A ROTOSTAPHY LO 8 ERCICE 415 
a trunk 6-30 inches in diameter: bark close and smooth by exfoliation, on 
large trees becoming rough near the base, turning brownish-red: leaves 
oval or oblong, entire or serrulate, green with more or less red veins above, 
pale and finely reticulated beneath, 3-5 inches long by 1-3 inches broad, 
tirm-coriaceous: branches of the panicle minutely pubescent: calyx-lobes 
broadly ovate, about a line long: corolla globular, 3-5 lines long: berries 
somewhat drupaceous, reddish-orange, 3-5 lines in diameter. On dry hill- 
sides, Vancouver Island to southern California: west of the Cascade Mts. 
2 ARCTOSTAPYLOS Adans. Fam. PI. ii, 165. (Manzanira.) 
Shrubs or small trees with alternate broad coriaceous evergreen 
leaves which are usually vertical by a twist of the petiole, and 
small white to light red flowers in terminal, usually pendulous, 
racemes or panicles. Pedicels bracteate and bracteolate. Calyx 
deeply 5-parted. Corolla urn-shaped, with 4 or 5 recurved lobes. 
Stamens 8 or 10; filaments dilated and hairy at base; anthers 
with 2 reflexed awns on the back, the cells opening by a hole at 
the top. Ovary 4-10-celled, with a single pendulous ovule in 
each cell, in fruit becoming a 4-10-celled, and by abortion, 1=7- 
seeded stone or patumen, or the cells distinct or more or less co- 
alescent at the ventral edge. Seeds with a slender erect, radical 
and small cotyledons in fleshy albumen. 3 
, * Depressed and trailing or creeping, green, glabrous-or minutely 
pubescent, no bristly hairs: flowers rather few in simple small clusters: 
ovary and fruit glabrous: nutlets 1-nerved on the hack. 
A. Uva-ursi Spreng. Syst. ii, 287. ( Kiynrxinic. ) Diffusely much 
branched and rooting at the nodes, forming depressed patches several feet . 
in diameter from a single main root: leaves oblong-spatulate, obtuse or re- 
tuse, an inch or less long, tapering into a short petiole, bracts ovate, acute, 
somewhat foliaceous: flowers few, in short racemes, white; corolla ovoid, 
constricted at the throat, about 2 lines long: drupe globose, red, glabrous, — 
3-5 lines in diameter, containing 5 coalescent nutlets. In open woods, 
California to the Arctic Circle and across:the Continent, 
A. intermedia Greene Pitt. ii, 171. Diffusely branching, the main 
divisions of the stem procumbent, a foot or two long; leafy branches as- 
cending or erect, less than a foot high: leaves obovate-cuneiform, about an 
inch long, obtuse, puberulent beneath: racemes terminal, subsessile, few- 
flowered : fruit globose, slightly depressed, 3-4 lines in diameter; nutlets 
5-7, firmly consolidated. On dry gravelly ground, Mason Co. Washington. 
A. Nevadensis Gray Syn. Fl. ii, 27. Stems loosely branching from 
the base, the branches decumbent, 1-2 feet long: leaves ovate or oval to 
lanceolate-spatulate, cuspidate-mucronate, abruptly petioled, 6-12 lines 
long : racemes few-flowered : corolla white, oblong, 2-4 lines long: drupes 
dull red, 3-4 lines in diameter: nutlets mostly separate. On the high 
mountains, Washington to California. 
* * Erect low shrubs: leaves at most.an inch long: flowers on short, 
mostly clustered, racemes or spikes, only a line or two long. 
A. hispidula. Stems 4-6 feet high, with very dark colored bark, 
rather strictly branched; branchlets glandular-hispidulous, very leafy: 
leaves oblong or oblong-ovate or some oblong-lanceolate, with indistinct 
cartilaginous margins acute at both ends, cuspidate, green and glabrous, 
with round pubescent petioles: bracts glabrous, triangular with a very 
broad base, acuminate, not foliaceous: pedicels glabrous, longer than the 
