234 Pink to Red Flowers 



racemes; corolla ovoid, constricted at the throat. Fruit: globose, drupe 

 red, glabrous, containing five coalescent nutlets. 



A trailing shrub which is exceedingly handsome ; it grows 

 in depressed patches several feet in diameter, from a single 

 main root. It is usually found creeping over dry gravelly 

 places, and covering the rocks with its bright little ever- 

 green leaves. In the autumn these leaves turn bronze, and 

 lovely scarlet, dry, berry-like fruits gem the spreading 

 branches. 



White flushed with rose colour are these tiny rounded 

 flowers, constricted at the throat, and giving forth a faint 

 sweet odour. 



" Oh ! to be friends with the lichens, the low, creeping vines 

 and the mosses, 



There close to lie ; 



Gazing aloft at each pine-plume that airily, playfully tosses 

 'Neath the blue sky." 



Doubtless the name Bearberry is derived from the fact 

 that Bruin is very fond of the fruit of the Arctostaphylos, 

 though with small game birds, and especially grouse, it is 

 also a favourite article of food. This is the true Kinni- 

 kinic of the Indians who prize it for its astringent proper- 

 ties, using it as a medicine and also in the " curing " of 

 animal skins. 



Arctostaphylos alpina, or Alpine Bearberry, is a very tiny 

 species, from two to four inches long, and is found growing 

 on mountain summits as high as 7000 feet. It is usually 

 prostrate, with thin' conspicuously veined leaves, a few pale 

 pink or white flowers, and bright red juicy berries. This 

 is also a shrub and in spite of its small size has shreddy 

 bark. 



Arctostaphylos tomentosa, or Manzanita, is tomentose 



