ERICACEAE. 275 
MENZIESIA. 
(Family Ericaceae). 
Shrubs: deciduous. Twigs 
slender, roundish, with shredding 
bark: pith small, rounded, con- 
tinuous. Buds solitary, sessile, 
ovoid, small, with about 2 ex- 
posed scales or the terminal or 
subterminal flower-buds larger 
and with some half-dozen scales. 
Leaf-scars crowded toward the 
tips of the sometimes dwarfed 
and sometimes greatly elongated 
twigs, small, low, 3-sided or the 
lower transversely linear: bundle- 
trace 1:  stipule-scars lacking. 
The ovoid capsules may be pres- 
ent in winter. 
Winter -character reference to 
Menziesia pilosa:—Schneider, f. 
123. 
In contrast with Gaulthe- 
ria, and in agreement with the 
larger number of Ericaceae as one ordinarily views them, 
Menziesia has a compact homogeneous pith. Comparative 
studies of the pith are given by Gris in a memoir on the pith 
of woody plants published in full in volume six of the Nou- 
velles Archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle of Paris, and 
in an abridgement of this in volume 14 of the fifth series of 
the Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Plate 13 of the former 
is devoted to Ericaceae. 
Capsules bristly-glandular. (1). M. pilosa. 
Capsules glabrate. M. glabella. 
