ERICACEAE. (HEATH FAMILY.) 
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16. LED1FM) L. Labrador Tea. 
Calyx 5-toothed, very small. Corolla of 5 obovate and spread¬ 
ing distinct petals. Stamens 5 - 10 : anthers opening by terminal 
pores. Pod 5-celled, splitting from the base upwards, many- 
seeded. — Low evergreen shrubs, with the alternate entire leaves 
clothed with rusty wool underneath, the margins revolute : slight¬ 
ly fragrant when bruised. Flowers white, handsome, in terminal 
umhel-like clusters from large scaly-bracted buds. (AijSop, the 
ancient Greek name of the Cistus, transferred by Linmeus to this 
genus.) 
1 It latilolium, Ait. Leaves elliptical or oblong; stamens 
5, sometimes 6 or 7; pod oblong.-Cold bogs and damp mountain 
woods. June. - Shrub 2° - 5° high. - L. palOstre, L., g.ows in 
British America, but I have never seen it in the United States. It is 
distinguished by its linear leaves, uniformly 10 stamens, and especial- 
ly by its oval pods. 
Suborder III. PYROLEjE. The Pyrola Family. 
17. PYBOLA, L. False Wintergreen. 
Calyx 5-parted, persistent. Petals 5, concave and more or less 
converging, deciduous. Stamens 10 : filaments awl-shaped, na¬ 
ked • anthers turned outwards and inverted in the bud, soon erect, 
opening by 2 pores at the scarcely (if at all) 2-horned apex, more 
or less 4-celled. Style long and generally turned to one side : 
stigmas 5, either projecting or confluent with the ring which sur¬ 
rounds them. Pod depressed-globose, 5-valved from the base 
upwards (loculicidal), many-seeded ; the valves woolly on the 
e( j ges- _Low and smooth perennial herbs, with running subterra¬ 
nean shoots, bearing a cluster of rounded and petioled evergreen 
root-leaves, and a simple raceme of nodding flowers, on an P f 
scaly-bracted scape. (Name a diminutive ? •**"*£ £5 
tree, from some fancied resemblance m the foliage, 
obvious.) 
„ j- „ deAinintr and curved , longer than the per 
* St r enS . ™ Cm g ;/^tkTn ne : leaves denticulate or entire. 
tals : stigmas exserted beyond the ring 
1. P. rotuildifolia, L. (Rousd-leavxd 
orbicular, thick,shining, usually shorter than the petio e, what 
gated, many-flowered ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acutish, 
