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EKICACEAE 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada: Hockett Mdw., Tulare Co., Jepson 14,690; Erolution Basin, Fresno 

 Co., E. Ferguson 483; Crescent Lake, Mariposa Co., Congdon; Mt. Dana, Jepson 3267; Cold 



Creek, Tuolumne River. Jepson 4492 ; Suzy Lake, Eldo- 

 rado Co., Ottley 1143 ; Silver Lake, Lassen Co., Baker 4" 

 Nutting; Mt. Shasta (N. Am. Fauna 16:158); Mt. 

 Warren, Modoc Co., Frances Payne 723. North Coast 

 Ranges: Humboldt Bay, Chandler 1181; Crescent City 

 (2 mi. e.), Tracy 12,392; Cuddihy Valley, w. Siskiyou 

 Co., Jepson 2851. 



Var. arbuscula Gray. Thick-bushy and erect with 

 red branches, 1% to 2 feet high. — Mt. Shasta at lower 

 altitudes than the species ; Plumas Co. 



Eefs. — Vaccinium c.\espitosum Michx., Fl. 1:234 

 (1803), type loc. Hudson's Bay, Canada: Jepson, FI. 

 W. Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 315 (1911), Man. 752 (1925). Var. 

 ARBuscuLA Gray, Syn. PI. 2:24 (1878), type from Plu- 

 mas Co., E. If. Austin. V. arhuscula Merriam, N. Am. 

 Fauna 16:159 (1899). 



5. V.parvifoliumSm. Red Huckleberry. 

 (Fig. 304.) Shrub 3 to 12 (or 25) feet high; 

 branches and branchlets slender, very sharply 

 angled, green, articulated; leaf -blades mostly 

 oval, entire, mncronulate, thin, pale beneath, 

 o to 8 or 12 lines long; pedicels 2 to 4 lines long, 

 deflexed in fruit or sometimes curved; calys. 

 slightly 5-lobed; corolla globular, greenish; 

 berry bright red, somewhat translucent, 4 to 6 

 lines in di- 



Fig. 303. Vaccikium caespitosttm 

 Michx. a, flowering branch, X % ; b, 

 long. sect, of fl., X 3 ; c, stamen, X 5 ; 

 d, berry, X 1. 



am e 1 6 r , 

 pleasantly 

 flavored. 

 Wooded slopes and flats and in wet places 

 on serpentine : Coa.st Ranges, 100 to 4700 feet, 

 from Santa Cruz Co. to Del Norte Co.; Sierra 

 Nevada, 2500 to 5900 feet, from iladera Co. to 

 Shasta Co. North to Ala.ska. Apr.-May. It 

 is also called Coral Berrv in Humboldt Co. 

 (J.P.Tracy). 



Locs. — Coast Ranges: Santa Cruz Co. (Anderson, 

 Nat. Hist. Santa Cruz Co. 40) ; Butano Creek, San Ma- 

 teo Co., Elmer 4924; Fort Ross, H. F. Bracelin 22; 

 Brandon's MUl, Noyo, Jepson 17,835 ; Sherwood Valley, 

 Mendocino Co., Bavy 5159 ; Bull Creek, South Fork Eel 

 River, Constance 759; Newell Camp, Kneeland Prairie 

 road, Humboldt Co., Tracy 4879; betw. Korbel and An- 

 gels ranch, Humboldt Co., Jepson 1926 ; Horse Mtn., 

 Tracy 8133; near Preston Peak, Siskiyou Mts., Jepson 

 2866; Camp Sbc, Middle Fork Smith River, Del Norte 

 Co., If. S. Baker. Sierra Nevada: Fresno Big Trees, 

 Jepso7t 15,972 ; Red Cloud Mine, Mariposa Co., Cong- 

 don; Rock Creek, Eldorado Co., 0. M. Evans; Sugar 

 Pine ranger sta., Placer Co., L. S. Smith 2542 ; Cow 

 Creek Caiion, e. Shasta Co., AI. S. Baker. 



Refs. — Vaccinium parvipolium Sm., Rees' Cycl. 

 36:no. 3 (1819), type loc. "Northwest Coast," ilcnzies: 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 373 (1901), ed. 2, 315 (1911), 

 Man. 751 (1925). 



Fig. 304. V.ACCINIUM 

 Sm. a, fl. branehlet, X % 



PARVIPOLIUM 



b, long. sect. 



of fl., X 3 ; c, stamen, X 5; d, f r., X 1. 



6. V. myrtillus L. Mountain Bilberry. (Fig. 305.) Stems freely branched, 

 3 to 10 inches high; branchlets angled, green, rather straight and disposed to be 

 somewhat fastigiate; leaf -blades obovate to ovate, Vo to 1 inch long, serrulate or 



