Arctostaphylos. ERICACEAE. 453 



clustered racemes (white or rose-color), on pedicels shorter than the bracts : ovary 

 hirsute : fruit red, minutely puberulent or becoming glabrous, not viscid. Bot. 

 Eeg. t. 1791 ; Hook. Fl. ii. t. 130, & Bot. Mag. t. 3220. A. cordifolia, Lindl. 1. c., 

 a form with cordate leaves and few or no bristles. Andromeda bracteosa, DC. 

 Xerobotrys tomentosus, argutus, &, cordifolius, Kutt. 1. c. 



Dry hills, from Santa Barbara Co. northward to Puget Sound. This is a common Manzanita 

 through the western part of the State, running into many forms as to foliage, bristles, &c. Fruit 

 used for a cooling subacid drink. 



3. A. nummularia, Gray. Erect, a foot or two high, nearly glabrous, except- 

 ing long bristly hairs on the branches : leaves oval (half to two thirds of an inch 

 long), rounded at both ends, sometimes obscurely cordate, very short-petioled, 

 mostly entire, thick and rigid, bright green, the upper surface shining : racemes 

 short and clustered : bracts shorter than the pedicels : ovary minutely tomentose. 

 Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 366. 



Plains around Mendocino City, Bolander. Very leafy : leaves like those of the Dwarf Box. 

 Flowers small, white. Fruit unknown. 



* * Ovary glabrous : no hispid hairs on the branches and petioles. 



4. A. Uva-ursi, Spreng. Prostrate, trailing or somewhat creeping, almost gla- 

 brous : leaves spatulate or oblong-obovate, obtuse or retuse : flowers in small and 

 short racemose clusters : filaments bearded : fruit red. 



Doubtless iii the State on the borders of Oregon and northern Nevada ; thence not rare north- 

 ward and eastward, extending round the world. The medicinal Uva-ursi, or Bearberry, and the 

 of the Western Indians. 



5. A. pumila, Nutt. Erect, dwarf, tufted, minutely tomentose-pubescent : 

 leaves obovate-oval or oblong-obovate, obtuse, or some of them more or less mucro- 

 nate-tipped, pale : flowers as in the preceding but smaller : filaments sparingly 

 bearded or nearly naked. A. pumila & A. acuta, Isutt. 1. c. Daphnidostaphylis 

 pumila, Klotzsch. 



Around Monterey, Nuttall, Rich. Much resembles A. Urva-ursi ; but it is an erect shrub, 

 about half a foot high, branching from the base and forming tufts. Leaves from half to two 

 thirds of an inch long. 



6. A. pungens, HBK. Erect or at high elevations procumbent, minutely 

 cinereous-toinentose when young, or glabrous : smooth close bark brownish-red 

 (mahogany-color) : leaves commonly becoming vertical by a twist of the distinct or 

 pretty long petiole, very rigid, often glaucous or pale, entire or occasionally dentic- 

 ulate with a few sharp teeth, varying from oblong-lanceolate to oval, most of them 

 pungently mucronate-acuminate or cuspidate : flowers crowded in very short ra- 

 cemes, on short glabrous pedicels : filaments strongly ciliate bearded : fruit yellowish, 

 turning dull red. HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. iii. t. 259 ; Torr. in Emory Eep. t. 7. 

 Arbutus pungens, Hook. & Am. Bot. Beechey, 144. Andromeda (1) venulosa, DC. 

 Prodr. vii. 607. Arctostapht/los Hookeri, Don. A. glauca, Watson, Bot. King 

 Exp. 210. Xerobotrys venulosus, Nutt. 1. c. ; Benth. PI. Hartw. 321. Daplmido- 

 staphylis 2^ungens & 1). Hookeri, Klotzsch. 



Dry and barren ridges everywhere, both on the coast and at great elevations, extending north 

 into Oregon, east to Utah and New Mexico, and south into Mexico. This, the common Man- 

 znnit/i, is exceedingly variable, including, as it must, the Small Manzanita, which at high eleva- 

 tions is procumbent, rising only a few inches in height, and larger forms, with erect stems, tor- 

 tuous branches, &c., rising to eight or ten feet in height ; the short trunk sometimes a foot in 

 diameter at base, but divided near the ground. Some of these forms, especially in the foot-hills 

 and Sierra, with branches nearly or quite glabrous, and with broad and larger, pale or glaucous 

 ami oval or ovate leaves, commonly destitute of the pungent tip, are usually referred to A. 

 g'auca, but that is distinguished by its remarkable fruit. The fruits of the present species are 

 not larger than those of A. tomentosa, only 4 lines in diameter, the nutlets only a line or two in 

 diameter, separable, or one or two pairs cohering, the putamen of less thickness than the cavity. 

 The specific name, pungens, is seldom appropriate for the California!! plant. The fruit is eaten 

 by Indians and bears. 



