ERICACEAE. 379 



8 to 12 inches in diameter; but in California it is occasionally found 

 40 to 50 feet high. The wood is hard, tough, and very close-grained, 

 and is wrought into various articles by the natives. — We have speci- 

 mens of this tree that exactly accord with the character of A. procera, 

 but there are intermediate forms, and there is probably but one arbo- 

 rescent Arbutus on the northwest coast. If A. laurifolia, Linn. f. 

 really came from North America, as is stated in the Supplement 

 (Syst.Yeg. ed. 13), and, as Pursh conjectures, from the Pacific shores, 

 it can hardly be distinct from A. Menziesii, but unfortunately it is not 

 in the Linnsean herbarium, and there are no certain means of iden- 

 tifying it; nor is it clear how it can have been obtained from that 

 part of the continent at so early a day. 



3. ARCTOSTAPHYLOS, Adam. 



1. Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, Spreng. 

 Daphnidostaphylos Fendleri, Klotzsch, in Linnsea, 24, p. 80, fide A. Gray. 

 Hab. Oregon and Washington Territory ; common. 



2. Arctostaphtlos tomentosa, Dough 



Arctostaphylos tomentosa, Dougl. in Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1791 ; DC. Prodr. 7, p. 385 ; 



Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. p. 108. 

 A. cordifolia, Lindl. 1. c. in not. ; DC. I. c. 

 Arbutus tomentosa, Pursh, Fl. 1, p. 282 ; Hook., PL Bor.-Am. 1, p. 36, t. 130 j 



Bot. Mag. t. 2320. 

 Xerobotrys tomentosus & cordifolius, Nutt. in Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. n. ser. 8, 



p. 268. 

 Andromeda f bracteosa, DC. Prodr. 7, p. 607. 



Hab. Puget Sound, and southward to Monterey, California. — This 

 is the Manzanita (little apple) of the Mexicans. It is also called Cali- 

 fornia Whortleberry. It is a bush three or four feet high, growing in 

 bunches. The small, depressed, roundish fruit is at first nearly white, 

 which changes to bright red, and at length to very deep purple. It is 

 hardly edible, but is sometimes eaten by Indians. — Arctostaphylos 

 purnila and A. acuta, Nutt., seem to be only dwarf and small-leaved 

 forms of this variable species. 



