Arctostaphylos. ERICACE^. ^f^g 



clustered racemes (white or rose-color), on pedicels shorter than the hracts : ovary- 

 hirsute : fruit red, minutely puherulent or becoming glabrous, not viscid. ]5<»t 



Reg. t. 1791 ; Hook. Fl. ii. t. 130, & Bot. Mag. t. 3220. A. cordljoUa, Lin.ll. 1. i-', 

 a form with cordate leaves and few or no bristles. Andromeda bracteosa, DC. 

 Xerobotrys tomentosus, argutus, & cordifolius, Nutt. 1. c. 



Dry hills, from Santa Barbara Co. northward to Puget Sound. This is a common Manzanilti 

 through the western pa'rt of the State, running into many forms as to foliage, bristles, &c. Fruit 

 used for a cooling subacid di'ink. 



3. A. nummularia, Gray. Erect, a foot or two high, nearly glabrous, except- 

 ing long bristly hairs on the branches : leaves oval (half to two thirds of an inch 

 long), rounded at both ends, sometimes obscurely cordate, very short-petioled, 

 mostly entire, thick and rigid, bright green, the upper surface shining : racemes 

 short and clustered : bracts shorter than the pedicels : ovary miimtely tomentose. 

 — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 366. 



Plains around Mendocino City, Bolander. Very leafy : leaves like those of the Dwarf Box. 

 Flowers small, white. Fruit unknown. 



•k * Ovary glabrous : no kisjnd hairs on the branches and j^etioles. 



4. A. ITva-ursi, Spreng. Prostrate, trailing or somewhat creeping, almost gla- 

 brous : leaves spatulate or oblong-obovate, obtuse or retuse : flowers in small and 

 short racemose clusters : filaments bearded : fruit red. 



Doubtless in the State on the borders of Oregon and northern Nevada ; thence not rare north- 

 ward and eastward, extending round the world. The medicinal Uva-ursi, or Bearbcrry, and the 

 Kinnikinick of the Western Indians. 



5. A. pumila, I^utt. Erect, dwarf, tufted, minutely tomentose-pubescent : 

 leaves obovate-oval or oblong-obovate, obtuse, or some of them more or less mucro- 

 nate-tipped, pale : flowers as in the preceding but smaller : iilaments sparingly 

 bearded or nearly naked. — A. pumila & A. acuta, Kutt. 1. c. Daj^hnidostaphylis 

 pumila, Ivlotzsch. 



Around Monterey, Nuttall, Rich. Much resembles A. Urva-ursi ; but it is an erect shrub, 

 about half a foot high, branching from the base and forming tufts. Leaves from half to two 

 thirds of an inch long. 



6. A. pungens, HBK. Erect or at high elevations procumbent, minutely 

 cinereous-tomentose when young, or glabrous : smooth close bark brownish-red 

 (mahogany-color) : leaves commonly becoming vertical by a twist of the distinct or 

 pretty long petiole, very rigid, often glaucous or pale, entire or occasionally dentic- 

 ulate with a few sharp teeth, varying from oblong-lanceolate to oval, most of them 

 pungently mucronate-acuminate or cuspidate : flowers crowded in very short ra- 

 cemes, on short glabrous pedicels : filaments strongly ciliate bearded : fruit yellowish, 

 turning dull red. — HBK. J^ov. Gen. & Sp. iii. t. 259 ; Torr. in Emory Rep. t. 7. 

 Arbutus pungens, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey, 144. Andromeda (?) vemdosa, DC. 

 Prodr. vii. 607. Arctostaphylos Hooheri, Don. A. glauca, Watson, Bot. King 

 Exp. 210. Xerobotrys venulosus, Nutt. 1. c. ; Benth. PL Hartw. 321. JJaphnido- 

 staphylis pungens & D. Hookeri, Klotzsch. 



Dry and barren ridges everyTvhere, both on the coast and at gi-eat elevations, extending north 

 into Oregon, east to Utah and New Mexico, and south into Mexico. This, the cominon Man- 

 zanita, is exceedingly variable, including, as it must, the Small Manzftnita, which at high eleva- 

 tions is procumbent, rising only a few inches in height, and larger forms, with erect stems, tor- 

 tuous branches, &c., rising to eight or ten feet in height ; the sliort trunk sometimes a foot in 

 diameter at base, but divided near the ground. Some of these forms, especially in the foot-liills 

 and Sierra, with brnurlies nearly or quite glabrous, and with broad and larger, pale or glaucous 

 and oval or (iv,itr lr:i\(>s, commonly destitute of the pungent tip, are usually referred to A. 

 glama, but that is distinguished by its romarkablo fruit. "The fruits of the present species are 

 iiol Liigcr tli:iii ili.iM' of .'/. Inniriit.is,!, (iiil\ t liiirs in diameter, the nutlets only a line or two in 

 diauictcV, s( |i;ir;ililc, .11 one (.1 twn |uiis riili, iiiiu, tiie imtamen of less thickness than the cavity. 

 The s|)r,iiic 7iaiiic, '/iiiDi/nts, is scl.loia appi (>|iri.iif for the Californian plant. The fruit is eaten 

 by Indians and liears. 



