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pointed at top, obtuse at base, white on the lower surface from the 

 close pubescence. Flowers in small cymes. Calyx teeth minute, 

 petals white, fruit white or lead-color. Oregon to British Columbia. 



GARRYA'CE.35. SILK-TASSEL BUSH FAMILY 

 GAR'RYA, Silk-tassel Bush, Quinine Bush 



Evergreen shrubs with opposite leathery leaves. Flowers 

 grayish green, apetalous, dioecious, in pendent axillary cat- 

 kins, which are solitary or several. Sterile flowers with 

 4-parted calyx, and 4 conspicuous stamens on distinct fila- 

 ments. Fertile flowers^with a 2-lobed calyx or none, styles 2, 

 ovary 1-celled, containing 2 ovules. Fruit a berry with a 

 brittle outer covering, pulpy within, and containing 1 or 2 

 seeds. This is the only genus. 



a. G. Fremon'tii Torr. Leaves becoming glabrous, not wavy- 

 margined. Fruit very bitter, purple. Sterile catkins 2-3 in. long. 

 Middle California. 



b. G. ellip'tica Dougl. Leaves white-woolly on the lower surface, 

 wavy-margined. Fruit, when ripe, red-purple, pleasantly acid, with 

 a hint of bitterness. The sterile catkins are from 2 to 5 in. long, 

 and look like fringe. From Monterey County to Oregon and 

 Washington. 



ERICA'CE^aS. HEATHER FAMILY 



Herbs or woody plants. Leaves simple, evergreen or 

 deciduous, without stipules. Stamens as many or twice as 

 many as the parts of the corolla ; anthers 2-celled, opening 

 by little holes at the top. Ovary generally with as many 

 cells as there are parts to the corolla, inferior in Vaccinium 

 but superior in the other genera. Style simple. Fruit a 

 berry or a pod with axillary placentae. 



I. VACCINIUM, Huckleberry 



Shrubby. Calyx and corolla apparently on the summit of 

 the ovary, the calyx tube being adnate to the ovary. Stamens 



