ERICACEAE. 397 



ziesii on the branches : leaves from oblong to lanceolate, 2 or 3 inches long, rather pale or 

 thiunish, entire or minntely denticulate : ovary (as in A. Menziesii) glabrous. — A. Xalapen- 

 sis, Sargent, Census Rep. Forest Trees, 97. A. Menziesii, Rothrock in Wheeler Rep. vi. 

 183, &c. — IMountains of S. Arizona, Thurhcr, Rothrock, Sarrjent & Engehnann, Prin/jle. 



Var. Texana. Low tree, with older bark mostly deciduous in the manner of A. Men- 

 ziesii: leaves from lanceolate-oblong to oval or ovate, more coriaceous, 2 or 3 inches 

 long : ovary pubescent. — A. Texana, Buckley, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1861 , 460 ; Sargent, 1. c. 

 A. Menziesii, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 108. A. Xalapensis in part, Watson, Proc. Am. 

 Acad, xviii. 111. — Limestone hills of W. Texas, first coll. by Wright. Passes into similar 

 Mexican forms on one hand, and is too like A. Menziesii on the other. 



5. ARCTOSTAPHYLOS, Adans. 



A . nuniinularia, Gray, p. 28. This grows 2 to 6 feet high, has been collected on the 

 Mendocino plains by Pringle, and near Santa Cruz by Anderson, by the latter with fruit ; an 

 oblong drupe, only 2 lines long, the thin pulp dry at maturity, and the whole splitting 

 up into the (mostly 4) thin-shelled nutlets. On this account. Parry, in monograph of 

 Arctostaphylos, in Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. iv. 30, makes this the type of a new 

 section. Micrococcus. 



A. bicolor, Gray, p. 29. Add syn. : A. Veatchii, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 19. Also 

 A. Clevelandi, p. 29, & Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 61, appears to be an abnormal and autumn- 

 flowering state of this species. 

 A. POLIFOLIA, in § 4. Comaristaphjlis, to be replaced by 



A. diversifolia, Parry, in herb. Shrub 6 to 15 feet high: herbage minutely canescent- 

 tomentose when young, the inflorescence sometimes hirsute-pubescent and with some small 

 glandular bristles : leaves glabrate, firm-coriaceous, short-petioled ; those of flowering 

 branches mostly spatulate-lanccolate, entire or spinulose-serrulate ; of sterile shoots oblong or 

 oval, either finely or coarsely spinulose-dentate : racemes solitary or clustered, loose : bracts 

 lanceolate-subulate : calyx 5-parted into subulate divisions : corolla ovate : filaments long- 

 bearded at base : drupe only 2 lines in diameter and with solid .5-celled putamen. — A. argnta, 

 var. diversifolia, Parry in Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. iv. 35, not A. arguta, Zucc, which 

 has a different calyx. — Southern borders of California, below San Diego and adjacent 

 Lower California, 0. N. Sanford, Parrg, Orciitt. 



A. oppositifolia, Parry. An anomalous species : leaves opposite or in threes, linear, 

 entire, with revolute margins, much resembling those of Andromeda poli folia : flowers pa- 

 niculate : corolla globular, a line or two long : ovary canescent : drupe smooth, depressed- 

 globose ; the putamen separable at maturity into five perfectly or incompletely 2-celled nutlets. 

 — Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. iv. 36. A. polifulia, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 108, not 

 HBK. — On or very near the boundary between San Diego Co. and Lower California, and 

 southward, Parry, (Jrcutt, Pringle, &c. 



7. GAULTH:&RIA, Kalm. 



G. Myrsinites, Hook., p. so. Strike out the last sentence, and add : Glabrous: leaves 

 oval or rounded, not ovate, mostly only half-inch long : corolla depressed-campanulate, little 

 surpassing the calyx. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 84. 



G. OVatifolia, Gray, 1. c. Larger, with ascending branches ; and with some at length 

 rusty-colored hairs, at least on the calyx : leaves broadly ovate or even subcordate, the lar- 

 gest an inch and a half long, more serrulate : corolla campanulate, double the length of the 

 calyx- lobes. — Cascade Mountains, British Columbia to Oregon, Lyall, E. Hall, S. Watson, 

 Suksdorf, the last of whom indicated the characters. 



10. LEUCOTHOE, Don. 



L. Catesbeei, Gray, p. 34. The words " (4 to 7 inches long) " in line 3, are misplaced : 

 they relate to the leaves. To this, and not to L. acuminata, belongs Andromeda acuminata, 

 Smith, Exot. Bot. t. 89. 



