106 CLASS DECANDRIA. 



preceding, having the leaves by 3's, of a pale green, 

 and die flowers small and always red. 



The K. glauca is only met with in deep, mossy 

 swamps, in mountainous situations ; flowers rather 

 earlier than the rest, and the corolla is large and ele- 

 gant ; but it is well known by its particolored leaves, 

 very green above, and white or glaucous beneath, 

 with the margin revolute, or turned down. 



The Vacdnium, or Whortleberry, is a genus of 

 shrubs of various sizes, with smallish, entire leaves, in 

 some species evergreen. The calyx, which crowns 

 the berry, is 4 or 5-toothed. The corolla urceolate, 

 or campanulate, with the border 4 or 5-cleft. The 

 berry 4 or 5-celled, many-seeded. The United 

 States abound in species of this genus, and the fruit 

 of several is wholesome and palatable. This genus 

 is the type of a natural order Vaccineje, but scarce- 

 ly differs from Andromeda, of the Ekiceje, in any 

 thing but the fruit, which in this last is a capsule of 5 

 cells and 5 valves, with the dissepiments from the mid- 

 dle of the valves. 



In very shady woods, coming up from under the 

 fallen leaves, you may perhaps, about August, chance 

 to meet with clusters of a very curious plant of this 

 class, called Monotropa, the type of a natural order 

 Monotropeje. It is altogether white and diapha- 

 nous, or yellowish, at no time verdant ; each stem, 

 about a span or less, is clothed with scales, and ter- 

 minated, according to the species or section of the 

 genus, by 1, or several flowers in a raceme. These 

 consist of a calyx of 3 to 5 parts, or is altogether 

 wanting in some of the species. The corolla is cam- 

 panulate, formed of 5 petals, cucullate, or concave at 

 the base. The anther consists of 1 cell, and opens 

 in a bilabiate manner. The capsule 5-celled, 5- 

 valved. The seeds are numerous and minute, in- 

 rested with a long arillus, 



