HEATH FAMILY. Ericaceae. 
A pretty little shrub, growing in moun- 
Western Winter- . : ‘ . 
tain woods, a few inches high, with woody 
reen 
Goultheria stems, spreading on the ground, and 
ovatifolia glossy foliage, almost hiding the flowers. 
gee The twigs are fuzzy and the leaves are 
Summer ; ‘ 
Worthwest dark rich-green, the small flowers white 
and the berries red. 
Salal, Shallon An attractive little shrub, usually from 
Ginliheeie one to three feet high, with handsome 
Shéllon foliage. The leaves are finely toothed, 
White, pink dark olive-green, leathery and rather 
Spring, summer 
Mavtharict glossy, pale on the under side, and the 
waxy flowers hang gracefully on a stiffly 
bending flower-stem, which is sticky and hairy and often 
‘bright red, with large, scaly, red bracts at the base of the 
pedicels and smaller bracts halfway up. The flowers are 
nearly half an inch long, with a yellowish calyx, covered 
with reddish hairs, and a white corolla, tipped with pink, 
or all pink; the filaments hairy, with orange anthers. 
There is often so much bright pinkish-red about the flower- 
stems and bracts that the effect, with the waxy flowers 
and dark foliage, is very pretty. This plant often grows in 
great quantities, thickly covering the floor of the redwood 
forests. Itiscalled Salal by the Oregon Indians, who value 
the black, aromatic berries as an important article of food. 
There are many kinds of Azalea, of North America and 
Asia, mostly tall, branching shrubs; leaves alternate, 
thin, deciduous; flowers large, in terminal clusters, de- 
veloping from cone-like, scaly buds; calyx small, five-parted; 
corolla funnel-form, five-lobed or somewhat two-lipped; 
stamens five, rarely ten, protruding, usually drooping; 
style long, slender, drooping; capsule more or less oblong. 
One of the most beautiful western 
Western Azalea shrubs, from two to ten feet high, loosely 
Azdlea occiden- 
talis (Rhodo- branching, with splendid clusters of 
dendron) flowers and rich-green leaves, almost 
White smooth, from one to four inches long, with 
Summer 
a small, sharp tip and clustered at the 
ends of the twigs. The corolla is from one 
and a half to three inches long, slightly irregular, white 
with a broad stripe of warm-yellow on the upper petal 
and often all the petals striped with pink. The western 
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