The Chief of the Sweet Odours, pale and long as a waxen torch, came up to Hamilcar to crush a roll of metopion in his hands, while two others rubbed his heels with leaves of baccharis.
"Salammbo"
Gustave Flaubert
Neither Crespi nor Anza nor Font gives any hint of the heavy infiltration of shrubby vegetation, such as baccharis, poison oak, or other chapparal species, which now extend down the entire slope of the hills from Crockett to Martinez.
"The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California"
S. F. Cook