210 BOTANY. 



angled, green; leaves ovate, serrate, very glabrous and shining; peduncles 

 1-flowered, solitary. Var. miceophyllum. Hook. Leaves 2-3" long. — Stems 

 &-l° high, very diffusely branched, from running rootstocks; the leaves are 

 2-6" long and often rather narrowly oblong, acute at each end ; flowers very 

 small, scarcely 1" in length, nearly white ; fruit small, about 2" in diameter, 

 light red. Abundant in the Uintas, in the shade of pines at 8-9,000 feet alti- 

 tude ; in flower and fruit, July and August. Reported from Sitka and the 

 Rocky Mountains of British America, (in latitude 52°,) Wyoming and Colo- 

 rado. (736.) 



Aectostaphylos Uva-Ursi, Spreng. The ascending branches 4-6' high, 

 forming dense patches ; the "Kinnikinnick" of the western Indians. From 

 New Jersey and Wisconsin northward to the Arctic Ocean, while in the 

 Rocky Moimtains and westward it extends from latitude 63° to Northern 

 California and Colorado ; Council Grrove, Kansas, (Abert.) Ruby and Hun- 

 tington Valleys, Nevada, and frequent in the Uintas and in Bear River Val- 

 ley ; 6-8,000 feet altitude ; in fruit, July-September. (737.) 



Aectostaphylos glauca, Lindl. DC. Prodr. 7. 586. Leaves glaucous, 

 glabrous, ovate-oblong, entire, acute, coriaceous, very obtuse at base ; racemes 

 short, compound, with scalelike bracts ; fruit ovate. — An evergreen branching 

 shrub, 2-10° high, with red exfohating bark; leaves vertical and alike upon 

 both surfaces, 1-lj' long; flowers light rose-color; fruit flattened, black, 

 smooth, 3-4" in diameter, filled with triangular rough stony seeds. The 

 specimens from the Uintas (the most eastern locality in which it has been 

 collected) are from a low form, but 2-3° high, somewhat pubescent, and with 

 variable leaves, broadly ovate, oval or obovate upon the same branch, and 

 subcordate or acute at base. They are distinguished from smooth forms of 

 A. tomentosa by the perfectly glabrous fruit, but approach the A. pungens of 

 the herbariums. The plant has, however, perfectly the habit, the smooth red 

 bark and exceedingly crooked shrubby growth of A. glauca, without any re- 

 semblance whatever to A. Uva-Ursi, with which the "prostrate" A. pungens 

 is compared. Oregon, California, Western Arizona, (Bigelow,) and in the 

 Wahsatch, (Mrs. Carrington.) Washoe Mountains, Nevada, (in flower, April 

 and May,) and in the Uintas ; 6-9,000 feet altitude. (738.) 



Gaultheria Myesinites, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Ainer. 2. 35, t. 129. Low ; 

 branches c^spitose, rooting; leaves broadly ovate, ciliate-serrate ; flowers 

 solitary, with several ovate bracts, the subcampanulate corolla scarcely exceed- 



