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Jepson 3343 ; Lake Smedberg, Tuolumne Co., Jcpson 4505 ; Suzy Lake near Fallen Leaf, Ottley 

 1142b; Mt. Anderson, Placer Co., Sonne ; Kneeland Mill, Nevada Co., Sonne; Lassen Peak (Bot. 

 Cal. 1 :456). Trinity and Siskiyou Cos. : Whites Creek (head of), Devils Canon Mts., Trinity Co., 

 Tracy 14,611; Thompson Peak, Alexander 4' Kellogg; Mt. Eddy, Copeland 3898. 



Eefs. — Cassiope mertensiana G. Don, Hist. Dichl. PI. 3:829 (1834) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. 

 Cal. ed. 2, 311 (1911), Man. 743, fig. 726 (1925). Andromeda mertensiana Bong., Mem. Acad. 

 St. Petersb. ser. 6, 2:152, t. 5 (1832), type loe. Sitka, Alas., Mertens. 



7. LEUCOTHOE Don 



Shrubs with coriaceous alternate leaves. Flowers white, in terminal or subter- 

 minal racemes, thus forming a naked panicle. Bracts and bractlets in ours small, 

 scarious or whitish. Calyx of 5 sepals. Corolla ovate, 

 with a narrow opening. Stamens 10; anthers oblong, 

 obtuse, awnless but with each cell 2-mucronate. 

 Ovary 5-celled; stigma 5-lobed. Capsule somewhat 

 depressed, loculicidal; placentae borne on the upper 

 part of the central axis or columella. — Species 30, 

 North and South America and Asia. (Leucothoe, 

 daughter of Orchamur, King of Babylon, and Eury- 

 nome.) 



1. L. davisiae Torr. SierraLaurel. (Fig. 287.) 

 Erect evergreen shrub 2 to 6 feet high; leaf -blades 

 oblong, obscurely serrulate or entire, 1 to 3 inches 

 long; racemes erect, 2 to 4 inches long; flowers pen- 

 dulous, 3 to 3i'2]ines long; capsule depressed-globose, 

 shallowly 5-lobed, 2 to 214 lines wide. 



Springy ground in the mountains, 6000 to 8000 

 feet : Sierra Nevada from Madera Co. to Butte Co. ; 

 Trinity and Siskiyou Cos. July. The foliage is ex- 

 tremely poisonous to sheep. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada: Whiskey Eidge, Madera Co., K. 

 Brandegee ; Poison Mdw., 5 mi. from Kelty Mdw., Madera 

 Co., Kennedy ; Signal Peak, Mariposa Co., Congdon; Mutton 

 Creek, Eldorado Co., ace. P. G. Eaddoclc; Frog Lake, Castle 

 Peak, Nevada Co., Sonne ; Scales Diggings, near Poverty Flat, 

 Sierra Co., C. B. Bradley ; Bucks Eanch, Plumas Co., 0. M. 

 Evans; Brush Creek, Butte Co., Conger. North Coast Ranges: 

 Grizzly Creek, Trinity Co., Alexander S^ Kellogg 283 ; Whiskey 

 Butte, w. Siskiyou Co., J. P. Young. 



Eefs. — Leucothoe davisiae Torr.; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7:400 (1868), type loc. Nevada 

 Co., Xancy J. Davis; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 311 (1911), Man. 743 (1925). Oreocallis 

 davisiae Small, N. Am. Fl. 29:58 (1914). 



8. GAULTHERIA L. 



Evergreen shrubs or f rutieulose plants. Leaves alternate, broad, shining above. 

 Flowers white or pink. Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla 5-toothed or -lobed. Stamens 10; 

 filaments dilated at base. Ovary depressed, 5-lobed, 5-eelled, seated on a thin nar- 

 row undulate-toothed disk ; placentae horizontal ; stigma entire or obscurely 5-lobed. 

 Calyx becoming fleshy and at length enclosing the pod, forming a globose berry- 

 like fruit. — Species about 100, North and South America, Asia and Australia. 

 (Dr. Gaultier, Canadian physician and botanist.) 



Flowers in racemes ; filaments hairy on back ; anthers with a pair of spreading awns from the 



summit of each cell ; berries blue-black, 4 to 6 lines long 1. G. shallon. 



Flowers solitary in the axOs; filaments glabrous; anthers not awned; berries scarlet, about 3 

 lines long. 



Calyx glabrous; leaf -blades oval; stems glabrous, sometimes puberulent or hairy 



2. G. humifusa. 

 Calyx hairy; leaf -blades ovate; stems and petioles hairy 3. G. ovalifolia. 



Fig. 287. Leucothoe davisiae 

 Torr. a, flowering branch, X % ; 

 b, fl., X 21/2 ; c, long. sect, of fl., 

 X2V2; d, capsule, X 21/2. 



