764 The Manzanitas 



is said to occasionally become arborescent; it differs from the above-described 

 species in its greener leaves, redder young twigs, erect flower-buds, stiff, persistent 

 bracts, very viscid pedicels and fruit, the latter scarcely half as large as that of 

 A. glauca, and containing a relatively smaller stone, which separates into 4 or 5 

 rhomboidal nutlets. 



Gaultheria Shallon Pursh, the Salal, an evergreen shrub of the northwest from 

 central California to Alaska, has smooth, finely toothed ovate leaves, white flowers 

 in one-sided racemes, and black edible fruits. It is almost always a shrub, but 

 is reported as occasionally arborescent and about 6 meters high. 



