GENUS 9. 



HEATH FAMILY. 



6S 5 



g. KALMIELLA Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 886. 1903. 



Low shrubs, the foliage hirsute, the leaves small, alternate. Flowers mostly solitary in 

 the axils of leaf-like bracts, slender-pedicelled pink or purple. Calyx-segments 5, foliaceous, 

 hirsute or ciliate, deciduous. Corolla saucer-shaped, acutely 5-lobed, with 10 pouches below 

 the limb. Stamens 10. [Diminutive of Kalniia.] 



Three species, the following typical, the others Cuban. 



i. Kalmiella hirsuta (Walt.) Small. Hairy 

 Laurel. Fig. 3232. 



Kalmia hirsuta Walt. Fl. Car. 138. 1788. 

 Kalmiella hirsuta Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 886. 1903. 



A branching shrub, i-2 high, the branches ascend- 

 ing, hirsute. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, very 

 nearly sessile, flat, or the margins slightly revolute, 

 villous-hirsute, acute or obtusish, becoming glabrate in 

 age, dark green above, lighter beneath, 3"-6" long; 

 flowers solitary, or rarely 2-3 together in the axils, 

 rose-purple, s"-9" broad ; pedicels very slender, nearly 

 or quite glabrous ; calyx-segments ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, or lanceolate, longer than the capsule; capsule 

 depressed, about li" in diameter, glabrous. 



In moist pine-barrens, eastern Virginia to Florida. 

 May-Aug. 



10. PHYLLODOCE Salisb. Parad. Lond. 

 pi. 36. 1806. 



Low branching more or less glandular shrubs, with small crowded linear obtuse coria- 

 ceous evergreen leaves. Flowers long-pedicelled, nodding, mostly pink, blue or purple, in 

 terminal umbels. Pedicels bracted at the base. Calyx 5-parted, persistent. Corolla ovoid or 

 urceolate, contracted at the throat, 5-toothed. Stamens 10, included; filaments filiform; 

 anthers attached to the filaments by their backs, oblong, obtuse, awnless, the sacs dehiscent by 

 terminal oblique chinks. Disk obscurely lobed. Ovary 5-celled ; ovules numerous ; style 

 filiform, included; stigma obscurely 5-lobed, or capitate. Capsule subglobose or globose- 

 oblong, septicidally 5-valved to about the middle. Seeds minute, the testa coriaceous. [Greek, 

 a sea nymph.] 



About 8 species, natives of arctic and alpine regions of the northern hemisphere, the following 

 typical. Besides the following, 5 or 6 others occur in northwest America. 



i. Phyllodoce coerulea (L.) Babingt. Moun- 

 tain Heath. Fig. 3233. 



Andromeda coerulea L. Sp. PL 393. 1753. 

 A. ta.rifolia Pall. Fl. Ross, i : 54. pi. 72, f. 2. 1784. 

 Phyllodoce coerulea Babingt. Man. Brit. Bot. 194. 1843. 

 Menziesia taxifolia Wood, First Lessons 185. 1856. 

 Bryanthus taxifolius A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7 : 368. 



1868. 



A shrub 4' -6' high, the branches ascending. Leaves 

 yew-like, 3"-s" long, less than i" wide, articulated 

 with the branches, crowded above, their margins 

 acutish, scabrous or serrulate-ciliolate; pedicels erect, 

 very glandular, s"-8" long in flower, elongating in 

 fruit, solitary or 2-6 at the ends of the branches ; 

 corolla 4"-s" long, about 2" in diameter, pink or 

 purple, heath-like ; calyx-segments lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, glandular ; capsule erect, about 2" high. 



Summits of the higher mountains of Maine and New 

 Hampshire ; Mt. Albert, Quebec ; Labrador and through 

 arctic America to Alaska. Also in Greenland and in 

 northern and alpine Europe and Asia. July-Aug. 



ii. CASSIOPE D. Don, Edinb. Phil. Journ. 



17:157. 1834. 



Low tufted branching heath-like evergreen shrubs, with small sessile opposite, crowded, 

 entire apparently veinless leaves, appressed, so that the branches appear 4-sided, and axillary 

 solitary peduncled white or pink nodding flowers, on pedicels bracted at the base. Sepals 

 4 or 5, imbricated at least in the bud, not bracted at the base, persistent, or at length decidu- 



