1904] BRIEFER ARTICLES 301 
CASSIOPE. ARCTERICA, 
‘Leaves opposite, cupressiform, Leaves in whorls of three, cham- 
imbricate, calcarate. aecistiform, with an apical gland. 
_ Flowers axillary. Flowers in terminal clusters. 
Sepals with a transverse fold at the Sepals not folded at base. 
base. 
Anthers attached toward the apex. Anthers attached by the base. 
HARRIMANELLA. ARCTERICA. 
am Leaves alternate, empetriform, Leaves in whorls of three, cham- 
: : aecistiform. 
a: Flowers singly terminating the Flowers in “clusters, the pedicels 
| om, not bracted. subtended by a bract and bibracte- 
olate at about the middle. 
"Style ovoid-conical, Style cylindrical. 
_ Anthers attached toward the apex. Anthers weached by the base. 
Bist “Allustrations of three species of Cassiope and two species of Harri- 
manella are given in the Washington Academy paper to which refer- 
_ €nce has already been made. In both Harrimanella and Cassiope the 
_ pollen pores, the two awns, and the point of attachment of the fila- 
_ ment are close to the apex of the anther, but in Arcterica the filament 
: and two awns are attached near the base of the anther, only the pollen 
pores being terminal. (Fig. 
a ' Superficially, i in habit an foliage. Arcterica presents an appearance 
diate between Chamaecistus procumbens and Vaccintum Vitis- 
Idaea, but its leaves, situated in whorls of three, 
: and its stamen characters suggest possible relation- 
5 ship to Erica. Apparently, however, it is not con- 
_ §€neric with any known species of that genus. Its 
corolla is not chartaceous; it is a depressed plant 
barely rising above the mosses and lichens among 
_ which it grows; its leaves have peculiar apical 
glands and it is geographically isolated from 
ne oe 
of awns and filament; 
America. Whether the plant is more nearly rela- 4,the same organs in 
ted to Cassiope and Harrimanella, and belongs Harrimanella stel- 
therefore to the tribe Andromedeae, or to Erica, criana (both X 5). 
: of the tribe Ericeae, is a question likely to remain unanswered until 
os fruiting specimens are available. 
Fic. 2.—a@ oe 
and stamen of Arcée- 
