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The Manzanitas 



stalk is covered with long whitish hairs and is i cm. long or less. The flowers 

 are in short panicles with conspicuous lanceolate leaf-like bracts, which are usually 



longer than the short hairy pedi- 

 cels and taper-pointed corolla. 

 The ovary is densely hairy. The 

 fruit, ripening in August, is hairy 

 and about 6 mm. in diameter, 

 yellowish to red; pulp relatively 

 thick; nutlets easily separable or 

 united into pairs. 



The wood is hard, tough and 

 strong, close-grained, reddish or 

 dark brown, and heavy; it takes 

 a fine pohsh and is used in Ore- 

 gon for fancy cabinet work and 

 in turnery. The fruits are edible. 

 Anderson's Manzanita, Arcto- 

 staphylos Andersoni A. Gray, is 

 reported as sometimes becoming arborescent and 6 m, high, with a trunk base 3 

 dm. in diameter; it occurs in the Redwood forests of Santa Cruz county, and in 

 San Mateo county, California, and differs from the preceding in its thinner, 

 heart-shaped sessile leaves, more bristly twigs, wider and more hairy bracts of 

 the inflorescence, and has a more southern range. 



Fig. 696. Woolly Manzanita. 



2. LARGE MANZANITA Arctaphylos Manzanita Parry 



An erect evergreen shrub or 

 small tree, often 8 meters tall; a 

 noted tree in Napa county, Cah- 

 fomia, has a height of 10.5 me- 

 ters, a trunk diameter of over i 

 m. and a spread of over 10 m. It 

 is frequent in the Coast Moun- 

 tains of Cahfomia, forming dense 

 thickets on the mountain sides, 

 extending northward into Ore- 

 gon. 



The trunk is erect, usually 

 much branched, often from near 

 the ground. The bark is thin 

 and smooth, dark reddish, peeling 

 off freely in large flakes, exposing 

 the greenish younger bark, which Fig. 697. Manzanita. 



