314 ERICACEAE. 



coalescent, usually 2 or 3 consolidated (indicated by the number of cells) with 

 intermediate (1-celled) ones. 



Covering large areas of the high dry Coast Range slopes, where gregarious 

 remarkably uniform in height, about 4 to 6- ft. high. 



5. A. stanfordiana Parry. Myacoma Manzanita. Erect not widely 

 branched shrub 3 to 5 ft. high with very slender dark red stems, perfectly 

 glabrous in all its parts; leaves bright green on both faces, narrowly ovate 

 to oblanceolate, most frequently acute at both ends, petioled, 1 to l 1 /^ in. long, 

 very erect ; flowers abundant, in elongated racemes, forming an open panicle, 

 light pink to lilac; corolla seldom over 3 lines long, very frequently with an 

 obscure constriction just below the middle; calyx reddish, only half the diameter 

 of the corolla, somewhat impressed as it were within the truncate or subcordate 

 base of the latter and thus partly concealed; ovary glabrous; nutlets broader 

 than high, usually two or more coherent, rarely all united into a single irregular 

 stone. 



Howell Mt., Mt. St. Helena and northward to the neighborhood of Red Mt. 

 east of Ukiah. A beautiful and rather rare shrub (cf. Erythea, vii, 111). 



6. A. glauca Lindl. Great-berried Manzanita. Shrubby or almost 

 arborescent, 9 to 25 ft. high, with a trunk often 1 ft. in diameter; foliage 

 glabrous and glaucous; leaves elliptical to broadly ovate or oblong, entire, acute 

 or obtuse at apex, obtuse, truncate or even subcordate at base, 1*4 to 2 in. 

 long; petioles 3 to 4 lines long; panicle broader than high, frequently very 

 compact; pedicels glandular-pubescent; flowers white, rather large; fruit usually 

 viscid, pulp scanty; nutlets completely consolidated into a solid smooth stone. 



Interior species : Mt. Diablo, Los Gatos and southward. Also iu the Sierra 

 Nevada. 



8. GAULTHERIA 



Ours a fruticose evergreen, with spicy-aromatic leaves and flowers in racemes. 

 Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla oval-urn-shaped, 5-toothed at the narrow orifice. Stamens 

 10; anthers with a pair of spreading awns from the summit of each cell; fila- 

 ments dilated at base. Ovary 5-celled; stigma entire. Capsule loculicidal, 

 deeply umbilicate, enclosed by the enlarged and fleshy calyx. (Dr. Gaultier, 

 Canadian physician and botanist.) 



1. G. shallon Pursh. Salal. Stems erect or ascending, 1 to 5 ft. high; 

 leaves ovate or orbicular, slightly cordate at base, finely serrate, 2 to 4 in. long; 

 petioles 1 to 2 lines long; racemes axillary or terminal, glandular viscid, 3 to 6 

 in. long; bracts scaly, ovate, concave, often reddish; pedicels declined, bearing 

 bracts below the middle; corolla pink or pinkish white, 4 lines long; fruit 

 berry like, globose, black. 



1 1' I'd wood region from the Santa Lucia Mts., Redwood Peak (Alameda Co.), 

 and Marin Co. to Humboldt Co. and northward into the Douglas Fir region of 

 Oregon and Washington. Commonly abundant and covering thickly the forest 

 floor. Mar.-May. 



9. VACCINIUM L. 



Shrubs or bushes, or on high mountain peaks or ridges, dwarfish or depressed 



w ly plants. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, the limb 5-parted or -lobed, 



nr entire. Corolla globular or urn-shaped to oblong-cylindric, 5 (or 4)-toothed. 

 Stamens L0 (or N); anthers (except in V. ovation) bearing on the back two 

 upwardly curved awns, each cell prolonged at apex into a tube-like appendage 

 opening at the tip by a pore. Ovary i or 5-celled, the cells several to many- 



