Baccharis consanguinea D. C.
B. pilularis D. C. et B. glomeruliflora Hooker, seem to be identical. It is an exceedingly varying shrub; on sandy soil, low, creeping, with numerous fastigiate branchlets, the flowers mostly pistillate, and the heads less crowded; on clayey soil, especially on the banks of creeks, it is often fifteen feet high, quite tree-like, oblong in outline, the flowers mostly staminate, and the heads very much crowded. All forms are subject to excrescences, but especially those growing in a sandy soil. Evergreen.
Bahia Artemisiæfolia Less.
Ovate in outline, two to three feet high, evergreen; common on northern slopes, shores of the bay, and Oakland hills.
Artemisia filifolia Torr. Wormwood.
Large root-stocks with numerous slender branches, three to four feet high. Occupying almost invariably the southern slopes in common with Diplacus glutinosus. Both plants, on account of the leaden color of their leaves and branches, give the southern slopes that barren appearance, contrasting so strongly with the vegetation of the northern slopes.
Artemisia pachystachya D. C.
Sandy soil, three to four feet high. Peninsula of San Francisco.
Vaccinium ovatum Pursh. Evergreen Huckleberry.
A beautiful shrub, five to ten feet high, with slender upright branches; berries delicious. In light sandy soil, on the eastern slopes of Oakland hills.