52 Sierra Club Publications. 



Herbs with green foliage {except in Pyrola aphylla). 



Flowers in a corymb or umbel on a leafy stem ; petals widely 

 spreading, style short, stigma shield-shaped. 

 Chimaphila, Prince's Pine. 



Flowers in a raceme on a scape ; petals not widely spreading ; 

 style long Pyrola, Wintergreen. 



Herbs red or brown, without any green foliage. 



stems brown ; corolla urn-shaped. Pterospora, Pine-drops. 

 stems red, corolla bell-shaped. . Sarcodes, Snow-plant. 



Arctostaphylos Mariposa Dudley. Shrub 3-5 feet tall 

 with spreading branches, the older bark smooth, the younger 

 pale green, hairy and glandular. Leaves pale green, minutely 

 veiny, entire or serrulate with spiny teeth, orbicular to oblong, 

 1-2 in. long, mucronate at top ; petioles short, glandular, hairy. 

 Panicle drooping, with viscid peduncles and pedicels and small, 

 triangular bracts. Seeds bony, large. Millwood and Kings 

 River Caiion. 



Arctostaphylos patula Qreene. Tall, erect shrub with 

 spreading branches ; stems smooth except on the inflorescence 

 and the younger growth, these clothed more or less with a gland- 

 ular and powdery pubescence. Leaves bright green, almost 

 smooth, elliptical, acute, 1% in- long, i in. wide, mucronate. 

 Panicles many flowered, drooping at first ; bracts small ; peduncles 

 and pedicels somewhat glandular but not viscid. Berry smooth. 

 Millwood, the common species at upper elevations. 



Cassiope Mertensiana Don. Perennial, growing in patches, 

 bright green and smooth. Flowers in the upper axils on filiform 

 pedicels recurved at apex so that the flowers droop. Calyx red- 

 dish, edged with white. Corolla white, % in. long. This was 

 seen only on Bubbs Creek near the foot bridge at the ford. 



Bryanthus Breweri Qray. Low stems, generally less than a 

 foot high, forming patches. Stems very leafy, somewhat glandu- 

 lar. Leaves narrowly linear, the revolute edges meeting the 

 thick midvein, not quite yi in. long, becoming shorter and 

 broader towards the inflorescence. Flowers corj-mbose in the 

 upper axils, later becoming racemose ; pedicels filiform covered 

 with brown glands, nearly yi in. long ; sepals, petals and anthers 

 purplish. This is quite common. It was collected at Bullfrog 

 and East Lakes and on Kearsarge Pass. 



Kalmia glauca microphylla Hook. Low plant with woody 

 base, smooth throughout, 2-4 in. high. Leaves elliptical, less 

 than yi in. long, with the lower surface paler than the upper and 



