IMPORTANT WESTERN BROWSE PLANTS 
Ficurn 36.—Western azalea (Azaiea occidentalis), a common species of moist 
woods in California and southwestern Oregon, with showy, fragrant flowers. It 
Sometimes causes sheep losses: A and C, leaves; B, twig with fruiting capsules; 
D, flowering spray 
quently inaccessible to domestic animals. Their herbage is normally 
rejected by livestock and such economic value as they possess seems 
to be confined to their slope-protective, erosion-preventing qualities, 
their ornamental value, and to the fact that ptarmigan are very fond 
of the flowers. Mertens cassiope (C’. mertensiana), much the com- 
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