DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA, 269 



A shrub resembling' \zalea, with purple flowers; youn- 

 ger leaves revolute; flowers i'aciculated, terminal. 



Species. 11. canadensis. The only species of the ge- 

 nus. 



585. EPIGtEA. L. (Trailing-Arbutus.) 



Calix large, 5-parted, tribracteateat the base. 

 Corolla salverform, border 5-parted, spreading; 

 tube internally villous. Capsule 5-celied; Ue- 

 ceptade 5-parted. 



Herbaceous subcespitose evergreens; leaves alternate^ 

 flowers in dense axillary and terminal racemes. 



Sfecies. Yj. repena. Flowers fragrant, appearing ear- 

 ly in the spring. — The mountains of the West India isl- 

 ands afford a second species of this genus. 



386. * PTEROSPORA.f 



Calix 5-parted. Corolla monopetalous, ovate, 

 margin 5- toothed reflected. Anthers excentri- 

 cally peltate, 2 celled, adnate to the filaments 

 by the margin; bisetose. Capsule 5-celled, im- 

 perfectly 5-valved; dissepiments medial; septa 

 and valves united towards the base and coales- 

 cing with the receptacular axis; Receptacle 5- 

 lobed. Seeds very numerous and minute, each 

 furnished with a terminal wing. 



An evanescent annual, destitute of verdure, with the ha- 

 bit of .T/o/Jo^ro/fa to which it is allied. Leaves none, nei- 

 ther radical nor cauline; stem simple, racemose, flowers 

 numerous, scattered; reddish, resembling those of Andro- 

 meda, peduncles rather long, 1-flowered, cernuous. 



P. Anilromedea. 



Root .... Every part of the plant, except the corolla, 

 covered with short brown viscid hairs. Leaves none. 

 Stem about a foot high, perfectly simple, brown-red or 

 purple, somewhat cylindric, sensibly attenuated upwards. 

 Flowers numerous, (at least 60 or more) irregularly 

 dispersed in an elegant raceme; peduncles spreading e- 

 qually around the stem, sometimes collected in fascicles 

 of 4 or 5 each, cylindric, nutant, 3-4 of an inch long, eacU 



f From TT^epcVj amng-^ and e- -re pec, a seed. 



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