. 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. Large Fruited Manzanita 7(>3 soon becomes red. The twigs are minutely hairy, ashy-gray, becoming reddish brown. The leaves are ovate to ovate-oblong, blunt or pointed, rounded, or some- times tapering at the base, entire on the margin; they are stiff and leathery usually turned upward by a twist of the stout petiole, which is 6 to 18 mm. long, dullish green and smooth on both sides. The flowers appear from November to
. 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. Large Fruited Manzanita 7(>3 soon becomes red. The twigs are minutely hairy, ashy-gray, becoming reddish brown. The leaves are ovate to ovate-oblong, blunt or pointed, rounded, or some- times tapering at the base, entire on the margin; they are stiff and leathery usually turned upward by a twist of the stout petiole, which is 6 to 18 mm. long, dullish green and smooth on both sides. The flowers appear from November to March, and are usually in perfection at Christmas, in crowded, somewhat paniculate clusters, on smooth pedicels, their bracts broad, taper-pointed; calyx closely ap- pressed to the broadly um-shaped, whitish or pinkish corolla; stamens included; filaments sUghtly hairy; ovary smooth or nearly so. The fruit ripens in July or August, is globose, about 8 nam. in diameter, bright brownish red and shining; stone consisting of 5 to 7 more or less firmly united roughish nutlets. The berries have an agreeable sour, mealy flesh, and are used for jelly. They were an important article of food of the CaHfomian Indians. The leaves, con- taining about 8 per cent, of tannin, have been used as an astringent medicine. The brightly shining red branches are employed in the manufacture of rustic work; the wood is used for fuel. 3. LARGE FRUITED MANZANITA —Arctostaphylos glauca Lindley An erect shrub or small tree, with a much branched trunk up to meters tall, and 3 dm. in diameter, occurring along the Coast Mountains from Mount Diablo, CaUfomia, southward. The twigs are glabrous throughout, the leaves elliptic to broadly ovate, 2 to 5 cm. long, sharp or blunt-pointed, rounded or slightly heart-shaped at the base, entire on the margin, or on vigorous young shoots often toothed; they are thick and stiff, pale green, smooth and glaucous on either side, with stout leaf-stalks 6 to 12 mm. long. T
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