. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 762 The Manzanitas stalk is covered with long whitish hairs and is i cm. long or less. The flowers are in short panicles with conspicuous lanceolate leaf-hke bracts, which are usually longer than the short hairy pedi- cels and taper-pointed corolla. The ovary is densely hairy. The fruit, ripening in August, is hairy and about 6 mm. in diameter, yellowish to red; pulp relatively thick; nutlets easily separable or united in
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 762 The Manzanitas stalk is covered with long whitish hairs and is i cm. long or less. The flowers are in short panicles with conspicuous lanceolate leaf-hke bracts, which are usually longer than the short hairy pedi- cels and taper-pointed corolla. The ovary is densely hairy. The fruit, ripening in August, is hairy and about 6 mm. in diameter, yellowish to red; pulp relatively thick; nutlets easily separable or united into pairs. The wood is hard, tough and strong, close-grained, reddish or dark brown, and heavy; it takes a fine polish and is used in Ore- gon for fancy cabinet work and in turnery. The fruits are edible. Anderson's Manzanita, Arcto- staphylos Andersoni A. Gray, is. Fig. 696. — Woolly Manzanita. reported as sometimes becoming arborescent and 6 m. high, with a tnmk base 3 dm. in diameter; it occurs in the Redwood forests of Santa Cruz county, and in San Mateo coimty, Cahfomia, and differs from the preceding in its thinner, heart-shaped sessile leaves, more bristly twigs, wider and more hairy bracts of the inflorescence, and has a more southern range. 2. LARGE MANZANITA —Aictaphylos Manzanita Parry An erect evergreen shrub or ' small tree, often 8 meters tall; a noted tree in Napa coimty, Cali- fornia, has a height of me- ters, a trunk diameter of over i m. an9 a spread of over 10 m. It is frequent in the Coast Moim- tains of California, forming dense thickets on the mountain sides, extending northward into Ore- gon. The trunk is erect, usually much branched, often from near the ground. The bark is thin and smooth, dark reddish, peeling off freely in large flakes, exposing the greenish younger bark, which. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustra
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