Arctostaphylos. ERICACEJE. 453 



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

 hirsute: fruit red, minutely puberulent or becoming glabrous, not viscid. — Bot. 

 Reg. t. 1791 j Hook. FL ii.'t. 130, & Bot. Mag. t. 3220. A. cordifolia, Lindl 1. c, 

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

 Xerobotrys tomentosus, argtdus, & cordifolius, Xutt. 1. c. 



Dry hills, from Santa Barbara Co. northward to Puget Sound. This is a common .lA««:«/dVn 

 through the western part of the State, running into many forms as to foliage, bristles, &e. Fruit 

 used for a cooling subacid drink. 



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 minutely tomeutose. 



— Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 366. 



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

 Flowers small, white. Fruit unknown. 



* * Ovary glabrous ; no hispid liairs on tlie branches and petioles. 



4. A. Uva-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 Bearbcmj, and the 

 Kiiiiiikinick of the Western Indians. 



5. A. pumila, Xutt. Erect, dwarf, tufted, minutely tomentose-pubescent : 

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

 nate-tipped, pule : flowers as in the preceding but smaller : hlaments sparingly 

 bearded or nearly naked. — A. pumila & A. acuta, Xutt. 1. c. Daphnidostaphylis 

 pumila, Klotzsch. 



Around Monterey, Nuilall, 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 

 1 hi ids of an inch long. 



6. A. pungens, IIJ'.K. Erect or at high elevations procumbent, minutelj 

 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: Mowers crowded in very short ra- 

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

 turning dull red. — 1IKK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. iii. I. 259 ; Torr. in Emory Rep. t. 7. 

 Arbutus pungens, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey, 144. Andromeda (!) venulosa, DC. 

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

 Kxp. 21(1. Xi-rnbotrys venvlosus, Xutt. 1. c. ; Benth. PL Hartw. 321. Daphnido- 

 staphylis pungens & />. Hookeri, Klotzsch. 



Dry and barren ridges everywhere, both on tho coast and at great elevations, extending north 

 into Oregon, east to Utah and New Mexico, and smith into Mexico. This, tin- common I 

 tanUa, is oxc tingly variable, ini lulling, as ii must, the Small Manzanita, which al high eleva- 

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

 tuous branches, &c, rising to eight or ten feel in height ; the shorl trunk sometimes a foot in 

 diametorat base, but divided mar tic ground. Some of these forms, especially in the foot-hills 

 and Sierra, with branches nearly or quite glabrous, and with brood and larger, pale or glaucous 

 and oval or ovate leaves, commonly destitute of the pungent tip, are usually to .1. 



- i, but that is distinguished by its remarkable fnut. Tho fruits of the present speciosaro 



ii"i larger than those of ./. tonu ntosa, oulj I lines in diameter, tho nutlets only a lii ■ two in 



diameter, n parable, or one or t«" paii 3 cohering, the putamou of less thickness than the cavity. 



The specific 111 pungens, is sold appropriate ha the Culifornion plant Tho fruit is eaten 



la Indians and l» u 



