■ ERICACEAE. 397 



siesii on the tranches : leaves from oblong to lanceolate, 2 or 3 inches long, rather pale or 

 thinnish, entire or minutely denticulate : ovary (as in A. Menziesii) glabrous. — A. Xalapen- 

 sis, Sargent, Census Rep. Forest Trees, 97. A. Menziesii, Rothrock in Wheeler Eep. vi. 

 183, &c. — Mountains of S. Arizona, Thurber, Rothrock, Sargent & Engelmann, Pringle. 



Var. Texana. Low tree, with older bark mostly deciduous in the manner of A. Men- 

 ziesii: leaves from lanceolate-oblong to oval or ovate, more coriaceous, 2 or 3 inches 

 long : ovary pubescent. — A. Texana, Buckley, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1861 , 460 ; Sargent, 1. c. 

 A. Menziesii, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 108. A. Xalapensis in part, Watson, Proc. Am. 

 Acad, xviii. 111. — Limestone hills of W. Texas, first coll. by Wright. Passes into similar 

 Mexican forms on one hand, and is too like A. Menziesii on the other. 



5. ARCTOSTAPHYLOS, Adans. 



A. nummularia, Gray, p. 28. This grows 2 to 6 feet high, has been collected on the 

 Mendocino plains by Pringle, and near Santa Cruz by Anderson, by the latter with fruit ; an 

 oblong drupe, only 2 lines long, the thiu pulp dry at maturity, and the whole splitting 

 up into the (mostly 4) thin-shelled nutlets. On this account, Parry, in monograph of 

 Arctostaphylos, in Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. iv. 30, makes this the type of a new 

 section, Micrococcus. 



A. tricolor, Gkat, p. 29. Add syn. . A. Veatchii, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 19. Also 

 A. Clevelandi, p. 29, & Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 61, appears to be an abnormal and autumn- 

 flowering state of this species. 

 A. polifolia, in § 4. Comaristaphylis, to be replaced by 



A . diversif olia, Parry , in herb. Shrub 6 to 1 5 feet high : herbage minutely canescent- 

 tomentose when young, the inflorescence sometimes hirsute-pubescent and with some small 

 glandular bristles : leaves glabrate, firm-coriaceous, short-petioled ; those of flowering 

 branches mostly spatulate-lanceolate, entire or spinulose-serrulate ; of sterile shoots oblong or 

 oval, either finely or coarsely spinulose-dentate : racemes solitary or clustered, loose : bracts 

 lanceolate-subulate : calyx 5-parted into subulate divisions : corolla ovate : filaments long- 

 bearded at base : drupe only 2 lines in diameter and with solid 5-celled putamen. — A. arguta, 

 var. diversifolia, Parry in Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. iv. 35, not A. arguta, Zucc, which 

 has a different calyx. — Southern borders of California, below San Diego and adjacent 

 Lower California, 0. X. Sanford, Parry, Orcutt. 



A . oppositifolia, Parry. An anomalous species : leaves opposite or in threes, linear, 

 entire, with revolute margins, much resembling those of Andromeda polifolia : flowers pa- 

 niculate : corolla globular, a line or two long : ovary canescent : drupe smooth, depressed- 

 globose ; the putamen separable at maturity into five perfectly or incompletely 2-celled nutlets. 

 — Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. iv. 36. A. polifolia, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 108, not 

 HBK. — On or very near the boundary between San Diego Co. and Lower California, and 

 southward, Parry, Orcutt, Pringle, &c. 



7. QAULTHERIA, Kalm. 



G. Myrsinites, Hook., p. 30. Strike out the last sentence, and add: Glabrous: leaves 

 oval or rounded, not ovate, mostly only half-inch long : corolla depressed-campanulate, little 

 surpassing the calyx. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 84. 



Gr. ovatifolia, Gray, 1. t. Larger, with ascending branches ; and with some at length 

 rusty-colored hairs, at least on the calyx : leaves broadly ovate or even subcordate, the lar- 

 gest an inch and a half long, more serrulate : corolla campanulate, double the length of the 

 calyx- lobes. — Cascade Mountains, British Columbia to Oregon, Lyall, E. Hall, S. Watson, 

 Suksdorf, the last of whom indicated the characters. 



10. LEUCOTHOE, Don. 



L. Catesbeei, Gray, p. 34. The words " (4 to 7 inches long) " in line 3, are misplaced : 

 they relate to the leaves. To this, and not to L. acuminata, belongs Andromeda acuminata, 

 Smith, Exot. Bot. t. 89. 



