28 ERICACE^. Arciostaphylos. 



* * Erect low shrubs, with mostly clustered short racemes or spikes: flowers only a line or two 

 long: leaves half inch or at most an inch long. 



A. pumila, Nutt. A foot or less high, tomentulose : leaves pale, oblong-obovate, obtuse 

 or retuse, sometimes obscurely mucronulate, entire, short-petioled : fruit unknown. — 

 Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n. ser. vii. 266; Gray, Bot. Calif. I.e. Daphnidoslaphylis pumila, 

 Klotzsch, 1. c. — Monterey, California, Nuttall, Rich. Not yet met with by recent col- 

 lectors. 



A. Hookeri, Don, A foot or two high, diffuse, puberulent or glabrate : leaves green, 

 ovate or oval, cuspidately mucronate or acuminate, sometimes spinulose-denticulate, slen- 

 der-petioled : fruit glabrous, 2 lines in diameter, reddish. — Syst. iii. 836. • Arbutus pungens, 

 Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech, 144. Andromeda ? venulosa, DC. Prodr. vii. 607. Xerohotrys 

 venulosus & Arctostaphi/los acuta? Nutt. in Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. I.e. A. pungens, -p&rtly, 

 Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 453, into which it may pass. But the smaller forms seem quite distinct, 

 and the drupes are very small. — Monterey, &c., CaUfornia. 



A. nummularia, Gray. A foot or two high, nearly glabrous, excepting scattered setose 

 bristles on the branches and short petioles, very leafy : leaves mostly broadly oval with 

 both ends rounded or the base slightly cordate, usually entire, bright green : fruit unknown. 

 — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 366, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. — Mendocino plains, California, Bolander. 



* * * Erect shrubs or low trees, with short clustered racemes: flowers 3 or 4 lines long and drupes 

 4 or 5 lines in diameter, yellowish turning reddish: leaves 1 to 3 inches long. 



A. Andersonii, Gray. Long and spreading bristles copious on the branchlets, &c. (along 

 with fine pubescence) : leaves thin, bright green, glabrous, lanceolate-oblong to ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, with a sagittate "or cordate base, sessile or very short-petioled, conspicuously 

 spinulose-serrulate or rarely entire : drupes depressed, densely clothed with exceedingly 

 viscid-tipped bristles. — Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 83, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. — Santa Cruz, California, 

 under Redwoods, Anderson. 



A. tomentosa, Dougl. Tomentose or pubescent when young, and the branchlets, &c., 

 usually bristly: leaves pale, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to ovate, entire or sparingly 

 spinulose-serrulate, petioled ; the base acutish, rounded or subcordate : ovary hirsute : drupes 

 minutely puberulent or becoming glabrous. (Runs into endless forms, of which one has 

 narrow-oblong and rather small leaves, acutish at base, apparently connecting with the 

 next species.) — Lindl. Bot. Reg. t,1791 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3220. A. cordi/olia, Lindl. 1. o. 

 Arbutus tomentosa, Pursh, Fl. i. 282 ; Hook. Fl. ii. 36, t. 130. Andromeda ? bracteosa, DC. 

 Prodr. vii. 607. Xerobotrys tomentosus, cordifolius, & argutus, Nutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 

 n. ser. viii. 268. — Dry hills, from Paget Sound to San Diego Co., California, and Arizona. 

 The berries are used in California in infusion for a subacid drink. Nutlets 8 to 10, 

 either all separate or some united in pairs. 



A. pungens, HBK. Glabrous or minutely tomentose-pubescent, 3 to 20 feet high : leaves 

 thick and rigid, green or glaucescent, oblong-lanceolate to round-ovate, commonly mucro- 

 nate-cuspidate, entire, obtuse or rounded at base, slender-petioled : pedicels glabrous : 

 drupes smooth and glabrous : nutlets thick-walled, carinate or thickened on the back, 

 sometimes firmly coalescent. — Nov. Gen. & Spec. iii. 278, t. 259; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2937; 

 Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxx. t. 217; Torr. in Emory Rep. t. 7 ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 453, in part. 

 Daphnidostaphylis pungens, Klotzsch, 1. c. — Arizona and S. Utah to California. (Mex.) 



Var. platyphylla, the commoner Manzanita in California, especially northward, 

 reaching Oregon, Nevada, and Utah : leaves pale or glaucescent, oblong to orbicular, 1 to 2 

 inches long, commonly muticous. — Arctostaphylos glauca, Watson, Bot. King, 210, &c., not 

 Lindl. A. pungens, Gray, 1. c, partly. 

 § 3. Xylococcus. Leaves coriaceous and evergreen, entire : drupe not warty, 



ovoid-globose, with a thin pulp and a thick completely solid woody or bony 1-6- 



celled putamen. — Xylococcus, Nutt. 1. c. vii. 258. 



A. glauca, Lindl. Erect, 8 to 24 feet high, wholly glabrous except the glandular-pubes- 

 cent slender pedicels : leaves, &.C., as of A. pungens, var. platyphylla, or paler : drupes half an 

 inch or more in diameter, minutely glandular, sometimes viscid, with a thin flesh around 

 the solid mucronate-apiculate stone : seeds and cells 4 to 6, or by abortion fewer, very 

 small in proportion to the size of the putamen. — Bot. Reg., under 1791 ; Gray, Bot. Calif. 

 i. 454 — California, commoner from Monterey southward. Except by the larger and solid 

 drupe hardly distinguishable from the common glaucous variety of A. pungens. 



