a 
qd 4 Ve membranaceum Dougl. Huckleberry. A shrub commonly about 1 m, tall, 
less at higher elevations, the stem erect or reclining at the base, branching 
chiefly above, the bark olivaceous, somewhat shredding, branchlets green, 
less often red, the internodes 5-20 mm, long; leaf=-blades 1,5=5 em, long, 
veriable in size on the same plant, thin, bright green, elliptical or ovate, 
usually wider near the base, mostly sub-acute at the tip, more or less 
rounded and narrowed at the base, the margin obscurely serrate, both surfaces 
glabrous, on petioles 1-2 mm, long; flowers inconspicuous, pendant, the 
calyx limb undulate, subentire, the corolla pearly-white tinged with rose, 
$,0-4,5 mn, long, depressed-globose, the lobes scarcely .5 mm, long; fruit 
erect, usually the color of port or burgundy or sometimes nearly black, or 
at high elevations sometimes bright red, rarely ivory-color, bearing scarcely 
any bloom, 
q Common throughout our tegion especially on dry open slopes, in old 
purns. 
