: 388. 



1868. 

 Mohave and Yuma Counties, up to 3,000 feet, March and April. 

 Southwestern Utah and Arizona to southeastern California. 



3. Lycium californicum Nutt. ex A. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 542. 1876. 



Lycium californicum var. arizonicum A. Gray, Syn. Fl. ed. 2, 

 2 1 : 437. 1886. 



Maricopa, Pinal, Cochise, Pima, and (doubtless) Yuma Counties, 

 saline soils, ordinarily at low altitudes but occasionally (in Cochise 

 County) up to 5,000 feet, February (and probably later). Southern 

 Arizona, California, Sonora, and Baja California, commonly littoral 

 outside of Arizona. 



Arizona's smallest species, ordinarily about 0.6 m. (2 feet) high. 

 Berry small, scarlet, of bony hardness except for the thin, succulent, 

 orange-red exocarp. 



4. Lycium pallidum Miers, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, 14: 



131. 1854. 



Almost throughout the State, 3,500 to 7,000 feet, April to June. 

 Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, southern California, and 

 Mexico. 



The Indians of northern Arizona ate the fresh berries, and, during 

 famines, ate a mixture of the dried berries and saline clay. 



5. Lycium parishii A. Gray, Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. Proc. 20: 305. 



1885. 



Lycium pringlei A. Gray, ibid. 



Maricopa, southern Pinal, western Pima, and Yuma Counties, up 

 to 1,500 feet, February to April (occasionally November). Southern 

 Arizona, southeastern California, and Sonora. 



6. Lycium exsertum A. Gray, Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. Proc. 20: 



305. 1885. 



Lycium jremontii var. bigelovii A. Gray, ibid. 6: 47. 1862. 



Graham (?), Maricopa, Pinal, Pima, and Yuma Counties, up to 

 4,000 feet, flowering throughout the year, mostly January and 

 February. Southern Arizona and northwestern Mexico. 



The fertile pistillate form with reduced abortive stamens formerly 

 passed as L. fremontii var. bigelovii. 



