ERICACELE.
Vaccinium arboreum. Farkleberry. Virginia and south ward. A shrub or email tree sometimea twenty feet high, growing from Virginia and Southern Nicola southward Oxydendram arboreum. Sourwood or Sorrel-tree. Pennsylvania and auuthward. This tree grows chiefly in the mountainous districts of the Alleghanteafrom Penn sylvania southward. In fertile valleys, at the foot of the mountain, in North Carolina ant Tennessee, it attains a height of fifty feet. The common name sour-tree is derived from the acidity of its leaves. The flowers are white, and in spikes live or six inches long. They are very ornamental, and begin to be produced when the tree is five or six feet high.
Kalmia ta.ifo'ia. Calico-bush or Mountain Laurel. Pennsylvania and southward. A beautiful evergreen shrub, sometimes attaining the size of a small tree. It is very ornamental and deserving of cultivation.
Ehodode• drop maximum. Roes Bay or Great Laurel. Pennsylvania and southward. Like the preceding, an evergreen shrub of great beauty. It has been fiuch 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 result of this cross, once supposed to be impossible, has given us many splendid varieti ea.
B. Catifurnicum. California Rhododendron. Pacific coast.
Arbutus Afenziesii. Madrone-trce. California and Ore gon.
A. Texana. This species or varietygrows in Texas. It is mostly a large shrub; sometimes. however, becoming twenty-five feet high and eight or ten inches in diameter. The leaves are smaller and the flowers less panicled than in the California species. The timber is said to be almost imperishable.
Arctostaphylos glances. Manzanita. Oregon and Cali fornia. The e are several apecica of this genus on the western coast, mostly shrubs or small trees, which have been much coulneed. The specimen under this number is f om Southern California, and has a large drupe-like fruit. with a consolidated nut. These berries are pleasant to the taste, and much employed as food by the Indiana of that region.
tomenlosa. Manzanita. California and Rocky Mountains.
A. pungens. Manzanita. California and Rocky Moun tains.