(4.venz iesie Smith. 
Vert 
Erect shrubs with alternate deciduous leaves. Flowers in terminal 
umbels. Sepals 4 or 5, persistent. Corolla urn-shaped, 4-lobed .g eng 
usually 8, included; filaments subulate, flattened. Ovary 4-chambered; 
stigma 4-lobed. Fruit a septicidal 4-valved capsule. 
oa gatellap Gray. False Huckleberrye A shrub with unpleasant odor 
when crushed, 1-2 m. tall, the branches ascending numerous, rebranching, the 
bark light brown, shredding away, the branchlets pubescent and glandular; 
leaves appearing in false whorls at the tips of branches, 5-8 om. long, 2-545 
come wide, oblanceolate or obovate, obtuse, often rounded, narrowed towards the 
base, the margin entire, ciliate, both surfaces sparingly pubescent, the upper 
bluish-green in shade forms, yellowish in sun forms, the lower paler; flowers 
i clusters on very short spurs terminating the previous 
year's growth, drooping in flower, soon erect, the pedicels 2-5 om. long, 
glandular; -she calyx lobes 1 mm. long, hemispherical, glandular fringed; thw» 
corolla pinkish, ovoid, 6-9 mm. long, the lobes rounded, 1-1.5 mme long; 
stamens and style included, the filaments glabrous,5 mme long; ovary glandular 
pubescent; capsules variable, 5-8 mm. long, with a few scattering glands; the 
seeds 2 mm. long, attemate from the middle. 
qp Common throughout our region fran 3000-6000 ft., forming an important 
ies shrub in burns and on open slopes. The sun forms have an aspect much like 4 
M. ferruginea but may be distinguished by the glabrous filaments and glandular® ; 
pubescent ovary; poisonous to sheep, which in our region generally avoid it. 
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