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rimis ; ari8tis antherae praelongis genuflexis ; ovario tomentuloso. — 

 On the plains near Mendocino City. Leaves rounded at the apex and 

 seldom with any sign of a mucro. Flowers much smaller than those 

 of A. tomentosa, white. Fruit unknown. 



BRYANTHUS, Gmelin. Bryanthus & Phyllodoce (Salisb.), Don. 

 The beautiful Californian species described below makes it necessary 

 to combine Phyllodoce with the far earlier Bryanthus. Among the 

 characters to distinguish the genus from Menziesia are the foliaceous 

 persistent bracts or leaves subtending the pedicels, as in Kalmia, &c, 

 while Menziesia has strobilaceous flower-buds of scarious caducous 

 scales, as in Azalea, &c. 



§ 1. Corolla patenti-campanulata usque ad medium o-fida ; stamina 

 exserta. 



Bryanthus Breweri : glaber ; caulibus adscendentibus rigidis ; 

 foliis crebris linearibus loavibus margine arete revolutis ; pedicellis plu- 

 rimis minute glandulosis flore vix longioribus ; sepalis oblongo-ovatis 

 glaberrimis; corolla rubro-purpurea ; staminibus 10 (raro 7-8) styloque 

 longius exsertis ; antheris violaceis ; stigmate capitate — High sierras 

 of California, alt. 10,000 feet ; on Wood's Peak, Eldorado Co., Prof. 

 Brewer; near Dormer's Pass, Prof. Torrey ; and Mariposa Co., Bo- 

 lander : also Mt. Hoffmann, Brewer (forma compacta, floribus primum 

 capitato-congestis). In habit and foliage this resembles the following 

 species, but is larger, the leaves sometimes half an inch in length, 

 stems nearly a foot high; the bright "rose-violet" or "red-purple " co- 

 rolla half an inch in diameter when expanded, cleft to or rather beyond 

 the middle. Anthers, as in the other species, opening by terminal 

 chinks, but inclined to dehisce longitudinally. 



§ 2. Phtllodoce. Corolla ore 5-dentata vel brevissime 5-loba, 

 stamina ineludens, 



* Campanulata, glabra, rosea, lobis reflexis : folia laevia margine 

 revoluta. 



Bryanthus empetriformis. Menziesia empetriformis (Smith) 

 & M. Grahamii, Hook. This (M. Grahamii, Hook., which appears 

 really to be the M. empetriformis also) was collected on Mount Shasta 

 by Prof. Brewer. The style is either short-exserted or included on 

 the same plant. 



Bryanthus intermedius, Menziesia intermedia, Hook., needs fur- 

 ther elucidation. One specimen from Dr. Lyall's collection in the 

 Rocky Mountains, with cylindraceous corolla, and narrower (but not 



