250 OCTAXDRIA, MONOGYMA. 



Herbaceous; leaves opposite or alternate; flowers red- 

 dish, towards the summit of the stem, solitary and axil- 

 hry, or in terminal bracteate spikes: stamina in a few spe- 

 cies declinate. 



Species. 1. T^. spicatiim. Commonly called ^. u^i^t^s^?'- 

 foUum, but the leaves are cnmparatively more broad than 

 narrow. 2. latifolmm. 3. iuteum, Vn. A. tetragonum. 5. 

 * sqiiamatum. Subcanescently pubescent; root squamose, 

 bulbous; 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; stigrna clavate undivided. Hab, In wet 

 meadows, common around Philadelphia. E. rosmarmifo- 

 Hum. Pursh, Flor. Am. 1. p. 259. but this name has been 

 already applied by Haenke to a very different species. 

 Obs. Root in winter an imbricated squamose bulb, with 

 succulent reddish scales! Stem about 1 footliig-h, slender; 

 flowers small, few and terminal; petals small, white, and 

 veined, bilobed, longer than the calix; stamina unequal, 

 4 shorter opposite tlie petals, and 4 longer alternating 

 with them; capsule very long, 4-sided. 6. coloratum. Leaves 

 with lindar and round diaphanous punctures (through a 

 Jens) after the manner of (Enotheru, excepting that the 

 punctures are of ^wo forms. 7.palustre. d>. alpimim- Pro- 

 bably E. oUganthum. Mich. 1. p. 223. 



A genus principally indigenous to the north of Europe,- 

 extending 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 conni- 



- vent. .Snthers tubulose, sefnibifid. Berry many- 

 seeded. 



Small prostrate creeping shrubs v/ith evergreen leaves^ 

 growing in sphagnose morasses; branches filiform, proli- 

 ferous;'fiowers produced at the base of the verjial ramuli^ 

 in short geramaceouS racemes, peduncles conspicuous 

 bibracteate; berries red, or rarely white, acid. 



Species. 1. O. macrocarpus. Obs. Repent; leaves oval- 

 oblong, nearly flat and obtuse, distantly subserrulate, un- 

 der side somewhat glaucous, youncer ones pubescent at 

 the points; segments of the corolla linear-lanceolate. — 

 Branckes sometimes flexuose and adscendent, serrula- 



