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EKICACE.K. Canunuudu 



2. C. Scouleri, Hook. A foot or so high, glabrous or slightly pubescent : stems 

 slender, braucinng, spreading, pauiculately several-llowered : leaves generally all 

 sharply serrate anil ucuiniiiate, mostly tapering below into a petiole, the lower ovate 

 and sometimes almost (entire, the upper ovatcdanceolate, or the \ippermost nar- 

 rower : llowers long-pedicelleil : calyxdobos slender-aubulatis a little sliorter than 

 the open oampanuhite 5-eleft corolla, the lobes of which are ovate-oblong : style 

 exserted. — Hook. Fl. t. 125. 



Indian Valley, Plumas Co. (Lemmmi) to Oregon and Britisli Columbia. A broad-leaved fonn. 

 (Jorolla 4 lines long, clelt to latlier below the middle, the bud oblong. 



3. C. prenanthoides, Durand. A foot or two high, roughish-pubescent or 

 glabrous : stems clustered, rather simple, racemosely or paniculately several-llow- 

 ered : leaves very shar|)ly and mostly coarsely serrate, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, 

 acute ; those of the stem mostly sessile, or the lower short-petioled : pedicels shorter 

 than the flower : calyx-lobes slender-subulate, usually much shorter than the corolla, 

 the narrowly lanceolate widely «i>reailing lobes of which are 2 to 4 times the length 

 of the tube : style long-exserted. — PI. I'ratten. in Jour. Acad. Philad. n. ser. 

 (1855) ii. 93; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 3GG. 6'. JiUjiora, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. 

 Acad. ii. 5. C. RoezLi, liegel, Animad. PI. Hort. Petrop. 1872, G. 



In redwoods, from Santa Ciuz to Jlendocino Co., and through the foot-hills up to Sierra Valley. 

 Corolla 5 to 8 lines long, naiiow, lylindriial before expansion. Caiisulo with broad and retuac 

 base and G salient ribs. 



4. C. linneeifolia, (!ray, I. c. Clabrous, but margins of leaves and angles of 

 stem retrorsely hispid-scabrous : stems weak, a span or two high, simple, or corym- 

 bose at summit, single- or few-llowered : leaves oval or ovate-oblong, mostly obtuse, 

 crenate, all but the lowest sessile : peduncle as long as the flower : calyx-lobes 

 broadly lanceolate, acute, about half the length of the bell-shaped corolla, the lobes 

 of which about ecpud the tube and are commonly retrorsely hispid-ciliato : style 

 included. — WalUenbe.njia Call/ornica, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 158, f. 4i), 

 judging from the ligure. 



In swamps at Noyo, Mendocino Co., lialnndcr. Leaves 4 to i) lines long. Corolla half an 

 inch long. A deHcate and peculiar species. 



C. UNIKLOUA, Linn., a very low one-llowered species, with narrow leaves, extends from the 

 arctic regions along the higiiei- llocky iMountains to Colorado, and to those of Utah at 11,000 feet : 

 it may occur on the higlicr sununits of tlio Sierra Nevada. 



Order LIV. ERICACE^. 



AVoody plants, or in the later suborders perennial herbs, with symmetrical and 

 mostly regular flowers ; the stamens as many or twice as many as the petals or lobes 

 of the corolla, and inserted with, but hardly ever upon it ; the anthers 2-celled, and 

 the cells opening by a terminal pore or chink ; the pollen of 4 united grains (except 

 in MonotroptLf:) ; the ovary with as many cells as the divisions of the corolla or 

 calyx ; the seeds small, and with small or miinite embryo in copious albumen. 

 Corolla genendly gamopetalous, sometimes of distinct petals, imbricated or rarely 

 convolute or vulvatu in the bud, the iusertion and that of the stamona hypogyuous, 

 or when the calyx is adnate e})igynous, around an annular disk. Style single : 

 stigma not rarely girt with a naked ring. Ovary with as many cells as the petals 

 or rarely one or two fewer : the placentie in the axis, with one exception. Ovules 

 anatropous. Leaves simple, commonly alternate, in some opposite, rarely in whorls, 

 articulated with the stem, destitute of stipules. 



A large and important order, of wide distribution, very sparingly represented in California, 

 but it chinis several of tlie most striking slirubs. Althuugli generally inert, and the fruit when 



