Cassiope. ERICACEAE. 455 



campanulate and 5-1o1jg(1 : filaments slender and smooth : anthers naked, ohscurely 

 4-poin ted. — Hook. Fl. ii. 35, t. 129. 



lu forests, near the northern borders of the State {Br. Ncwhcrnj) ; without much (Unil)t also 

 within its limits, thence through Oregon and the Kocky Mountains. The//-«i^ scarlet, aromatic, 

 said to be delicious. 



2. Gr. Shallon, Pursh. Shrubby stems spreading or ascending a foot or two in 

 height: leaves ovate or slightly cordate, acuminate (2 to 4 inches lung), finely serrate 

 (the teeth when young bristle-tipped), shining : flowers in terminal and axillary 

 commonly pauicled or compound glandular-viscid racemes : bracts scaly : pedicels 

 recurved and 1 - 2-bracteolate below the middle : corolla ovate, the narrow orifice 

 5-toothed : filaments broad : anthers with a pair of awndike appendages on the 

 summit of each cell : fruit purple, becoming black. — Pursh, Fl. 284, t. 12; Hot)k. 

 Eot. Mag. t. 2843 ; Lindl. Eot. Pteg. t. 1411. 



In redwoods, &c., from the Bay of Monterey to Oregon and northward. Fruit a much-esteemed 

 article of food of the Oregon Indians, called by them ilhallun acconling to Lewis aud Clark, or at 

 present Salal. 



5. LEUCOTHOE, Don. 



Calyx of 5 nearly separate sepals, more or less imbricated in the bud, or very 



early open, not enlarging or becoming fleshy in fruit. Corolla oylindraceous or 



ovate, with contracted mouth and 5 short spreading teeth. Stamens 10 : hlameuts 



subulate : anthers naked, or the cells 1 - 2-pointed or awned at the apex, Avhich 



opens by a large pore. Capsule depressed, more or less 5dobed, 5-celled, loculi- 



cidally 5-valved, many-seeded. — Shrubs ; with petioled and commonly serrulate 



veiny leaves, racemose inflorescence, and abundance of white flowers ; the bracts and 



bractlets mostly scaledike ; and the flowers articidated with the pedicel, or this with 



the rhachis. — Gray, Man. Bot. 293. 



Genus still somewhat uncertain in extent ; the original species in the Atlantic United States ; 

 the recently-discovered Californian one a true Leucothoe, dlihongh. differing in some particulars. 



1. L. DavisicG, Torr. Evergreen shrub, 3 to 5 feet high, nearly glabrous: leaves 

 bright green, coriaceous, oblong, obtuse at both ends, obscurely spinulose-serrulate 

 (an^inch or two long) : racemes slender, erect, terminal and from the upper axils, 

 forming a cluster: flowers ' pendulous : bracts and bractlets at the base of the 

 recurvecl pedicels short and scarious, ovate or roundish : sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 whitish : anther-cells distinct to the middle, 2-pointed at the apex. — Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. vii. 400. 



In the Sierra Nevada; near Eureka, Nevada Co., discovered by Miss N. J. Davis. Plumas Co., 

 3frs. Pulsifer Aims, Lemmon. A beautiful shrub : flowers abundant : corolla 3 lines long. Fruit 

 "unknown. 



6. CASSIOPE, Don. 



Calyx of 4 or 5 membranaceous ovate sepals, imbricated in the bud, persistent, 

 bractless. Corolla broadly campanulate, 4-5-lobed. Stamens 8 or 10, included : 

 filaments subulate : anthers short, fixed near their apex, furnislied with a pair 

 of recurved awns at the insertion ; the turgid ovoid cells opening by a large ter- 

 minal pore. Style tapering upwards. Capsule globular, 4 - 5-celled, loculicidally 

 4 -5-valved ; the valves soon 2-cleft ; the large placenta3 pendulous. Seeds numer- 

 ous with a close coat. — Small arctic or alpine suffrutescent evergreens, with the 

 crowded or imbricated fohage and aspect of Heaths or Club-:Mosses ; the white or 

 rose-colored flowers sohtary and nodding on the apex of slender and erect naked 

 peduncles ; these surrounded by scaly bracts at their base. 



