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The West American Scientist — X. 



106 



LOBELIACEAE. 



California botany. This manzanita Is 

 common from Mexico to Oregon, 

 through the foothills and mountains, in 

 dry, rocky soil. The fruit is a dull r <\, 

 mealy, and pleasantly sub-acid, well- 

 named by the Mexicans the "little ap- 

 ple," though botanically a near rela- 

 tive of the cranberry instead of ih& 

 apple. The Indians gather the fru.'t in 

 September in great quantities for food, 

 and it is eaten freely by animals and 

 birds. It makes excellent jelly, f>nd 

 the finest flavored vinegar, as clear as 

 water, may be prepared from the fruit. 

 The numerous other varieties of man- 

 zanitas all produce more or less simi- 

 lar edible fruit, and are all mos ly 

 small, straggly evergreen shrubs, 

 graceful in their own peculiar way, and 

 bearing in earliest spring time a pro- 

 fusion of lovely white blossoms, some- 

 times blushing a rosy red in a snow- 

 storm. 



ARCTOSTAPHYLOS PRINGLEI Parry. 

 "Young branches, including the petioles 

 and margins of the leaves, copiously cili- 

 ate-pubescent, with mixed glandular hairs 

 leaves short, petiolate, glaucous, minutely 

 net-veined, with conspicuous mid-nerves, 

 ovate to broadly subcordate, abruptly 

 short mucronate; inflorescence closely 

 paniculate from a thickened base, inter- 

 mixed with budscales, indicating a late 

 §Uva-ursi G syn fl 2 27; Daphnidosta- flowering per od.^racemose branches slen 



phylis Klotzsch. 



Gciins NEMACLADIIS Nuttnll. 



NEMACLADUS CAPILLARIS Greene. 

 NEMACLADUS LONGIFLORUS A. Gry. 

 NEMACLADUS PINNATIFIDUS Greene 

 NEMACLADUS RAMOS1SS1MUS Nutt. 

 NEMACLADUS RUKESCENS Greene. 

 NEMACLADUS TENUISSIMUS Greene. 



Gpiium DOWMNGIA Torrey. 

 DOWNINGIA PuLCHELLA Torr. 



LOBELIA SPLENDENS Willd. 



PALMERELLA DEBILIS A. Gray. 

 PARISHELLA CALIFORNICA A. Gray. 



CAMPANULACEAE. 



Nuttall. 



Genus GITHOPS1S 



GlTHOPSIS DIFFUSA A. Gray. 

 GITHOPSIS SPECULARIOIDES 



Nutt. 



Genus SPECULARIA Heister. 



SPECULARIA BIFLORA A. Gray. 

 SPECULARIA PERFOLIATA A./ D. C. 



ERICACEAE. 



Genus ARBUTUS Tournefort. 



ARBUTUS MENZIESII Pursh. Madrono. A 

 sun-passingly beautiful tree, with white flow- 

 ers and orange-colored berries. Sometimes 

 grows 100 feet high. 



Genus ARCTOSTAPHYLOS Auanson. 



AUVA-URSIL 



Bear berry — not reach in? So. Calif. 



ARCTOSTAPHYLOS TOMENTOSA Lindl. 

 Wooly Manzanita. 

 da 10 

 ARCTOSTAPHYLOS MANZANITA Parry. 

 The common Manzanita of California. The 

 berries make excellent sauce, and the finest 

 quality of Vinegar; much eaten by Indians. 



Manzanita is a Spanish narr»e, t'&3 di- 

 minutive of manzana (apple), hence 

 means a "little apple." The name is 

 generally applied to all the species of 

 Arctostaphylos, and a writer in Mee- 

 han's Monthly (3:85) uses the name Ar- 

 taatus Menziesii. The manzanita one? 

 so common on the mesas back of Syn 

 Diego, is Arctostaphylos bicolor. The 

 shrub to which the name more especial- 

 ly belongs in California, and which 

 sometimes becomes a small tree, is that 

 named Arctostaphylos manzanita by 

 Dr. Charles Christopher Parry — the 



der. thickly covered a^ wei 1 as <he brae s, 

 pedicles and calyx, with ciliate and 

 glandular hairs, bracts lanceolate mem- 

 braneous, petaloid, deciduous, bracteoles 

 linear nearly */> as long, pedicels slender, 

 divaricate, 4-5 times as long as the bracts, 

 calyx ciliate-glandular, corolla smooth, 

 broadly nrceolate: ovary and fr. glandu- 

 lar, hisp'd, nutlets irregularly coalescent, 

 5-7-celled."— Purry. Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci. 

 ii. 494 CNov. 2. 1887). 



Variety? drupacea Parry Ca ac b 2 495: 

 — ' Differing from the above only in the 

 completely consolidated stone, deeply 

 sculptured, & usually with a conspicuous 

 i-sided furrow. Mts east of San Diego; 

 Or 543; S 1886, distributed as A glauca." 



§Xvlococcus G 

 ARCTOSTAPHYLOS GLAUCA Lindl. The 

 great-berried Manzanita. 



Py Dav ac pr 4 34; Ca ac b 2 495 ;da to 

 ARCTOSTAPHYLOS BICOLOR a' Gray. 



Densely branched irregular shrub, 3-5 

 ft high, with brown shreddy bark; leaves 

 dull green above, whitish tomentose be- 



A. pungens of the earlier writers on neath; fls in condensed racemes, w with 



