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angled, green ; leaves ovate, serrate, very glabrous and sinning ; peduncles 
1 - flowered, solitary. Var. microphyllum. Hook. Leaves 2-3" long. — Stems 
6-1° liigli, very diffusely branched, from running rootstocks ; tlie leaves are 
2- 6" long and often ratlier narrowly oblong, acute at eacli end ; flowers veiy 
small, scarcely 1" in length, nearly white ; fruit small, about 2" in diameter, 
light red. Abundant in the Uintas, in the shade of pines at 8-9,000 feet alti- 
tude ; in flower and fruit, July and August. Reported from Sitka and the 
Rocky Mountains of British America, (in latitude 52°,) Wyoming and Colo- 
rado. (736.) 
AiiCTOSTAPHYLOS Uva-Uksi, Spreng. The ascending branches 4-6' high, 
forming dense patches ; the " Kinnikinnick" of the western Indians. From 
New Jersey and Wisconsin northward to the Arctic Ocean, while in the 
Rocky ]\r()untains and westward it extends from latitude 63° to Northern 
California and Colorado ; Council Grove, Kansas, (Abert.) Ruby and Hun- 
tington Valleys, Nevada, and frequent in the Uintas and in Bear River Val- 
ley ; 6-8,000 feet altitude ; in fruit, July-September. (737.) 
Arctostaphylos glauca, Lindl. DC. Prodr. 7. 586. Leaves glaucous, 
glal)r()us, ovate-oblong, entire, acute, coriaceous, very obtuse at base ; racemes 
short, compound, with scalelike bracts ; fruit ovate. — An evergreen branching 
shrub, 2-10° high, with red exfoliating bark ; leaves vertical and alike upon 
both surfaces, 1-li' long; flowers light rose-color; fruit flattened, black, 
smooth, 3-4" in diameter, filled with triangular rough stony seeds. The 
specimens from the Uintas (the most eastern locality in which it has been 
collected) are from a low form, but 2-3° high, somewhat pubescent, and with 
varial)h.' lenvcs, broadly ovate, oval or obovate upon the same branch, and 
subcordatc or acute at base. They are distinguished from smooth forms of 
A. tomentosa by the perfectly glabrous fruit, but approach the A. pun gens of 
the h('r1)ariuiiis. The plant has, however, perfectly the habit, the smooth red 
l)ark and exceedingly crooked shrubby growth of A. glauca^ without any re- 
semblance whatever to A. Uva-Ursi, with which the "prostrate" A. pimgens 
is eompnred. Oreuon, Cahfornia, Western Arizona, (Bigelow,) and in the 
Wahsatch, (:\Irs. Carrington.) Washoe IMountains, Nevada, (in flower, April 
and May,) and in the Uintas ; 6-9,000 feet altitude. (738.) 
Gaultiieria :\rYRSiNiTES, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Amer, 2. 35, 129. Low; 
branches ca\spitose, rooting; leaves broadly ovate, ciliate-serrate ; flowers 
solitary, w ith several ovate Ijracts, the subcamiianulate corolla scarcely exceed- 
