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ERICACEAE 
1. A. glauca Lindl. Great-berried Manzanita. Robust shrub 2 
to 4 m. high; leaves roundish to elliptical or broadly ovate, 3 to 4.2 cm. 
long; flowers white; nutlets consolidated into a single stone: berry 10 
to 16 mm. broad.—Mt. Diablo to S. Cal. 
2. A. viscida Parry. White-leaf Manzanita. Shrub 1 to 3 m. 
high; leaves elliptic to orbicular, 1.8 to 3.6 cm. long; pedicel glandular- 
hairy; branchlets and peduncles very glaucous; flowers light pink; berry 
deep red, 6 to 8 mm. broad.—Sierra Nevada and inner n. Coast Range 
foothills. 
3. A. manzanita Parry. Parry Manzanita. Large shrub 2 to 5 m. 
high; branchlets finely puherulent; leaves elliptic to oblong, 2.4 to 3.6 
cm. long; flowers white; berry 8 to 10 mm. broad.—Dry hills and moun¬ 
tains. The berries are used in making jellies, while the wood, which is 
used for fuel, has a very high heat value. 
4. A. sensitiva Jepson. Fire Manzanita. Slender erect shrub 5.7 to 
14 dm. high ; leaves roundish, abruptly acute or apiculate, finely reticu¬ 
late-veiny beneath, 10 to 14 (or 20) mm. long; berry oblong, 4 mm. long. 
---Mt. Tamalpais; Santa Cruz Mts. 
5. A. columbiana Piper. Shrub 1.5 to 2 m. high; branchlets bristly 
and also finely tomentose and usually glandular, very foliaceous; leaves 
ovate to oblong, obtuse to subcordate at base, 2.4 to 4.8 cm. long; berry 
depressed, 6 to 8 mm. broad.—Along the coast, Marin Co. n. 
6. A. canescens Eastw. Whitish .shrub 8.6 to 17 dm. high; leaves 
ovate; branchlets, peduncles and leaves minutely white-pubescent; ovary 
woolly.—Humboldt Co. to the Santa Cruz and Santa Lucia mountains. 
7. A. glandulosa Eastw. Eastwood Manzanita. Low shrub, com¬ 
monly 5.7 to 8.6 dm. high; branchlets, peduncles and pedicels with a 
dusky more or less glandular tomentum; leaves ovate to elliptic, 2.4 to 
4.2 cm. long; ovary glandular-hairy.—On broken sandstone, San Diego 
Co. and San Gabriel Mts., n. to Mendocino Co. 
8. A. tomentosa (Pursh) Lindl. Similar to no. 7; leaves rather 
densely tomentose beneath.—Monterev Co. 
5. GAULTHERIA L. 
Shrubby evergreen plants with spicy aromatic leaves and flowers in a 
raceme. Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla oval-urnshaped, 5-toothed at the narrow 
orifice. Stamens 10, each anther with pair of spreading awns at sum¬ 
mit. Ovary 5-celled. Pod inclosed bv the enlarged and fleshy calyx. 
(Dr. Gaultier, Canadian physician and botanist.) 
1. G. shallon Pursh. Salal. Stems erect, 8 to 20 dm. high; leaves 
ovate or orbicular, finely serrate; pedicels declined; corolla pink or pink¬ 
ish-white, 8 mm. long; fruit purple or black.—Abundant in forests of 
the Redwood belt. 
6. VACCINIUM L. 
Bushes. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, the limb 5-lobed. Corolla 
globular or urnshaped, 5-toothed. Anthers commonly 2-awned on the 
back, each cell prolonged into a tube opening at the tip by a pore. Fruit 
a berry crowned with the vestiges of the calyx-teeth. (Classical Latin 
name of the bilberry.) 
1. V. ovatum Pursh. California Huckleberry. Evergreen shrub 
