Ericaceae. 



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Menziesia. 

 (Family Ericaceae). 



Shrubs: deciduous. Twigs 

 slender, roundish, with shredding 

 bark: pith small, rounded, con- 

 tinuous. Buds solitary, sessile, 

 ovoid, small, with about 2 ex- 

 posed scales or the terminal or 

 subterminal flower-buds larger 

 and with some half-dozen scales. 

 Leaf-scars crowded toward the 

 tips of the sometimes dwarfed 

 and sometimes greatly elongated 

 twigs, small, low, 3-sided or the 

 lower transversely linear: bundle- 

 trace 1: stipule-scars lacking. 

 The ovoid capsules may be pres- 

 ent in winter. 



Winter - character reference to 

 Menziesia pilosa: Schneider, f. 

 123. 



In contrast with Gaulthe- 

 ria, and in agreement with the 

 larger number of Ericaceae as one ordinarily views them, 

 Menziesia has a compact homogeneous pith. Comparative 

 studies of the pith are given by Gris in a memoir on the pith 

 of woody plants published in full in volume six of the Nou- 

 velles Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris, and 

 in an abridgement of this in volume 14 of the fifth series of 

 the Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Plate 13 of the former 

 is devoted to Ericaceae. 



Capsules bristly-glandular. 

 Capsules glabrate. 



(1). M. pilosa. 

 M. glabella. 



