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A. LAURiFOLiA, L. f. Suppl. 2-38, may be Primus Caroliniana, but is indeterminable. 



A. LA^•CEOLATA, Lam. Diet. i. i21, is possibly the same, but has no valid foundation, having 



been described solely from a sterile branch of some cultivated shrub of uncertain origin. 



A. AcADiENSis, L., founded on a plu:ase cited from Tournefort, vvhich cannot be found, is 



wholly obscure. 

 .^. Menziesii, Pursh. (MadroSa.) Tree 80 to 100 feet high, with trunk a foot or two 

 in diameter in northern habitats, a shrub in its southern : bark close and smooth by exfoli- 

 ation, turning brownish-red: leaves oval or oblong, entire or serrulate, paler beneath, 3 to 

 5 inches long: spieate racemes minutely pubescent: corolla globular, white : berries dry, 

 somewhat drupaceous, liardly eatable, orange-color. — Hook. FI. ii. 36; Xutt. Sylv. iii. 42, 

 t. 95; Xewberry in Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 23, fig. ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 452. A. procera, Dougl. 

 Bot. Reg. t. 1753. .1. lam-ifolia, Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxx. t. 67 (small-leaved ilexican form), 

 not L. f. A. Texana, Buckley in Proc. Acad. Philad. Dec. 1861 ; Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 

 V. S. 17, the small-leaved form of Texas and Mexico, possibly distinct, but apparently a 

 mere form of the Pacific species. — Paget Scmnd and southward through the coast-region 

 ^f California to Arizona?, and W. Tejuis. (Jlex.) 



AROIXDSTAPHYLOS, Adans. Bearbekry, Manza>ita. (Com- 

 posed of (ioy.TO,-, a bear, and oracpv/j], grape or berry.) — Shrubs or small trees ; 

 with alternate leaves, and small mostly white or rose-colored flowers, chiefly in 

 racemes, spikes, or panicles, both bracteate and bracteolate. Flowers nearly as in 

 the preceding genus, but less rarely 4-merous, and ovules solitary in the cells, 

 which become bony nutlets or combine into a few-several-celled stone ; the drupes 

 somewhat bitter or astringent, or in Californian species subacid and more or 

 less edible. Leaves in the erect species almost always more or less vertical by a 

 twisting of the petiole. Fl. spring. — Gray in Facif. E. Rep. iv. 116 ; Benth. & 

 Hook. Gen. ii. 5S1. ' 



§ 1. Arctous. Flowers preceding the thin and deciduous leaves: fruit juicy. 



_A. alpina, Spreng. Depressed or prostrate and tufted, rising little above the ground, 

 glabrate : leaves obovate with a tapering base, conspicuously rugose-reticulated, ciliate 

 when young : flowers few in a fascicle from a terminal lax-scaly bud : drupe rather large, 

 black, containing 4 or 5 stones. — .Syst. U. 2i>~ ; DC. Prodr. vii. 584. Arbutus alpina, L. ; 

 PI. Dan. t. 73 ; Engl. Bot. t. 2030. — Arctic America, south to Newfoundland and alpine 

 summits in New England ; also northern Rocky Mountains and Aleutian Islands. (Arctic- 

 alpine round the Old World.) 



§ 2. UvA-uRSi. Leaves coriaceous and evergreen, in erect species inclined to be 



vertical, and the bark mahogany-color : drupe smooth, meal}' ; its nutlets separate 



or separable, or irregularly coalescent : bracts persistent and usually becoming 



rigid. — Xerohotrys, Nutt. in Traus. Am. Phil. Soc. n. ser. viii. 267. Daphnido- 



staphylis, Klotzsch in Linn. xxiv. 80. 



* Depressed-trailing or creeping, green, glabrous or minutely pubescent, no bristly hairs : flowers 

 rather few in simple small clusters, 2 lines long: ovary and reddish fruit glabrous: nutlets 1- 

 ner\-ed on the back. 



. A. Uva-lirsi, Spreng. (Bearberey.) Leaves oblong-spatulate, retuse, an inch or less 

 long, tapering into a petiole: fruit insipid. — A. officmalis, Wimmer, Koch. Arbutus Ui-a- 

 ursi, L. Fl. Lapp. t. 6 ; Bigel. Med. Bot. t. 0. Daphnidostaphi/lis Fendhriana, Klotzsch in 

 Linn. xxiv. 81. — Rocky or sandy ground, Penn. to New Mexico, N. California, and north 

 to the arctic circle. (Arctic-montane Eu. & Asia.) 

 A ■ Nevadensis. Leaves obovate or oval to laneeolate-spatulate, euspidate-mucronate, 

 thicker, abruptly petioled : berries subacid. — A. pungens, var. (small ^Manzanita), Gray, 

 Bot. Calif, i. 453. — Sierra Nevada, California, common at 8-10,000 feet. Rising only a 

 few inches, or at most a foot above the surface of the ground, from rigid procumbent main 

 stems: apparently there are no transitions into A. ^lun^cns, which is sometimes foimd at 

 the same altitudes. 



