ERICACE.X.
Vacciniumarboreum. Farkleberry. Virginia and south ward. A. shrub or small tree oometirnea twenty feet high, growing from Virginia aud Southern Illinois southward. Oxydendrum arborewm. Sourwood or Sorrel-tree. Pennsylvania and southward. This tree grows chiefly in the mountainous districts of the Alleghamea trom-Penn sylvania southward. In fertile valleya, at the foot of the mountain., in North Carolina and Tennessee, it attains a height of fifty feet. The common name sour-tree is derived from the acidity of its leaves. The flowera are white, and in spikes live or six inches long. They are very ornatnental, and begin to be produced when the tree is five nr six feet high.
Kalmia latifolia. Calico-bush or Mountain Laurel. Pennsylvania and southward. A beautiful evergreen ahrub, sometimea attaioing the size of a email tree. It Is very ornamental and deserving of cultivation.
Rhododendron maximum. Rose Bay or Great Laurel. Pennsylvania and sonthward. Like the preceding, an evergreen shrub of great beauty. It hae been much im proved by cultivation. Some of the hybrids are most elegant, and a great variety are now sold by nurserymen.
It has been hybridized with azalia, and the reault of thia crose, once suppoaed to be impoasible, haa given us many aplendid varietiee.
R. Californicum. California Rhododendron. Pacific coast.
Arbutus Menziesii. Madrone-tree. California and Ore gon.
A. Texana. Thia species or variety grows in Texas. It is mostly a large ahrub; sometimes, however, becoming twenty-five feet high and eight or ten incheo in diameter. The leavea are smaller and the flowera leas panicied than in the California apeciea. The timber is said to be almoat imperishable.
Arctoetaphyloe glauca. Manzanita. Oregon and Cali fornia. Thole are aeveral species of this genus on the western coaat, mostly shrubs or email trees, which have been much confused. The specimen under this number is from Southern California, and haa a large drape-like fruit, with a consolidated nut. Theme berries are pleasant to the taste, and much employed aa food by the Indians of that region.
A. tomentoea. Manzanita. California and Rocky Monntaina.
A. pungene. Manzanita. California and Rocky Monn tains.