230 OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
S..Vess. Berry with 4 cells, globular, with a hollow 
dimple. 
SEEDs few, small. : Bee orem 
Oss. In some species, all the parts of fructification are 
increased 1-4thin number. The calyx in Vaccinium myrtillus 
is very entire, in most of the rest with 4 clefts. The new 
blown blossom is hardly divided, but in the V. oxycoccus it is 
rolled back to the base, or rather 4-petaled, and the stamens 
are sometimes 10. - 
ERICA. Tourn. 373. a. Gertn. 63. 
Car. Cup with 4 leaves; leafits egg-oblong, permanent. 
Bross, 1 petal, bell-shaped, with 4 clefts, often bellying. 
Stam. Filaments 8, hair-like, standing on the receptacle. 
-- Anthers cloven at the point. is 
Pist. Germen roundish. Style thread-shaped, straight, 
longer than the stamens. Summit resembling a little 
crown, with 4 clefts, and 4 edges. ori : 
S.Vess. Capsule roundish, covered, smaller than the cup, 
with 4 cells and 4 valves. iD 
SEEDs numerous, very smiall, | Mir 
- Oss. In some species the cup is double. The figure of the 
blossom varies between egg-shaped and oblong. The stamens 
In some species are longer, and in others shorter than the blos- 
- som. The anthers in some ‘are notched at the end, in others 
they are furnished with 2° awns, Linw.—The summit also is 
different in different species. (Reich | | ; 
POP’ULUS. Tourn. 365. 
Male flowers. : eda) 
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Buoss. Petals none. : iG 
Stam. Filaments 8, extremely short, xtuthers 4-cdged, 
AL. in and Scale hed 
Bross. | Petals on <i f Jes 
p i is a aioe Style 
ist. Germen egg-shaped, but tapering to a point. Styl 
hardly deena Suinneis wire Shas. 
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