250 ERICACEAE 



II. ARBUTOIDEAE (berry or loculic. caps.; seed triangular 

 or ovate, not winged; C falling; anthers much folded, with 

 peg-like appendages, or prolonged into tubes, shedding the 

 pollen upwards; ov. sup. ): 



1 . Androinedeae (dry capsule with small calyx at base) : Cas- 

 siope, Andromeda, Epigaea. 



2. Gaultherieae (caps, or berry; K fleshy round caps., or 

 leafy; anthers blunt at tip or with two short processes): 

 Gaultheria, Pernettya. 



3. Arbuteae (K as small disc at base of berry; anthers with 

 two long processes) : Arbutus, Arctostaphylos. 



III. VACCINIOIDEAE (as II., but ov. inf.): 



i. Vatcinieae (ovary sharply denned from peduncle) : Gay- 



lussacia, Vaccinium. 

 i. Thibaudieae (K decurrent on ovary and going over into 



peduncle): Pentapterygium, Agapetes, Paphia, Macleania, 



Thibaudia. 



IV. ERICOIDEAE(h. usu. loculic. caps , or nut ; seeds round, 

 not winged ; C persistent after flowering ; anther with short 

 connective, thecae spreading above, frequently appendaged): 



1. Ericeae ( > i seed in each loc.) : Calluna, Erica. 



2. Salaxideae (i seed in each loc., capsule or nut) : Eremia, 

 Salaxis. 



Ericaceous, heath-like. 



Ericala Renealm. ex S. F. Gray = Gentiana Tourn. (Gent.). 



Ericales. The ist order of Sympetalae. The 4 th cohort (BH.) of 

 Gamopetalae. 



Ericameria Nutt. (Aplopappus BH.}. Compositae (3). 12 W. U.S. 



Ericetal, growing on moors. 



Erichsema Hemsl. Leguminosae (in. 2). i Austr. 



Ericinella Klotzsch. Ericaceae (iv. i). 4 S. and W. Afr. 



Ericoid (1.), narrow, nee 'le-like, rolled back. 



Erigenia Nutt. Umbelliferae (m. 4). i E. U.S. 



Erigeron L. Compositae (3). 150 cosmop., esp. N. Am.; 2 Brit, 

 (flea-bane). 



Erinacea (Tourn.) Adans. Leguminosae (in. 3). i S.W. Eur. 



Erinna Phil. Liliaceae (iv). i Chili. 



Erinocarpus Nimmo ex J. Grah. Tiliaceae. i S. India. 



Erinus L. Scrophulariaceae (in. i). i Pyrenees, Alps. 



Erio- (Gr. pref.), woolly ; -phorous, very cottony, or woolly. 



Eriobotrya Lindl. Rosaceae (n). 12 subtrop. As. E. Japonica 

 Lindl. has ed. fr. (loquat), largely cult, in As. 



Eriocaucanthus Chiov. Malpighiaceae (i). 3 trop. and S. Afr. 



Eriocaulaceae (EP., BH.). Monocots. (Farinosae, Glumaceae BH.). 

 6 gen., 540 sp. mostly trop. and subtrop. Perenn. herbs with grass- 

 like 1. Fls. in heads (involucrate), inconspic., unisexual, 2- or 3- 

 mcrous, reg. or -I- . P usu. sepaloid, in 2 whorls. <f with 4 or 6 sta. 

 (3 or 2 in Paepalanthus); anthers di- or mono-thecous. with sup. 

 ov. of (2 3) cpls. , with one orthotr. pend. ov. in each loc. Caps. 

 Endosp. Chief genera: Eriocaulon, Paepalanthus. 



Eriocauleae (BH.) = preceding. 



