ERICACEAE. 381 



2. Gaultheria Myrsinites, Hook. 

 Gaultheria Mijrsinites, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2, p. 35, t. 129. 



Hab. On the Cascade Mountains, Washington Territory : a form 

 with larger leaves and hispid branchlets. Otherwise there seems to 

 be nothing to distinguish our plant from Hooker's. Some of the 

 leaves are more than an inch and a half long and an inch wide. 



5. MENZIESIA, Smith. 



1, Menziesia ferruginea, Smith. 



Hab. Washington Territory, from Puget Sound and Gray's Har- 

 bor eastward to the Cascade Mountains. — A slender spreading shrub, 

 4 to 8 -feet high, with the habit and foliage of an Azalea, and the 

 flowers of a heath. 



6. AZALEA, Linn. 



1. Azalea occidentalis, Tow. & Gray. 



A. ramulis pubescentibus ; foliis obovato-oblongis vel angusto-oblongis, 

 adultis glabris margine ciliolatis, nervo medio hispidido ; floribus 

 (cdbis) serotinis; calycis lobis oblongis corollce tubo puberulo limbo 

 wquali. 



Azalea occidentalis, Torr. & Gray, in Bot. Whippl. Pacif. B. B. Bep. p. 116 ; Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5005. 

 A. nudiflora, Kellogg, in Proceed. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1, p. 60, non Linn. 

 A. calendulacea, Benth. PI. Hartw. p. 321, non Michx. 

 Rhododendron calendulaceum, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech, p. 362, non Torr. 



Hab. Along streams, southern part of Oregon, and along the 

 Upper Sacramento; also in the vicinity of the Bay of San Fran- 

 cisco. 



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