HEATH FAMILY. Ericaceae. 



Western Winter- 

 green 



Gaulthtria 

 ovali folia 

 White 

 Summer 

 Northwest 



Salal, Shallon 



Gaultheria 

 Shallon 

 White, pink 

 Spring, summer 

 Northwest 



A pretty little shrub, growing in moun- 

 tain woods, a few inches high, with woody 

 stems, spreading on the ground, and 

 glossy foliage, almost hiding the flowers. 

 The twigs are fuzzy and the leaves are 

 dark rich-green, the small flowers white 

 and the berries red. 



An attractive little shrub, usually from 

 one to three feet high, with handsome 

 foliage. The leaves are finely toothed, 

 dark olive-green, leathery and rather 

 glossy, pale on the under side, and the 

 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 

 shrubs, from two to ten feet high, loosely 

 branching, with splendid clusters oi 

 flowers and rich-green leaves, almost 

 smooth, from one to four inches long, with 

 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 

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Western Azalea 

 Azd.Ua occiden- 

 talis (Rhodo- 

 dendron) 

 White 

 Summer 

 Cal., Oreg. 



