238 DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Pisr. Germen roundish, tapering to a point. Style 
lindrical, as long as the stamens. Saummit a blunt kn stad 
S. VEss. Capsule egg-shaped, blunt, with 5 angles, and 
5 valves. 
SEEDS numerous, chaffy. 
Oss. Such are the generic characters of the terminating 
flower, but, if there are any Jateral flowers, they contain ‘_ 
less in number in all the parts. Liny. 
ANDRO’MEDA. Gerin. 63. 
Car. Cup with 5 divisions, acute, very small, aga 
permanent. 
Buors. | he sas ‘bell-shaped, with 5 clefts. Segments re 
Stine Filaments 10, awl-shaped, shorter than the blos- 
som, to which they very aaghely adhere. : 
with 2 horns, noddi ee 
Pist. Germen roundish. Style cylindrical, longer than the - 
stamens, permanent. Swmmit blunt. : 
S. Vess. Capsule roundish, with 5 angles, 5 cells, and 5 Z 
val Vets ORETINE at the angles. Partitions nee 
valves. 
Szeps roundish, shining. 
Oxs. The blossom in some species is egg-sha but ia 
others truly bell-shaped, and the anthers are ei Mine 
without awns. "This genus differs from Erica in the number of 
the parts. Lin.’ In Andromeda Daboecia there is of 
the parts of the fructification wanting, on which account it 8 
now remoyed to the aeons Erica, ms 
AR’BUTUS. Tourn. $0ne's70, Uva Ursi. Geortn. 59 a 
Car. Cup with weap, blunt, very small, peninanne oa 
Bross. 1 petal, egg » flattish a transparent at a 
pn ; mouth with 5d = Sige ed 
aie PSS: 10, nek sie ‘but. ‘dellyi v ee 
_ slender at the. base, half as lo: asthe ving. , 
» fixed edgewise 1 to its base. | sea Pe. 
Pist. Germen riearly ‘globular, si ‘the seep 
tacle, which is market sik 10 ae ricaly 
rh ae as the blossom. Summit i oe tic Fs 
