Vor, I1.] HEATH FAMILY. 565 
9. PHYLLODOCE Salisb. Parad. Lond. p/. 36. 1806. 
Low branching more or less glandular shrubs, with small crowded linear obtuse coria- 
* ceous evergreen leaves. Flowers long-pedicelled, nodding, mostly pink, blue or purple, in ter- 
minal umbels. Pedicels bracted at the base. Calyx 5-parted, persistent. Corolla ovoid, con- 
tracted at the throat, 5-toothed. Stamens 10, included; filaments filiform; anthers attached to 
the filaments by their backs, oblong, obtuse, awnless, the sacs dehiscent by terminal oblique 
chinks. Disk obscurely lobed. Ovary 5-celled; ovules numerous; style filiform, included; 
stigma obscurely 5-lobed, or capitate. Capsule subglobose or globose-oblong, septicidally 5- 
valved to about the middle. Seeds minute, the testa coriaceous. [Greek, a sea nymph. ] 
Three species, natives of arctic and alpine regions of the northern hemisphere. Besides the 
following, two others occur in northwest America. 
1. Phyllodoce coerulea (L. ) Gren. & Godr. 
Mountain Heath. (Fig. 2760.) 
Andromeda coerulea I,. Sp. Pl. 393. 1753. 
A. faxitfolia Pall. Fl. Ross. 1:54 pl. 72. f. 2. 1784. 
Phyllodoce coerulea Gren, & Godr, Fl, France 2: 434. 
1850. 
Menziesia taxifolia Wood, First Lessons, 185. 1856 
Bryanthus taxtfolius A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 368. 
1868. 
A shrub 4/-6’ high, the branches ascending. 
Leaves yew-like, 3//-5’’ long, less than 1/’ wide, 
articulated with the branches, crowded above; the 
margins acutish, scabrous or serrulate-ciliolate; 
pedicels erect, very glandular, 5//-8’’ long in 
flower, elongating in fruit, solitary or 2-6 at the 
ends of the branches; corolla 4’/-5’’ long, about 2’ 
in diameter, pink or purple, heath-like; sepals 
lanceolate, acuminate, glandular; capsule erect, 
about 2/7 high. 
Summits of the higher mountains of Maine and New 
Hampshire; Mt. Albert, Quebec; Labrador and through 
aretic America to Alaska. Also in northern and al- 
pine Europe and Asia. July-Aug. 
10. CASSIOPE D. Don, Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 17: 157. 1834. 
Low tufted branching heath-like evergreen shrubs, with small sessile densely imbricated 
or crowded, entire apparently veinless leaves, and terminal or axillary solitary peduncled 
white or pink nodding flowers. Sepals 4 or 5, imbricated at least in the bud, not bracted at 
the base, persistent, or at length deciduous. Corolla campanulate, 4-5-lobed or 4-5: parted, 
the lobes spreading or recurved. Stamens 8-10, included; filaments subulate, glabrous, an- 
thers attached to the filaments near the apex, the sacs opening by large terminal pores and 
tipped with a recurved awn. Disk 1o-crenate. Ovary 4-5-celled; ovules numerous; stigma 
simple. Capsule globose or ovoid, 4-5-valved, each valve 2-cleft at the apex. Seeds minute, 
numerous. [Name from Cassiope, mother of Andromeda. ] 
About 10 species, natives of the colder parts of the northern hemisphere. Besides the following, 
3 others occur in the northwestern parts of North America. 
Peduncle terminal; corolla 5-cleft; leaves subulate, crowded. 1. C. hypnotdes. 
Peduncles latera]; corolla 5-lobed; leaves thick, 4-ranked. * 2. C, lelragona. 
1. Cassiope hypnoides (L,.) D. Don. Moss-plant. Cassiope. (Fig. 2761.) 
Andromeda hypnoides ¥,. Sp. Pl. 393. 1 
Cassiope hynoides D. Don, Edinb, New P 
Journ. 17:157. 1834. 
Densely tufted, glabrous, usually much 
branched, 1/-3/ high. Leaves linear-sub- 
ulate, densely crowded and imbricated, 
somewhat spreading or appressed, acute, 
flat above, convex beneath, 1’/-2’’ long; 
flowers solitary, terminating the branches, 
3/’-4’’ broad; peduncles very slender; 
erect, 4’’-12’/ long; corolla deeply 5-cleft, 
nearly white; style conic; capsule globose, 
about 114’ in diameter, 2-3 times as long 
as the ovate calyx-lobes. 
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Summits of the higher mountains of New : ; ; : 
England and the Adirondacks of New York; Quebec and Labrador to arctic America, Also in arctic 
Europe and Asia. Plant with the aspect of a moss. Summer. 
