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about thickets, along overgrown fence rows, and at other favor- © 
able places in the hills, preferring moist northerly slopes. ‘The 
fruit is “blue with a dense bloom,” somewhat like a small 
olive in appearance. Its range is said to be “the hills encircling 
San Francisco Bay.” 
- ARCTOSTAPHYLOS ANDERSONII Gray. Manzanita. = =~ 
A shrub doubtfully referred to this species is common on 
the ridges west of Los Gatos. ‘he leaf is variable, on some 
plants being almost orbicular, but is commonly longer than 
broad, an inch wide, and about an inch and a half in length. 
The young branches and petioles are clothed with spreading 
chaffy hairs. The small white flowers are a quarter of an inch 
long, about a fifth of an inch broad at base, tapering suddenly 
and constricted just below the apex to less than an eighth of an 
inch, the short rounded lobes of the petals slightly downcurved. 
The leaves are blue-green in color. The type was collected 
near Santa Cruz among the redwoods. It is said to occur on 
the Oakland Hills and on Mt. Diablo, but is not known from 
north of San Francisco. So far as I know the form here men- 
tioeed is restricted to the ridges west of the town, the one found — 
on the east side being some other species. 
DODECATHEON CRUCIATUM Greene. Mosguzto bills. Sazlor’s 
caps. Shooting star. Meadza. 
Those who are familiar with the Cyclamen will have no 
trouble recognizing this plant, for the flowers of the two resem- 
ble each other. The rose-purple petals instead of spreading or 
standing erect as do most petals, are turned back and upside 
down as it were, the exposed and closely pressed together sta- 
mens pointing downward. The corolla tube is very short, only 
about a tenth of an inch long, but twice as broad, its face or the 
part around the stamens ofa rich purplish brown. At the very 
bottom of the tube is a narrow band of yellow, then a narrow 
band of white shading into the rose-purple of the limb. The 
whole flower, including the stamens, is from three-fourths to an 
