211 IIKATH FAMILY. 



4 CRANBERRY; creeping or trailing very slender hardly woody plants, with 

 small evergreen leaves tr/titis/t hcnrnth, single flowers in summer, borne on 

 slfndi r ii-ii-t /Kilii-i/.-i, /ink rose corolla </</</'/ jmrtul into 4 narrow rtflexed 

 divisions, 8 diitliers with very lomj tithes hid no aims on the buck, and Mid 



rid /'//// 4-<-i l/iil, n/ii in (iiiti/iini. 



V. OxyCQCCUS, SMALL C. Cold peat-hogs X. & K. : a delicate little plant, 

 flowering at the end of the steins, the ovate acute leaves (only ,-J' Ion- ) with 

 strongly revolute margins, lierry only half as la rye as in the next, often speckled 

 with white, .-eldoni gathered for market. 



V. macrocarpon, LARGE or AMERICAN C. Boys from Virginia N. ; 

 with steins 1 to 3 long, growing on so that the (lowers become lateral, oh- 

 lony ohtu.-c leaves sometimes ' long, and with le.-s revolute margins, and 

 berries ' or more long ; largely cultivated for the market K. 



3. CHIOGENES. ( Greek-made name, alluding to the snow-\rhite berries. ) 



C. hispidula, CREEPING SNOWKKKKY. Cool peat-hogs and low mossy 

 woods N. : with nearly herhaceous slender creeping stems, very small ovate 

 pointed evergreen lea\es, their lower surface and the hranehlets l.eset with rusiy 

 hristles, minute axillary flowers in late s].ring, and white herries ripe in summer : 

 these and the foliage have the flavor of Aromatic Wintergreen. 



4. ERICA, IIKATH. (Ancient Greek name.) All belong to the < >M 

 World. The Heaths of the con>ervatories, Uooming in winter, helony to 

 various species from C'ape of Good Hope, Of the European species one hears 

 the winter well at the North, and is planted, viz. 



E. carnea (in the form called K. IIKRB\CEA), of the Alps ; a low under- 

 sliruh, with linear b'uiit leaves whorled in fours, and rosy or bright tle>h-colorcd 

 (lowers, with narrow corolla rather longer than calyx, in early spring. 



5. CALLUNA, HEATHER, LING. (Name from Greek, to sweep, brooms 



being made from its twigs in Europe.) 



C. VUlgai'is, COMMON II. of North Europe, seldom planted, very sparingly 

 found wild in E. New England and Nova Scotia, &e. : II. summer. 



6. ARCTOSTAPHYLOS, BEARBEEBY (the name in Greek). 



A. D'va-'drsi, COMMON H. ; trailing over rocks and bare Mis N., forming 



mats, with thick smooth and entire ohovate or spatulate evergreen leaver, and 

 small scalv-hraeted nearlv white flowers in a short raceme, in early spring, fol- 

 lowed by 'the red austere berries. Leaves used in medicine, a>tringent and 

 .some\\ hat mucilaginous. 



7. GAULTHERIA, AROMATIC WINTERGHEEN, &c. (Named 



for />,-. (i,iiiitlii,r or ti'anltin- of Quebec, over IMd years ago.) 



G. prociimbens, ('i;i:i:i>iNr, W., r,<>\r.i KKV, CMI:< 'KKRHERRY, Xc. ; 

 common in evergreen and low woods, spreading by long and slender mo-tly 

 Mil.lerraneaii runners, sending up stems :V - .V In'uh. bearing at summit a few 

 obovate or oval leaves and in summer one or two nodding white flowers in the 

 a\ils. the edible red " berries " la-ting over winter : the-e and the folia-e famil- 

 iar for their spicv tlavor, yielding the oil of wintergreen 



G. Shallon, in the shade of evergreen wood- of Oregon. &c., and sparingly 

 ]ilanted, a shrub spreading over the ground, with glossy ovate slightly heart 

 t-haped leaves al>oui :!' lony, and (lowers in racemes. 



8. EPIG-2EA. (Name in Greek tneau- on tin- i/ronnd, from the growth.) 



E. l*6pens, TK\II.IN<: Ain-.fTrs, GI;.MM> LM-IM i , or, in New England, 

 MAYFLOWER. Sandy or some rocky woods, chiefly E., under pines, \c. ; pros- 



