HEATH FAMILY. Ericaceae. 



__ _ y A pretty little shrub, growing in mouiv 



Western Winter- '. 6 



green tain woods, a few inches nigh, with woody 



Gauithtria stems, spreading on the ground, and 



ovatifdlia glossy foliage, almost hiding the flowers. 



Summer Tlle twigs are fuzzy and the leaves are 



Northwest dark rich-green, the small flowers white 



and the berries red. 



An attractive little shrub, usually from 

 Salal, Shallon 



Gaulthtria one to tnree ^ eet ni S n with handsome 



Shdllon foliage. The leaves are finely toothed, 



White, pink dark olive-green, leathery and rather 



Spring, summer g i ossy pa i e on t h e under side, and the 

 Northwest .-, 



waxy flowers hang gracefully on a stiffly 



bending flower-stem, which is sticky and hairy and often 

 bright red, with large, scaly, red bracts at the base of the 

 pedicels and smaller bracts halfway up. The flowers are 

 nearly half an inch long, with a yellowish calyx, covered 

 with reddish hairs, and a white corolla, tipped with pink, 

 or all pink; the filaments hairy, with orange anthers. 

 There is often so much bright pinkish-red about the flower- 

 stems and bracts that the effect, with the waxy flowers 

 and dark foliage, is very pretty. This plant often grows in 

 great quantities, thickly covering the floor of the redwood 

 forests. It is called Salal by the Oregon Indians, who value 

 the black, aromatic berries as an important article of food. 

 There are many kinds of Azalea, of North America and 

 Asia, mostly tall, branching shrubs; leaves alternate, 

 thin, deciduous; flowers large, in terminal clusters, de- 

 veloping from cone-like, scaly buds; calyx small, five-parted; 

 corolla funnel-form, five-lobed or somewhat two-lipped; 

 stamens five, rarely ten, protruding, usually drooping; 

 style long, slender, drooping; capsule more or less oblong. 



One of the most beautiful western 



Western Azalea shmbs from two to ten feet hi h l oose l y 



Az&lea occiden- J . 



t&lis (Rhodo- branching, with splendid clusters of 



dendron) flowers and rich-green leaves, almost 



White smooth, from one to four inches long, with 



umm ^ r a small, sharp tip and clustered at the 



ends of the twigs. The corolla is from one 



and a half to three inches long, slightly irregular, white 



with a broad stripe of warm-yellow on the upper petal 



and often all the petals striped with pink. The western 



342 



