Part 1, 1914] ERICACEAE 75 
Corolla relatively large, over 8 mm. long; plant of 
the Pacific coast region from Alaska to California. 24. G. Shallon. 
1. Gaultheria humifusa (Graham) Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 
300. 1900. 
Vaccinium humifusum Graham, Edinb. New Phil. Jour. 11: 193. 1831. 
Geultheria Myrsinites Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 35. 1834. 
A depressed or cespitose shrub mostly less than 1 dm. tall, glabrous or nearly so; leaf- 
blades oval or suborbicular, 1-2 cm. long, rounded, obtuse, or acutish at the apex, entire or 
obscurely toothed, abruptly narrowed or truncate at the base, very short-petioled; calyx 7-8 
mm. broad, the lobes ovate, tsually abruptly pointed, glabrous; corolla about 4 mm. long, 
slightly exceeding the calyx, the lobes ovate, usually fully as long as the tube; stamens about 
2 mm. long; fruits 5-7 mm. in diameter, scarlet. 
_ Tyre Locatrry: Canadian Rocky Mountains; grown from seed in the botanical garden at 
Edinburgh. 
DisTR1sution: Alberta and British Columbia to Colorado and Washington. 
2. Gaultheria ovatifolia A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 84. 1883. 
A diffuse shrub 3 dm. tall or less, more or less pubescent with reddish hairs; leaf-blades 
ovate or orbicular-ovate, or some of them reniform, mostly 2-3 cm. long, acute or short- 
acuminate, toothed, usually conspicuously so, truncate to subcordate at the base, short- 
petioled; calyx 7-8 mm. broad, the lobes triangular to ovate-lanceolate, acute or slightly 
acuminate, finely pubescent; corolla 4.5-5 mm. long, much exceeding the calyx, the lobes 
ovate, nearly as long as the tube; stamens 2.5-3 mm. long; fruits 7-9 mm. in diameter, scarlet. 
TYPE Locatiry: Cascade Mountains, British Columbia to Oregon. 
DISTRIBUTION: British Columbia to Idaho and Oregon. 
ILLUSTRATION: Brown & Schiffer, Alp. Pi. Can. pl. 58, 6. 
3. Gaultheria procumbens L. Sp. Pl. 395. 1753. 
A low glabrous or minutely pubescent shrub, with creeping stems (rootstocks), the branches 
erect or ascending, 3-15 mm. high, rarely branching, leafy at the top; leaf-blades leathery, 
oval or elliptic, varying to ovate or obovate, retuse or often apiculate, crenate or serrate with 
bristle-tipped teeth, deep-green or commonly variegated above, narrowed into short petioles; 
pedicels 4-8 mm. long, recurved, with 2 broadly ovate scales; calyx white, 3-4 mm. wide, 
the lobes ovate, acutish, ciliolate; corolla white, wax-like, ovoid, 6-9 mm. long, with a flat 
base, the tube constricted at the throat, the lobes ovate, obtuse, recurved, villous within; 
filaments densely villous; fruits subglobose, 7-11 mm. in diameter, bright-red or white, spicy. 
TypE Loca.iry: Canada. 
Distripution: Newfoundland to Manitoba, Georgia, and Michigan. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Lam. Tab. Encyc. pl. 367; Andr. Bot. Repos. pl. 116; Nouv. Duham. 1: pl. 12; 
Bot. Mag. pl. 1966; Bot. Cab. pl. 82; Barton, Veg. Mat. Med. pl. 15; Bigel. Am. Med. Bot. fl. 22; 
Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 2775; ed. 2. f. 3248; Mathews, Field Book 331. 
4, Gaultheria sphagnicola Rich. Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris 1: 
109. 1792. 
? Brossaea coccinea L. Sp. Pi. 1190. 1753. 
Epigaea cordifolia Sw. Prodr. 73. 1788. eat 
? Gaultheria cordifolia Raeusch. Nom. ed. 3. 124, nomen. 1797. Not G. cordifolia H.B.K. 1819. 
Brossaea anastomosans Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 142. 1859. Not Gauliheria anastomosans H. B. K. 
1819 
Gaultheria coccinea Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 330, in part. 1902. Not G. coccinea H.B.K. 1819. 
A depressed much-branched shrub, with red-hirsute twigs; leaf-blades ovate to sub- 
orbicular, 1-2.5 cm. long, or individually smaller, leathery, abruptly gland-tipped, ciliate- 
serrulate, deep-green above, paler beneath, pubescent along the veins, reticulate at maturity, 
rounded to subcordate at the base, short-petioled; panicles few-flowered, mostly 1-3 cm. long, 
the rachis and branches red-hirsute; bracts ciliate; calyx 7-9 mm. wide, the lobes ovate, 
becoming ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; corolla urceolate, 5-6.5 mm. long, crimson, glabrous, 
the lobes slightly recurved; fruits globular, 4.5-5.5 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LocaLity: Guadeloupe. : 
DisTRIBUTION: Guadeloupe; Martinique; also in Trinidad and northern South America. 
