Cassiope. ERICACEJS. 455 



campanulate and 5-lobed : filaments slender and smooth : anthers naked, obscurely 

 4-pointed. Hook. Fl. ii. 35, t. 129. 



In forests, near the northern borders of the State (Dr. Ncwbcrry) ; without much doubt also 

 within its limits, thence through Oregon and the Rocky Mountains. The fruit scarlet, aromatic, 

 said to be delicious. 



2. Gr. Shallon, Pursh. Shrubby stems spreading or ascending a foot or two in 

 height : leaves ovate or slightly cordate, acuminate (2 to 4 inches long), finely serrate 

 (the teeth when young bristle-tipped), shining : flowers in terminal and axillary 

 commonly panicled or compound glandular-viscid racemes : bracts scaly : pedicels 

 recurved and 1 - 2-bracteolate below the middle : corolla ovate, the narrow orifice 

 5-toothed : filaments broad : anthers with a pair of awn-like appendages on the 

 summit of each cell : fruit purple, becoming black. Pursh, Fl. 284, t. 12; Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 2843 ; Lindl. Bot. Eeg. t. 1411. 



In redwoods, &c., from the Bay of Monterey to Oregon and northward. Fruit a much-esteemed 

 article of food of the Oregon Indians, called by them Shallon according to Lewis and Clark, or at 

 present Salal. 



5. LEUCOTHOE, Don. 



Calyx of 5 nearly separate sepals, more or less imbricated in the bud, or very 

 early open, not enlarging or becoming fleshy in fruit. Corolla cylindraceous or 

 ovate, with contracted mouth and 5 short spreading teeth. Stamens 10 : filaments 

 subulate : anthers naked, or the cells 1 - 2-pointed or awned at the apex, which 

 opens by a large pore. Capsule depressed, more or less 5-lobed, 5-celled, loculi- 

 cidally 5-valved, many-seeded. Shrubs ; with petioled and commonly serrulate 

 veiny leaves, racemose inflorescence, and abundance of white flowers ; the bracts and 

 bractlets mostly scale-like ; and the flowers articulated with the pedicel, or this with 

 the rhachis. Gray, Man. Bot. 293. 



Genus still somewhat uncertain in extent ; the original species in the Atlantic United States ; 

 the recently-discovered California!! one a true Leucothoe, although differing in some particulars. 



1. L. Davisiae, Torr. Evergreen shrub, 3 to 5 feet high, nearly glabrous: leaves 

 bright green, coriaceous, oblong, obtuse at both ends, obscurely spinulose-serrulate 

 (an inch or two long) : racemes slender, erect, terminal and from the upper axils, 

 forming a cluster : flowers pendulous : bracts and bractlets at the base of the 

 recurved pedicels short and scarious, ovate or roundish : sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 whitish : anther-cells distinct to the middle, 2-pointed at the apex. Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. vii. 400. 



In the Sierra Nevada; near Eureka, Nevada Co., discovered by Miss N. J. Davis. Plumas Co., 

 Mrs. Pulsifer Ames, Lcmmon. A beautiful shrub : flowers abundant : corolla 3 lines long. Fruit 

 unknown. 



6. CASSIOPE, Don. 



Calyx of 4 or 5 membranaceous ovate sepals, imbricated in the" bud, persistent, 

 bractless. Corolla broadly campanulate, 4 -5-lobed. Stamens 8 or 10, included : 

 filaments subulate : anthers short, fixed near their apex, furnished with a pair 

 of recurved awns at the insertion ; the turgid ovoid cells opening by a large ter- 

 minal pore. Style tapering upwards. Capsule globular, 4 5-celled, loculicidally 

 4 5-valved ; the valves soon 2-cleft ; the large placentae pendulous. Seeds numer- 

 ous with a close coat. Small arctic or alpine suffrutescent evergreens, with the 

 crowded or imbricated foliage and aspect of Heaths or Club-Mosses ; the white or 

 rose-colored flowers solitary and nodding on the apex of slender and erect naked 

 peduncles ; these surrounded by scaly bracts at their base. 



