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GARRYACEiE. 



oblong, acute at each end, or acuminate at apex, to If in. long, 

 green on both faces, obscurely pubescent with short scattered 

 appressed hairs; petioles 3 lines long or less; flowers in many small 

 open cymes; ovary canescent; style thickened at apex, slightly 

 pubescent; drupe globose, white; stone little compressed and not 

 furrowed. 



Stream-beds: Mt. Diablo; borders of swamps near Searsville and 

 southward in the Coast .Ranges to Monterey. May. Annual 

 growth of the branches, in this and in the next, out a few in. or even 

 less than 1 in. in length; very short as compared with no. 2. 



4. C. Torreyi Wats. Slender shrub, 5 to 8 ft. high; bark brown 

 with numerous lenticles; foliage reddish, at least in the summer and 

 autumn; leaves oblong- or more frequently ovate-lanceolate, 1^ to 

 rather less than 2 in. long; pubescence as in the preceding; drupe 

 over 3 lines long, probably brownish or tan-color; stone globose or 

 scarcely at all compressed, tubercled at apex, distinctly pointed at 

 base. 



"Wooden Valley, Napa Co. (C. Greenei of Greene, Man. 159, in 

 part); northward into Lake Co. (abundant in Scott Valley, where it 

 forms thickets along the bases of low hills). 



74. GARRYACE>E. Silk-tassel Family. 



Shrubs or small trees with quadrangular branchlets. Leaves simple, 

 opposite, with short petioles. Flowers dioecious, apetalous, in axillary 

 pendulous aments, solitary or disposed in 3's between the decussately 

 connate bracts. Staminate flower: — calyx 4-parted into linear valvate 

 sepals; stamens 4; filaments distinct. Pistillate flower: — calyx with a 

 shortly 2-lobed or obsolete limb; ovary 1-celled, with 2 pendulous 

 ovules; styles 2, stigmatic on the inner side, persistent. Fruit a 

 berry; juice of the pulp staining rose-purple; epicarp at maturity 

 free from the pulpy portion and either circumscissile or as often 

 dehiscing irregularly. Seeds with thin testa and horny endosperm, 

 the minute embryo at one end. Apparently related in certain partic- 

 ulars to Cupulifera? and Piperacea?. 



1. GARRYA Dougl. 

 The only genus. (Named by Douglas, the indefatigable botanical 

 explorer of Pacific North America, in honor of Nicholas Garry, of the 

 Hudson Bay Co., to whom he was indebted for assistance in his 

 travels.) 



Leaves undulate-margined; fruit tomentose I. 6. elliptica. 



Leaves plane, often yellow-green; fruit at maturity glabrous 



2. G. Fremonti. 



1. G. elliptica Dougl. Silk-tassel Tree. Small tree. 8 to 10 

 ft. high or more, commonly a shrub about 5 ft. high; leaves elliptical 

 or narrower, the margin undulate and more or less revolute, gla- 

 brous above, tomentose beneath; aments solitary or clustered, the 

 sterile 4 to 10 in. long with truncate or acute silky bracts and the 



