950 OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Herbaceous; leaves opposite or alternate; flewers red- 
' dish, towards the summit of the stem, solitary and axil- 
lary, or in terminal bracteate spikes: stamina in a few spe- 
cies declinate. : 
Species. 1. F. spicatum. Commonly called E. angusti- 
folium, but the leaves are comparatively more broad than 
narrow. 2. latifolium. 3. liteum, Pu. 4. tetragonum. 5. 
* squamatum. Subcanescently pubescent; root squamose, 
ulbous; stem terete, branching above; stem leaves oppo- 
site, those of the branches alternate, linear and entire, re- 
volute on the margin; flowers pedunculate; petals bifid: 
stamina unequal; stigma clavate undivided. Has. In wet 
meadows, common around Philadelphia. 2. rosmarinifa- 
%, lium. Purshb, Flor. Am. 1. p. 259. but this name has been 
ees applied by Haenke to a very different species. 
s. Root in winter an imbricated squamose bulb, with 
_ succulent reddish scales! Stem about 1 foot high, slender; 
. flowers small, few and terminal; petals small, white, and 
veined, bilobed, longer than the calix; stamina unequal, 
4 shorter opposite the petals, and 4 longer alternating 
with them; capsule very long, 4-sided. 6. coleratum. Leaves 
with linear and round diaphanous punctures (through a 
lens) afier the manner of nothera, excepting that the 
punctures are of two forms. 7. palustre. 8. alpinum. Pro- 
bably E. oliganthum. Mich. 1. p. 223, 
A genus principally indigenous to the north of Europe, 
ing as far as Greenland; there is also 1 species in 
Chili, 2 in New-Zealand, and 1 at the Cape of Good Hope. 
- Have not all the species indigenous to the colder regions 
roots which assume the form of bulbs in winter? 
364. OXYCOCCUS. Persoon. (Cranberry.) 
Calix superior, 4-toothed. Corolla 4-parted; 
segments sublinear, revolute. Filaments conmi- 
vent. 4nthers tubulose, semibifid. Berry many- 
seeded. 
Small prostrate creeping shrubs with ene leaves, 
oblong, nearly flat and obtuse, distantly subserrulate, un- 
_.. der side somewhat glaucous, younger ones pubescent at 
“© the points; segments of the corolia linear-lanceolate— 
Branches sometimes flexuose and adscendent, serrula- — 
