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OLEACEiE. 



•">. A. cordifolia (Benth.). Stems 1$ to ">h ft. high; herbage 

 green and more or less purplish, perfectly glabrous; leaves mostly 

 opposite, rarely in 3's, ovate-lanceolate, with the lower round or 

 elliptic-ovate, the upper ovate to ovate-lanceolate with cordate- 

 clasping base, 2 to 4 in. long; umbels loosely many-flowered, mostly 

 in the axils of bracts at the naked summit of the stem, the filiform 

 pedicels equaling or shorter than the peduncles; corolla dark red- 

 purple, its lobes 3 or 4 lines long; hoods purplish, oblong, the summit 

 obliquely truncate dorsally and produced at the ventral margins into 

 an ascending cusp, the fissure down the front narrow; follicle gla- 

 brous. 2 to 3£ in. long, often long-attenuate. — (Gomphocarpus cordi- 

 folius Benth.) 



North Coast Ranges at middle altitudes (Vaca Mountains, Napa 

 Mountains, etc.); Sierra Nevada; Mt. Shasta. 



6. A. Californica Greene. Vegetative aspect of A. vestita, but 

 commonly stouter and lower; leaves opposite, ovate or broadly 

 oblong, 4 in. long, somewhat more or less, sharply acuminate: 

 umbels nearly sessile, rather few-flowered; corolla purplish; hoods 

 dark maroon, nearly orbicular, laterally compressed, centrally 

 attached and reaching nearly to the middle of the anthers, 2-cleft 

 half-way down the back and destitute of horn. — (Gomphocarpus 

 tomentosus Gray). 



"Hill north of Coal. Mine, Mt. Diablo/ - Brewer, May 20, 1862; 

 Southern California. Apr. -May. 



2. SOLANOA Greene. 



Perennial herb with strongly flattened stems and opposite Leaves. 

 Umbels small, terminal, globose, densely many-flowered, the pedun- 

 cles longer than the pedicels. Flowers purplish red outside, flesh- 

 color within. Hoods cleft dorsally from top to bottom. Horns 

 none. (The Indian chief, Solano, of the Suisunes.) 



1. S. purpurascens (Gray) Greene. Stems 2 or 3 from a stout 

 taproot, about 1 ft. long, prostrate, flexuous, purplish and purple 

 dotted, the herbage canescently-puberulent but green; leaves thick, 

 the lowermost elliptic-ovate, the upper broadly cordate-ovate, 1 to 2 

 in. long; umbels 2; flowers purplish red outside, flesh-color within, 

 about 2 lines long; follicles 2 in. long, about 5 lines in diameter at 

 the widest part. — (Gomphocarpus purpurascens and Schizonotus 

 purpurascens Gray.) 



North Coast Ranges: open summit of a mountain near the Geysers, 

 Sonoma Co., Towle, June, 1874; Snow Mountain, Lake Co., Brande- 

 gee; Pout's Springs, Colusa Co., Rattan, June, 1884; Soldiers' 

 Ridge, Yallo Bally Mountains, July, 1897, Jeps<m, growing on 

 the driest rocky slopes; the only known stations. 



83. OLEACE/E. Ash Family. 



Trees or shrubs with opposite and (in ours) pinnate leaves. Calyx 

 4-cleft or none. Corolla regular, 2 to 6-cleft or -petalou>. or none. 



