par “ 
a 
DIOECIA. TETRANDRIS. 288 
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calix 6 to 8 imbricated scales with tomentose margins; an- 
thers purplish. Calix of the fruit similar to that of the 
stamens; style distinct, rigid and persistent, stigmas 
about 4 or 6, purple, 2 only conspicuous; berry yellow- — 
ish, small and astringent to the taste, 2-seeded, sceds bo- 
ny, plano-convex. vv. Near Augusta in Georgia, on 
gravelly hills. 
Thisggenus with Empetrum ought apparently to form a ae 
section {En eernea) at the end of the Contrera, charac- 
terized by producing a berry containing more than 1 nu- 
ciform seed. The affinity of Ceratiola to Taxus, though 
certainly remote, still appears to justify the reference of 
these two genera to this family, with which they also 
agree in the structure of the seed, rather than the Erica 
which they seaemaiie i in potting but the lento ‘ 
Me -Onate HII—TRIANDRIA. ; 
. 784. EMPETRUM. EL. (Crow or Crake-berry.) 
3 —- Galiag gemmaceons, imbricated, scales abot 
i  —s«&9z, the $ innermost petaloid. © Stigmas 9. 
about 9-seeded. Seeds osseous. 
Erect or small procumbent shrubs; leaves led, 
ternate ontnbrestenye’. semper inant aaa evolute 
flowers axillary, sess 
Species. 1, E. ples Berries nearly black. 
In Canada. 
Of this genus there are 2 species in Barope, E. album 
in Portugal and Z. nigrum in the northern parts of Eur 
» there is also a third species indigenous to the 
‘Straits of Magellan, and Lehrertl a uianne, 
pet a oueepce ine er 
ct Oupza IV ~TETRANDRIA. a 
785. *MACLURA, {+ (Bow-wood,, Yellow-wood,) = 
a Mase. Ament? Fem. Calice 2», Co- 
