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LORANTHACE/E. Mistletoe Family. 



Phoradendron flavescens villosum Engelm. This is the 

 mistletoe that grows on the oaks. It was noted on Quercus chrys- 

 olepis and on Q. Californica. In Kings River Canon. 



Phoradendron Bolleanum Eichler. This is the species found 

 on the firs. It was noted on Abies concolor in Kings River Canon. 



Razoumofskya occidentalis abietina Greene. This also was 

 found on Abies concolor in Kings River Canon. It is distin- 

 guished from the preceding by the brownish-yellow color of the 

 herbage and the scale-like leaves. 



VACCINIACE/E. Huckleberry Family. 



Vaccinium caespitosum Michx. Bilberry. Low shrub form- 

 ing patches under the trees, only a few inches high, leafy, smooth 

 and not angled. Leaves obovate, ><-i in. long, almost sessile, 

 serrulate, deciduous, smooth. Flowers pink, in the axils on 

 drooping pedicels ; the corolla urn-shaped, % in. long. Berry 

 blue when ripe, edible. Bullfrog Lake. This is only to be looked 

 for at the higher elevations. 



ERICACE/E. 



K£ir TO XHK GENERA. 



COROLLA WITH THE PETALS UNITED. 



Fruit a berry with the seeds more or less cohering. 



Arctostaphylos, Manzanita. 



Fruit a capsule. 



Corolla open bell-shaped, 5-lobed ; leaves scale-like, folding closely 

 over each other ; anthers with points ; capsule splitting on the 

 sides Cassiope. 



Corolla bell-shaped ; leaves heath-like ; anthers vv'ithout points 

 or appendages ; capsule splitting at the partitions. 

 Bryanthus, Mountain Heather. 



Corolla basin-shaped ; leaves broad ; anthers enclosed in pouches ; 

 capsule splitting along the partitions. 

 Kalmia, Mountain Laurel. 



Corolla large, funnel-form, 5-lobed; stamens exserted, declined ; 

 capsule woody, splitting at the partitions. Showy flowers ; 

 plants shrubby. . . . Rhododendron, Azalea. 



COROLLA WITH THE PETALS ALL SEPARATE. 

 Shrub several feet tall ; flowers in umbels. 



Ledum, Labrador Tea. 



