. Flora of southern British Columbia and Vancouver Island [microform] : with many references to Alaska and northern species. Botanique; Botanique; Botanique; Botany; Botany; Botany. 232 ERICACEi⬠i. 1. A. alpina (L.) Sprepg. Depressed; leaves deciduous, thin, oboyate cm. long, serrate, wrinkled, strongly veined; fruit red, juicy, edible. Rockies; Yoho; Alaska. 2. A. uva-ursl Spreng. (Kinnikinick). In depressed patches: twigs minutely puberulent; leaves obovate, thick, evergreen, glabrous; flowers few, corolla pink; fruit red, smooth, dry, hardly edible. Common; Alaska 3. A. media Gree
. Flora of southern British Columbia and Vancouver Island [microform] : with many references to Alaska and northern species. Botanique; Botanique; Botanique; Botany; Botany; Botany. 232 ERICACEi⬠i. 1. A. alpina (L.) Sprepg. Depressed; leaves deciduous, thin, oboyate cm. long, serrate, wrinkled, strongly veined; fruit red, juicy, edible. Rockies; Yoho; Alaska. 2. A. uva-ursl Spreng. (Kinnikinick). In depressed patches: twigs minutely puberulent; leaves obovate, thick, evergreen, glabrous; flowers few, corolla pink; fruit red, smooth, dry, hardly edible. Common; Alaska 3. A. media Greene. Procumbent, with leafy ascending branches, 3-6 dm. high; leaves obovate-cuneiform, about '> cm. long, puberulent beneath, paler. A hybrid between Nos. 2 and 3. V. I., Paisley Is. 4. A. tomentosa Dcmgl. Erect, 1-3 m. high; twigs white-tomentose; leaves ovate or oblong, about 3 cm. long, mucronate, more or less tomentose when young, sometimes becoming glabrate; flowers many, whitish; fruit depressed-globose, hirsute. Rocky hillsides, Coast; V. I.; Howe Sound. 10. GAULTHERIA Shrubs with hairy twigs and alternate evergreen leaves; flowers solitary or in racemes; calyx 5-cleft; corolla urn-shaped or campanulate; stamens 10, anthers mostly awned, opening by pores; capsule 5-celled, 5-valved, en- closed when ripe by the fleshy calyx, the fruit thus -berry-like. (Gaultier was a French naturalist). 1. G. shallon Pursh. (Salal). Stout, erect, 2-18 dm. high; leaves ovate- oblong, serrate, 3-7 cm. long, cordate or rounded at base, short-pointed; flowers in glandular racemes, corolla ovoid, 5-8 mm. long, glandular-pubescent; anthers 4-awned, filaments hairy; fruit a purple berry. Coast; Vancouver. 2. G. ovatifoha Gray. (Western Teaberry). Rather slender, branches hirsute, depressed, with ascending branches- 1-2 dm. high; leaves ovate, rounded or subcordatc at base, serrulate, acute or obtuse, cm. long; flowers solitary; corolla campanulate, open, white or pink, glabrous, t
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