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GARRYACEAE 
Flowers in* a flat-topped cluster, not involucrate. 
Leaves lighter colored beneath; drupe white.1. C. californica. 
Leaves all green ; drupe bluish or paie..2. C. glabrata. 
Flowers in a close head, surrounded by an involucre of 4 to 6 large white bracts; 
drupe scarlet .3. C. nuttallii. 
1. C. calif ornica C. A. Mey. Creek Dogwood. Shrub 1.5 to 4 m. 
high with smooth purplish branches; leaves ovate to elliptical, acute, 4.8 
to 9.6 cm. long; petals 4 mm. long.—Common on canon stream banks. 
2. C. glabrata Benth. Shrub 1.5 to 5 m. high, with nearly or quite 
glabrous twigs ; leaves ovate or oblong, usually acute at each end, 3 to 
4.8 cm. long; petals 3 to 4 mm. long.— Common along the bases of low 
hills, often forming thickets; also in stream beds or borders of swamps. 
3. C. nuttallii Aud. Mountain Dogwood. Small tree 8 to 12 m. high; 
leaves 7.2 to 14.4 cm. long; involucral bracts 3.6 to 7.2 cm. long; flower 
heads 1.2 to 2.4 cm. broad, borne on peduncles 2.4 to 3 cm. long.—Moun¬ 
tain woods. The inflorescence is remarkably beautiful. 
GARRYACEAE. SILK TASSEL FAMILY 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves simple, opposite. Flowers dioecious, 
apetalous, borne along a pendulous catkin-like axis in the axils of the 
decussately opposite connate bracts. Staminate flowers 3 in each axil; 
calyx 4-parted; stamens 4. Pistillate flower 1 in each axil; calyx limb 
reduced; ovary inferior, 1-celled; ovules 2; styles 2. Fruit a berry, the 
epicarp dry and brittle, sometimes dehiscing irregularly.—Species 4 or 
5, western North America. 
1. GARRYA Dougl. 
The only genus. (Nicholas Gary, Hudson Bay Co., friend of David 
Douglas, botanical explorer.) 
1. G. elliptica Dougl. Silk Tassel Bush. Shrub or small tree 
1.5 to 4 m. high; leaves elliptical, undulate-margined, glabrous above, 
tomentose beneath.—Seaward ranges, Monterey Co. n. 
2. G. fremontii Torr. Bear Brush. Shrub 1.6 to 3 m. high; leaves 
plane, oblong, varying to elliptic, glabrous and shining above, puberulent 
or tomentose, in age often glabrous, often 3 'ellow in age.—Chaparral 
slopes, inner ranges. 
ARALIACEAE. GINSENG FAMILY 
Very like Umbelliferae, but the stems solid, the styles usually more than 
2 and fruit berry-like.—Species 400, tropical and temperate regions. 
Erect plants; leaves compound.1. Aralia. 
Stems climbing by adventitious rootlets ; leaves simple.2. Hedera. 
1. ARALIA L. Spikenard 
Leaves compound. Flowers in simple or panicled umbels, white or 
greenish. Styles 5, united to the middle. Fruit black. (Derivation un¬ 
certain.) 
1. A. calif ornica Wats. Elk-clover. Herbs 1 to 2 m. high, the stems 
from a stout rootstock with milky juice; leaves ternate, each division 
pinnately 3 to 5-foliolate; leaflets ovate, varying to elliptic, 1.4 to 2.8 dm. 
