488 EMPETRACEJS- (CROWBERRY FAMILY.) 



adjacent coast of Maine, alpine summits in N. Eng. and N. Y., L. Superiot 

 and northward. (Eu.) 



2. CORE MA, Don. Broom-Crowbekry. 



FJowers dioecious or polygamous, collected in terminal heads, each in the 

 axil of a scaly bract, and with 5 or 6 thin and scarious imbricated bractlets, 

 but no proper calyx. Stamens 3, rarely 4, with long filaments. Style slen- 

 der, 3- ( or rarely 4 - 5-) cleft ; stigmas narrow, often toothed. Drupe small, 

 with 3 (rarely 4-5) nutlets. Seed, etc., as in the last. — Diffusely much 

 branched little shrubs, with scattered or nearly whorled narrowly linear heath- 

 Hke leaves. (Name Koprjfxa, a broom, from the bushy aspect.) 



1. C. Conradii, Torr. Shrub 6' -2° high, diffusely branched, nearly 

 smooth ; drupe very small, dry and juiceless when ripe. — Sandy piue barrens 

 and dry rocky places, N. J. and L. Island (?), Shawangunk Mts., N. Y., coast 

 of S. E, Mass. and Maine, to Xewf. The sterile plant is handsome in flower. 

 on account of the tufted purple filaments and brown -purple anthers. 



Order 106. CERATOPHYLLACE^. (Hornwort Family.; 



Aquatic herbs, with whorled finely dissected leaves, and minute axillanj 

 and sessile monoecious fioivers luithout fioral envelopes, hut with an 8-12- 

 cleft involucre in place of a calyx, the fertile a simple 1-celled ovary, with a 

 suspended orthotropous ovule , seed filled by a highly developed embryo 

 with a very short radicle, thick oval cotyledons, and a plumule consisting oj 

 several nodes and leaoes. — Consists only of the genus 



1. CERATOPHYLLUM. L, Hornwort 



Sterile flowers of 10-20 stamens, with large sessile anthers. Fruit an 

 achene, beaked with the slender persistent style. — Herbs growing under 

 water, in pouds or slow-flowing streams ; the sessile leaves cut into thrice- 

 forked thread-like rigid divisions (whence the name from wepas, a horn, and 

 (fiiWov, leaf). 



1. C dem^rsum, L. Fruit smooth, marginless. beaked with a long 

 persistent style, and with a short spine or tubercle at the base on each side. 

 — Var. echinXtum, Gray, has the fruit mostly larger (3" long), rough-pim- 

 pled on the sides, the narrowly winged margin spiny-toothed. — Slow streams 

 'ind ponds, across the continent. (Eu., etc.) 



