50 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VorumME 29 
puberulent and often somewhat glandular; calyx prominently lobed, rather short-ciliate; corolla 
ovoid-campanulate or urceolate, 7-9 mm. long, the lobes half-orbicular or ovate-orbicular; 
stametis 6-8 mm. long; capsules oval or obovoid-oval, 5-8 mm. long, minutely pubescent; seeds 
about 2-2.5 mm. long. 
TYPE Locality: Rocky Mountains, lat. 49°-56°, 
DistRrBuTion: Alberta and British Columbia to Wyoming and Idaho, and said to occur east- 
ward to Lake Superior. 
IuLustRations: Henshaw, Mountain Fl. Am. pl. 98; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 2753; ed. 2. f. 3225. 
3. Menziesia ferruginea Smith, Pl. Ic. Ined. pl. 56. 1791. 
Menziesia urceolaris Salisb. Parad. Lond. under pl. 44. 1806. 
A straggling or erect shrub 2.5 m. tall or less, with sparingly fine-pubescent twigs; leaf- 
blades oblong or elliptic to obovate, 3-6 cm. long, acute or obtuse and gland-tipped, glandular- 
ciliate, deep-green above, pale-green beneath, strigose on both sides, but usually more copiously 
so above, short-petioled, the petioles with long hairs; pedicels glandular-hirsute; calyx circular 
or obscurely lobed, long-ciliate; corolla oblong-ovoid, becoming cylindraceous, 9-13 mm. long, 
the lobes half-orbicular; stamens 7-8 mm. long, capsules ovoid, 6-8 mm. long, glabrous; seeds 
2-2.5 mm. long. 
‘TYPE LOCALITY: Western North America. 
DistripurTion: Alaska to British Columbia and Oregon. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Smith, Pl. Ic. Ined. 1. 56; Lam. Tab. Encyc. pl. 285; Brown & Schaffer, Alp. 
Pl. Can. pl. 61. 
14. PHYLLODOCE Salish. Parad. Lond. pl. 36. 1806. 
Low or depressed heath-like shrubs, with tufted or matted branches. Leaves alternate, 
crowded, persistent; blades narrow, usually linear, thick, revolute and usually serrulate- 
edged. Flowers in umbel-like or raceme-like clusters at the ends of the branchlets, usually 
spreading or nodding on erect pedicels. Calyx persistent; lobes 4-6, narrow, slightly united, 
often glandular. Corolla ovoid, urceolate, campanulate, or nearly rotate, white, yellow, or 
purple; lobes 4-6, very short or as long as the tube, imbricate. Stamens 8-12, included or 
exserted; filaments short or elongate, sometimes pubescent, scarcely if at all dilated; anthers 
oblong, sometimes narrowly so, opening at the top, unappendaged. Ovary 4-6-lobed, globular 
or depressed; style slender; stigma minute, but sometimes swollen. Capsule erect, oval, 
globose or spheroidal, 4—6-valved from the top. 
Type species, Phyllodoce taxtfolia Salisb. 
Corolla of an ovoid type, constricted at the throat, slightly lobed; calyx not 
glandular. 
Corolla purple to deep-pink. 1. P 
Corolla white to sulphur-yellow. 
Filaments glabrous; calyx-lobes linear to linear-lanceolate. 2. P. aleutica. 
Filaments pubescent; calyx-lobes lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate. 3. P. glandulifiora. 
Corolla campanulate or nearly rotate, deeply lobed; calyx glandular. 
Corol{a-lobes much shorter than the tube; filaments slightly longer than 
. caerulea, 
the anthers. 4, P. empeiriformis. 
Corolla-lobes about as long as the tube; filaments much longer than the 
anthers. 5. P. Breweri. 
1. Phyllodoce caerulea (L.) Bab. Man. 194. 1843. 
Andromeda caerulea I. Sp. Pl. 393. 1753. 
Andromeda taxifolia Pall. Fl. Ross. 2: 54. 1788. 
Phyllodoce taxifolia Salisb. Parad. Lond. pl. 36. 1806. 
Menziesia caerulea Sw. Trans. Linn. Soc. 10: 377. 1811. 
Bryanthus taxifolius A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 368. 1868. 
Plants 15 cm. tall or less, usually in depressed mats; leaf-blades linear, 4-9 mm. long, 
obtuse, serrulate; pedicels 2-6 together, or solitary, glandular; calyx 8-10 mm. wide, the 
lobes linear to lanceolate; corolla ovoid to urceolate, 7~8 mm. long, glabrous; stamens included; 
filaments much longer than the anthers, glabrous or nearly so; capsules globular or oval, 
3.5-4.5 mm. in diameter. 
Type Locality: Lapland. 
Disrrisution: Greenland, Labrador, and Quebec, and on mountain-tops in Maine and New 
Hampshire; circumboreal. 
Iniustrations: L. Fl. Lapp. ol. 1; Fl. Dan. pl. 57; Pall. Fl. Ross. pl. 72, f. 2; Salisb. Parad, 
Lond. pl. 36; Bot. Cab. pl. 164; Trans. Linn. Soc. 10: pl. 30; Sv. Bot. 1. 535; Britt. & Brown, Ill. 
FI. f. 2760; ed. 2. f. 3233. 
