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3687 

 3687. Leucothoe Davisiae 



3688 

 3688. Gaultheria hutnifusa 



3689. Gaultheria ovatifolia 



branches glandular-pubescent; bracts conspicuous, colored, usually ciliolate; calyx 6-8 mm. 

 broad, the lobes triangular-lanceolate, pubescent; corolla white or pink, urceolate, 8-11 mm. 

 long, the lobes recurved; filaments pubescent; fruit black-purple, 7-8 mm. broad. 



Usually in woods, Transition Zones; southern Alaska south, west of the Cascade- Sierra Nevada Divide, to 

 Palomar Mountains, southern California. Type locality: "on the falls of the Columbia [Celilo, WashingtonJ and 

 near the western ocean [mouth of the Columbia]." April-July. 



12. ARBUTUS L. Sp. PI. 395. 1753. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs with fissured or smooth and exfoliating bark. Leaves alter- 

 nate, usually long-petioled, entire or toothed, coriaceous. Flowers perfect, in terminal 

 panicles. Calyx tardily deciduous, 5-lobed. Corolla urceolate, with the tube swollen and 

 much longer than the 5, rounded, spreading or recurved lobes. Stamens 10, included; 

 filaments dilated at the base; anthers each with 2 slender awns. Ovary sessile on the 

 disk, usually 5-celled; style columnar or subulate; stigma capitate; ovules numerous. 

 Fruit a globose or depressed-globose berry, with a rugose or granular surface. [The 

 ancient classical name of the strawberry tree.] 



A genus of about 20 species inhabiting southern Asia, the Mediterranean region, and the New World from 

 western North America to Chile. Type species, Arbutus Unedo L. 



1. Arbutus Menziesii Pursh. Madrono. Fig. 3691. 



Arbutus Menziesii Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 282. 1814. 



Arbutus proccra Dougl. ex Lindl. Bot. Reg. 21: pi. 1753. 1836. 



Tree 3^0 m. high, with a widely spreading crown ; bark exfoliating leaving a smooth pol- 

 ished surface highly colored with varying blends of green, brown, and red, or toward the base 

 of old trees becoming persistent and fissured. Leaves persistent and coriaceous, ovate-elhptic 

 to narrowly elliptic, 5-12 cm. long, entire or serrulate, glabrous or sparsely pubescent when 

 young, dark glossy green above; panicles 5-15 cm. long, the rachis and pedicels pubescent or 

 puberulent; calyx-lobes ovate, slightly over 1 mm. long; corolla pink or white, urceolate, 6-8 

 mm. long; filaments villous; ovary glabrous; style columnar, 5 mm. long; berry globose to 

 ovoid, 8-12 mm. in diameter, red or orange-red. 



Wooded slopes, Transition and Upper Sonoran Zones, but at its best in the Humid Transition Zone; Van- 

 couver Island and western British Columbia southward along the Pacific Slope to the Palomar Mountains, Cali- 

 fornia. Type locality: northwest coast of America. Collected by Dr. Menzies, on the Vancouver Expedition. 

 March-May. 



13. COMAROSTAPHYLIS Zucc. Abh. Akad. Munch. 2: 331. 1837. 



Erect or spreading shrubs, with exfoliating or persistent and shredded bark. Leaves 

 alternate, persistent, coriaceous, entire or toothed, petioled. Flowers in terminal racemes 

 or panicles, 5-merous or rarely 4-merous. Calyx persistent, the lobes exceeding the tube 

 and reflexed or spreading in age. Corolla urceolate, the lobes short and broad, spread- 

 ing or recurved. Stamens 10, included; filaments short, subulate, pubescent; anthers 2- 

 horned on the back. Ovary seated on a disk, 5-celled, depressed-globose or ovoid; style 



