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275. ARCTOSTAPHYLOS. 



Low shrubs; leaves alternate, coriaceous, persistent, entire or 

 with a few irregular teeth; flowers small, nodding, pink or white, 

 in terminal racemes or clusters; calyx free from the ovary; 

 corolla ovate and urn-shaped, with 5 short teeth; stamens 10; 

 anthers with two reflexed awns on the back; drupe berry-like 

 with 5-10 seed-like nutlets. 



Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. Kinnikinnick. Prostrate or trailing 

 shrub with red bark, the much branched stems 20-80 cm. long, forming dense 

 mats, glabrous throughout or minutely puberulent; leaves evergreen, leathery, 

 spatulate-obovate, obtuse or notched, cuneate at base, 1-3 cm. long, short- 

 petioled; flowers in short racemes; corolla pink, ovate, 4-5 mm. long; filaments 

 hairy; fruit bright-red, glabrous, 5-8 mm. in diameter. Dry pine woods, 

 common. 



276. PHYLLODOCE. 



Low alpine heath-like evergreen undershrubs; leaves numer- 

 ous, linear, obtuse, serrulate; flowers solitary or in umbels at the 

 ends of the branches; calyx free from the ovary; corolla 5- 

 toothed; stamens 10; anthers pointless, shorter than the fila- 

 ments; fruit a 5-celled, 5-valved, many-seeded dry capsule. 



Phyllodoce empetriformis (Smith) D. Don. Much branched, 15-50 cm. high; 

 flowers in umbels; corolla rose-colored, campanulate, 4-5 mm. long, the lobes 

 shorter than the tube. In wet meadows, Blue Mountains, 2000 m. altitude. 



277. MENZIESIA. 



Shrubs with alternate hairy deciduous leaves; flowers small, 

 nodding, greenish-purple, in terminal corymbs or umbels, de- 

 veloped with the leaves; calyx small or minute, flattish, 4-toothed 

 or lobed; corolla cylindrical to urn-shaped, 4-lobed; stamens 8; 

 capsule ovoid, woody, 4-celled, 4-valved, many-seeded. 



Menziesia ferruglnea Smith. Erect shrub, 1-2 m. high, the branches 

 inclined to be falsely whorled, the young branchlets puberulent; leaves thin, 

 oblong or obovate, obtuse, short-mucronate, cuneate at base, serrulate and 

 ciliate, minutely puberulent, paler beneath, 2-5 cm. long; petioles short; 

 pedicels slender, 2-4 cm. long, glandular-puberulent; corolla oblong or ovoid- 

 campanulate, reddish-yellow, 7-9 mm. long; filaments glabrous or pubescent 

 below; capsules oblong or obovoid, mostly glabrous; seeds tailed at each end. 

 Deep woods, in the mountains. 



Family 69. PRIMULACEAE. PRIMROSE FAMILY. 



Herbs; leaves simple, mostly entire, alternate, opposite or in 

 a basal cluster, without stipules ; flowers regular, perfect ; corolla 

 gamopetalous, 4-8, usually 5-lobed or cleft; stamens as many as 

 and opposite the corolla-lobes, epipetalous; ovary superior, 1- 



