ERICACEAE (HEATH FAMILY) 



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plants, bristly with rusty hairs, with evergreen rounded and 

 heart-shaped alternate leaves on slender petioles. Rose-colored 

 flowers in axillary clusters. Corolla tube hairy within. 10 sta- 

 mens, and depressed-globular 5-celled capsule. 



E. repens, TRAILING ARBUTUS. Flowers ap- 

 pearing in early spring and exhaling a rich spicy 

 fragrance. Rocky soil, especially in the shade 

 of pines. 



ARCTOSTAPHYLOS 



Shrubs with alternate leaves. Scaly-bracted 

 nearly white flowers in terminal racemes or 

 clusters. Urn-shaped corolla with a 5-toothed 

 revolute limb. 10 included stamens, anthers 

 with 2 reflexed awns in the back near the Epigea rcpcns, Trail- 

 apex. Fruit a berry. 



ing arbutus. 



A. Uva-ursi, BEARBERRY. Trailing; leaves thick and evergreen, 

 obovate or spatulate, entire, smooth ; fruit red. Rocks and bare hills. 

 May. 



GAYLUSSACIA 



Branching shrubs, usually with resinous 

 dots. Pale flowers (tinged with purple or 

 red) in lateral racemes. Tubular or bell- 

 shaped corolla with 5-cleft border. 10 sta- 

 mens with awnless anthers. Ovary lo-celled 

 and fruit a berry-like drupe. 



G. baccata, HUCKLEBERRY. Much branched, 

 rigid, slightly pubescent when young; leaves 

 oval to oblong, thickly clothed and at first clammy (as well as the 

 flowers) with shining, resinous globules; racemes short, clustered, 

 i-sided ; bracts and bractlets reddish ; fruit black. Rocky ground and 

 swamps. May, June. 



VACCINIUM 



Shrubs with solitary, clustered, or racemed flowers; white or 

 reddish corolla, variously shaped. 4 or 5-cleft and revolute 

 limb. 8 or 10 stamens. Anther cells tapering into a tube. A 

 4 or 5-celled berry (sometimes 8 or lo-celled by false .partitions). 



Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, 

 Bearberry. 



