70 ERICACKE. (HEATH FAMILY.) 



to 10 bony seeds. The white or rose-colored flowers in terminal racemes; the bark smooth, 

 exfoliating. 



* Ovary and depressed-globose fruit more, or less pubescent; brancldets often hispid. 



1. A. Andersonii, Gr. Erect, 6 or 10 ft. high; branchlets minutely tomentose, 

 hispid with long, white, bristly hairs; leaves thin-coriaceous, green, lanceolate-oblong or 

 ovate lanceolate, with a strongly sagittate-cordate base, sessile or nearly so, mostly 

 Bpinulose-serrulate; fruit nearly or quite half an inch in diameter, with viscid bristles. 



2. A. tomentosa, Dougl. Leaves thick and very rigid-coriaceous, varying from oblong- 

 lanceolate to ovate and even cordate, entire or rarely serrulate, usually becoming verti- 

 cal, smaller than the last; flowers in very short clustered racemes; fruit not viscid. 



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



3. A. pumila, Nutt. Erect, dwarf, less than a foot high, tufted; leaves broadest 

 near the apex, less than an inch long. 



4. A. pungens, HBK. Leaves commonly becoming vertical by a twist of the dis- 

 tinct or pretty long petiole, very rigid, often glaucous or pale, entire or with a few teeth, 

 varying from oblong-lanceolate to oval; flowers on smooth pedicels; filaments ciliate, 

 bearded; fruit yellowish, turning dull red. Very variable. 



A. GLAUCA, Lindl., if found, may be recognized by its large fruit, with the seeds consolidated 

 into one woody stone, half an inch in diameter. A. bicolor, Gr., is smaller and has email apparently 

 one-seeded berries. 



4. GAUIiTHERIA, L. WINTERGREEN. SALAL. 



Calyx 5-cleft, generally colored like the corolla. Corolla 5-toothed. Stamens 10 

 included, similar to those of Arbutus. Capsule 5-lobed, 5-celled, many-seeded, inclosed 

 in the calyx, which enlarges and makes a juicy berry -like fruit. 



1. G. Shallon, Pursh. Shrubby, stems ascending a foot or two in height; leaves 

 ovate or slightly cordate, 2 to 4 inches long, finely serrate, shining; flowers white or rose- 

 colored, in glandular- viscid racemes. 



5. RHODODENDRON, L. 



Calyx very small. Corolla often slightly irregular. Stamens 5 to 10; filaments fili- 

 form. Style long, commonly declined or incurved. Shrubs with alternate, entire leaves, 

 usually crowded on the flowering branchlets; the showy flowers in terminal umbels or 

 corymbs from ample scaly buds. 



1. R. occidentale, Gr. (AZALEA.) A deciduous shrub, 2 to C ft. high; leaves 

 obovate-oblong, bright green and shining above; corolla minutely viscid-pubescent out- 

 side, white, the upper lobe yellowish inside; the narrow funnel-form tube equaling the 

 deeply 5-cleft slightly irregular limb; stamens and style much exserted, curved. The 

 showy fragrant flowers are sometimes nearly three inches long; rarely pinkish. 



P CALIFORNICTJM, Hook., is a larger evergreen shrub, with large bell-shaped rose-purple flowers 

 true Rhododendron , probably not found south of Mendocino County. 



