ERICACEAE | 1005 
20. ARSENOCOCCUS Small. Deciduous-leaved shrubs with more or less 
pubescent foliage. Leaves alternate: blades membranous or thickish.  Flower- 
clusters in terminal panicled racemes.  Calyx-lobes broad, short, persistent. 
Corolla white, urceolate, usually globular or depressed, with very short spreading 
or recurved lobes. Filaments thickened below the anthers, unappendaged. 
Capsule depressed, not angled.—Only the following species.—Spr.-sum.—MALE- 
BERRIES. 
Racemes and panicles leafy-bracted 
: 1. A. fro 
Racemes and panicles naked or nearly so. 2. ws 
EMO UN 
l. A. frondosus (Pursh) Small. ee tie i. shrub 1-4 m. tall: leaf- 
gees - to narrowly elliptie, or someti oval or obovate, 2-8 em. ee 
corolla 5 
mm. wide. [Andr 
fiora Michx.]—Swamps and low po es 
Coastal Plain, Fla. to La. and S 
2. A. ligustrinus (L.) Small Deciduous- 
 leaved shrub 1—4 m. tall: leaf-blades elliptie 
em. long, entire or indis- 
ost omm 
bilge adi e e globular, mainly 
4 
wide.—Dry woods and thickets, hill- 
sides, moist thickets, acid ue va- 
us provinces, Fla. to Ar k., W. Va., and 
e. 
1. EPIGAEA L. Evergreen creeping aidin with woody roots, 
Leaves alternate: blades entire. Flowers perfect or dioecious, in aua 
clust al es 5, DUC but 
eareely accrescent. Corolla white or pink, 
salverform, the b 5 ts 
slender, with a tuft of hairs near the middle: 
anthers ellipsoid-ovoid, awnles Stigma 5- 
lobed. Capsule depressed ios species, the 
following, and one in Japan. 
5 
Woy NNNM SS LII 
CO E + 
1. E. repens L. Stem and branches 5-30 
em. long, hirsute: leaf- ea UMS to 
oo ics or suborbicular, 2-10 em. long, É 
nely reticulate: calyx-lo ba es lanceolate, 
a cor ee about twice as long a 
the calyx; lobes ovate: Ti depressed 5- 
lobed —( TR pu Ei MAYFLOWER.) 
—D oods and banks, i in acid soil, various 
provinces, Fla. to Miss., Sask and Newf.—Spr.—One of the very popular 
T du and np E in many localities. The flowers are very 
fragra 
22. GAULTHERIA L. Evergreen undershrubs, with rootstocks. Leaves 
alternate, approximate near the ends of the branches: blades shallowly toothed. 
