184 BOTANY. 



Arctostapiiylos tomentosa, DougL— Shrub, 10° high; branchlets, 

 younger petioles, and pedicels hispidly pubescent; leaves oval, thick, 

 entire; flowers in short, close racemes, white, pale red, or red; calyx-lobes 

 ciliate, reflexed after fall of the fruit; fruit pah- yellowish-red, hairy when 

 young (no1 warty), several-seeded. One of the several shrubs known as 

 manzanita (or little apple) by the natives. The berries of this are used to 

 form a cooling acid drink— Mount Graham, Arizona, at 7,000 feet. 



Arctostaphylos glauca, Lindl— "8-20 feet high, much branched"; 

 leaves rigidly coriaceous, oblong to round, glaucous, sometimes slightly 

 cordate; flowers flesh-colored; pedicels glandular-hairy, slender; fruit 

 large, enclosing a 5-celled stone 6" in diameter. Leaves twisting on then- 

 petioles become vertical. — Nevada and Utah. 



Pyrola secunda, L.— Shady ravines at Twin Lakes, Colorado, 10,500 

 feet (739). 



Pyrola minor, L.— Alpine ravines, Colorado, at 10,500 feet (740). 



Pyrola rotundifolia, L., var. uliginosa, Gray.— Twin Lakes, Colo- 

 rado, at 9,500 feet (738). 



Moneses uniflora, Gray.— Twin Lakes, Colorado (743). 



Pterospora Andromedea, Nutt— Mount Graham, Arizona, at 9,000 

 feet (413). 



PRIMULACE^E. 



Primula Parryi, Gray.— Mountain ravines, Colorado, at 10-12,000 

 feet (734). 



Primula angustifolia, Ton-. (Ann. N. Y. Lye. 1, p. 34, t. 3, fig. 3).— 

 Root thick ; many fibrous rootlets ; radical leaves obtuse, lanceolate to 

 spatulate, entire, 6"-2' long; scape 1-3' high, naked or with a few bracts; 

 calyx-tub*' cylindrical and with the obtuse, lanceolate, subulate teetli as 

 Imu- as the tube of the purple, sub-campanulate corolla (sometimes a 

 little shorter); corolla 6-9" wide; .stamens inserted low down in the tube, 

 the shori filaments net more than one-fourth as long as the oblong anthers; 

 stigma broadly clavate or globose.— Colorado (73G); alpine. 



Primula farinosa, L.— South Park, Colorado (737). 



Andeosace skptentrionalis, L.— Colorado (35(5, 358, 359); Santa 

 IV- (51). Collected also by Dr. Loew in Arizona, but locality not given. 



