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nia on dry hills. A. nummularia. Erect, but only one or two 

 feet high. Very leafy, like the Dwarf -box. A. Uva-Ursi (Bear- 

 beriy). TraUiug leaves, thick and evergreen. Tliis is the Kin- 

 nikinick of the Western Indians, and is found on rocky, bare 

 hills throughout the northern part of Europe, Asia, and 

 America. A. xmmila, is a closely allied species to the last, but 

 stems erect. California. A. Alpina, dwarf, tufted. Fruit 

 black. Alpine region of Euroi^e, and North America. A. xwli- 

 folia, erect, five to eight feet high. Frait dark purple, minutely 

 warty. Southern California. 



Arctostaphylos bicolor, Gray. — An erect shrub, three to four feet 

 high. Flowers rose-color. Fruit small, the size of a pea, yellow, 

 turning to red, and from one to five seeds in each. California' 

 San Diego, and near Monterey. 



A. pnngens. — California Manzanita. — Leaves with a long stem, 

 oblong-lanceolate or oval. Flowers crowded in a short raceme. 

 Fruit reddish. A small tree, twenty to thirty feet high, but on 

 the mountains only a small shrub. "Wood very hard, heavy, 

 and the color of mahogany. Excellent for the finer kiads of 

 cabinet work. Southern Utah, Arizona, California, and Mexico. 



A. glanra. — ^Leaves very stiff, oblong, slightly heart-shaped. 

 Fruit red, large, smooth, nut enclosed in a thin pulp. This is 

 known in California as the Great-berried Manzanita, as the fruit 

 is sometimes three-fourths of an inch in diameter. A small 

 tree twenty feet high, with stem sometimes a foot in diameter. 



ARDISIA. 



A genus containing many species of handsome evergreen 

 shrubs, or small trees, native of tropical countries, valued for 

 their handsome fohage, small but showy flowers, and pretty 

 berries, which are usually very persistent, remaining a long 

 time attached to the plant. One species in the United States. 



Ardisia Pickeringia. — Leaves smooth, oblong-ovate, obtuse, en- 

 tire two inches long, narrowed at base, into a short petiole, pale 

 beneath. Flowers small, in short terminal racemes. A large 

 shrub or small tree, twenty tJ thirty feet high. Southern 

 Florida, west to Mexico, also in the West Indies. Ardisia Japan- 

 ica is quite a favorite for green-house culture, on account of 

 its bright and persistent berries. All the species easUy multi- 

 plied from seed or cuttings of the young shoots. 



