Raised from seeds collected by Hartweg in California; received at the Garden June 5th, 1848, and said to be collected in woods near Monterey; growing twelve feet high.

This was originally gathered by Menzies, on the north-west coast of America. Douglas found it at Puget Sound. It forms an evergreen bush, with dense, narrow lanceolate, slightly serrated leaves, covered, especially on the under side, with transparent, glossy, saucer-shaped sunken scales, of microscopical dimensions, consisting of a layer of wedge-shaped cells, placed obliquely round a common centre. The flowers are green and inconspicuous, in short axillary spikes, which eventually bear from one to three small globular fruits, whose surface is closely studded with fleshy, oblong, obtuse grains of a dull red color, and astringent flavor.

It is a hardy evergreen, growing freely in any good garden soil, increased by seeds or by layers, in the usual way. It flowers in July, and produces" in September an abundance of its little granular fruits. In gardens it is an acquisition, being a hardy shrub, with fragrant leaves, and well suited for rock work or for the front of a shrubbery. - Horticultural Society's Journal.