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2. A. Andersoni Gray. Branchlets with copious . straight spread- 

 ing hairs or bristles and with glandular indument, the foliage glabrous 

 and glaucous; leaves oblong or varying from broadly to narrowly 

 ovate, obtuse or acute, cuspidate, cordate at base or even auriculate. 

 serrulate below the middle, commonly sessile, or sometimes with a 

 short to nearly 3 in. long petiole; secondary peduncles of the panic le 

 rather long; bracts lanceolate; fruit viscid-pubescent. 



Summit of the Oakland Hills and in the Santa Cruz Mountains 

 near the Big Trees, Anderson. Variable in its characters, some 

 specimens showing entire leaves without the cordate base. 



3. A. tomentosa Dougl. Branching shrub, 4 to 8 ft. high; 

 branchlets usually with a glandular indument and spreading bristly 

 hairs; leaves with a fine close tomentum or glabrous, narrowly or 

 broadly oblong to ovate, from obtuse to subcordate at base, acute or 

 obtuse at apex, entire or rarely spinulose-serrulate, 1 to 2 in. long, on 

 very short petioles; bracts linear-lanceolate, the lower foliaceous; 

 filaments pilose-pubescent; ovary hirsute; nutlets separable or more 

 or less united. 



Coast Ranges toward the coast. The most common species after 

 A. Manzanita, and usually distinguishable from it by the conspicuous 

 foliaceous bracts. 



4. A. Manzanita Parry. Common M an/amta. Shrubby to sub- 

 arborescent, 4 to 12 ft. high, commonly widely branched from the 

 base with long straggling crooked branches; young twigs and pedun- 

 cles finely puberulent; pedicels glabrous; leaves elliptic and obtuse 

 at base and apex, the larger orbicular, the smaller oblong and often 

 tapering from the middle to the acute base and apex, 1 to 2 in. long, 

 ostensibly glabrous; inflorescence paniculate, the panicle as broad or 

 broader than high, pendulous on the short abruptly recurved pedun- 

 cles; flowers commonly white, or tinged with pink; bi'acts small and 

 dry; calyx closely appressed to the base of the corolla and as broad: 

 corolla broadly urn-shaped; stamens with a hairy tuft on back of fila- 

 ments at expanded portion; ovary glabrous; fruit smooth, dull white 

 in early summer, becoming deep reddish browm in late summer and 

 fall; nutlets irregularly coalescent, usually 2 or 3 consolidated (indi- 

 cated by the number of cells) with intermediate (1-celled) ones. 



Beginning to flower in Nov. or Dec. and continuing more or less 

 through the winter. Gregarious and covering large areas of the high 

 dry Coast Range slopes, in such cases remarkably uniform in height, 

 about 4 to ft. high. Less crowded in the foothills, where arborescent 

 individuals 12 to 18 ft. high are often found. 



5. A. Stanfordiana Parry. Myacoma Manzanita. An 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 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 



