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Genus PKCTIS Lilnnaens. 



PECTIS PAPPOSA A. Gray. 



LOBEXIACEAE. 

 Genus NEMACL.ADUS IVnttall. 



NEMACLADUS CAPILL.ARIS Greene. 

 NEMACLADUS LONGIFLORUS A. Gry. 

 NEMACLADUS PINNATIFIDUS Greene 

 NEMACLADUS RAMOSISSIMUS Nutt. 

 NEMACLADUS RUBESCENS Greene. 

 NEMACLADUS TENUISSIMUS Greene. 



Genns DOWNINGIA Torrey. 

 DOWNINGIA PULCHBLLA Torr. 

 LOBELIA SPLENDENS Wllld. 

 PALMERELLA DEBILIS A. Gray. 

 PARISHELLA CALIFORNICA A. Gray. 



CAMPANULACEAJE. 

 Genns GITHOPSIS Nnttall. 



GITHOPSIS DIFFUSA A. Gray. 

 GITHOPSIS SPECULARIOIDES Nutt. 

 Genus SPECULARIA Helster. 



SPECULARIA BIFLORA A. Gray. 

 SPECULARIA PERFOLIATA A./ D. C. 



ERICACEAE. 

 Genus ARBUTUS Tournefort. 



ARBUTUS ME'NZIESII Pursh. M:adrono. A 

 surpassingly beautiful tree, with white flow- 

 ers and orange-colored berries. Sometimes 

 grows 100 feet high. 

 Genus ARCT.OSTAPHYLOS Adanson. 



^Uva-ursi G syn fl 2 27; Daphnidosta- 

 phylis Klotzsch. 

 A UVA-URSI L 



Bear berry — not reaching: So. Calit. 



AROTOSTAPHYLOS TOMENTOSA Lindl. 

 Wooly Manzani'ta. 

 da 10 



AROTOSTAPHYLOS MANZAJNITA Parry. 

 The common Manzanlta of California. The 

 berries make excellent sauce, and the finest 

 quality of Vineg'ar; much eaten by Indians. 



Manzanita is a Spanish name, tke di- 

 minutive of manzana (apple), hence 

 means a "little apple." The name is 

 generally applied to all the species of 

 Arctostaphylos, and a writer in Mee- 

 han's Monthly (3:85) uses the name Ar- 

 batus Menziesii. The manzanita once 

 so common on the mesas back of San 

 Diego, is Arctostaphylos bicolor. The 

 shrub to which the name more especial- 

 ly belongs in California, and which 

 sometimes becomes a small tree, is that 

 named Arctostaphylos manzanita by 



mealy, and pleasantly sub-acid, well- 

 named by the M'exicans the "little iip- 

 ple," though botanically a near rela 

 tive of the cranberry instead of thfe 

 apple. The Indians gather the fruit in 

 September in great quantities for food, 

 and it is eaten freely by animals end 

 birds. It makes excellent jelly, pnd 

 the finest flavored vinegar, as clear as 

 water, may be prepared from the fruit. 

 The numerous other varieties of man - 

 zanitas all produce more or les3 siri- 

 l^r edible fruit, and are all mos'ly 

 small, straggly evergreen shrub.'-, 

 graceful in their own peculiar way, anl 

 bearing in earliest spring time a pro- 

 fusion of lovely white blossoms, .^ori - 

 times blushing a rosy red in a snow- 

 storm. 



ARCTOSTAPHYLOS PRINGLEI Parry. 

 "Young brancheK, including the petioles 

 and margins of the leaves, copiously cili- 

 ate-pubescent, with rlxed glandular hairB 

 leaves short, petiolate, glaucous, minutely 

 net-veined, with conspicuous mid-nerves, 

 ovate to broadly subcordate, abruptly 

 short mucronate; inflorescence closely 

 paniculate from a thickr-red base, inter- 

 mixed with budscales, indicating a late 

 flowering per od. racemose branches slen- 

 der, thickly covered a, we as he brae s. 

 pedicles and calyx, with ciliate and 

 glandular hairs, bracts ianceolate mem- 

 braneous, petaloid. deciduous, bracteoles 

 linear nearly 1/2 as long, pedicels slender, 

 divaricate, 4-5 times as lonar as the bi'acts, 

 calyx ciliate-glandular, corolla smooth, 

 broadly urceolate: ovary and fr. glandu- 

 lar, hispid, nutlets irregularly coalescent, 

 5-7-celled."- Parry. Bull. Cal. Acad. Sc!. 

 ii. 494 (Nov. 2, 1887). 



Variety? drupacea Parry Ca ac b 2 49- : 

 — ' DifFiring from the ^bove only in th« 

 completely consolidated .stone, deeply 

 culptured, A usiKilly with a conspicuous 

 i-sided furrow. Mts east of San Diego; 

 Or 543; S 1886, distributed as A glauca." 



§Xylococciis G 

 ARCTOSTAPHYLOS GLAUCA Lindl. The 

 greait-berried ManzanHta. 



Py Dw ac pr 4 34; Ca ac b 2 495 ;da to 

 ARCTOSTAPHYLOS BICOLOR A. Gray. 

 Densely branched irregular shiub, 3-5 

 ft high, with brown shreddy bark; le.tves 

 Dr. Charles Christopher Parry— the dull green above, whitish tomentose be- 

 A. pungens of the earlier writers on neath- fls in condensed racemes, w with 

 California botany This manzanita is -^j^j^ ^■ f^ ^ften persistent until 



common from Mexico to Oregon, |^„,. . ^ ,, .. • ^ ., ., 



through the foothills and mountains, in 2d fl'ing in F, smooth & shining, deep p-^ 

 dry, rocky soil. The fruit is a dull red, red, 4/2 lines in diameter; copious and 



