152 ERICACEAE, 
entira leaves on bristly stalks; more or less imperfect rela- 
tively large fragrant pinkish funnel-shaped gamopetalous flow- 
ers crowded at the ends of the shoots; and round many-seeded 
capsules—infrequently seen. 
Leaves elliptical or ovate, often cordate. E. repens. 
GAULTHERIA. Wintergreen. 
Underground trailing plants with erect scarcely woody 
short stems few-leaved at top; or shrubs with rather 3-sided 
branches; alternate somewhat raised crescent-shaped or sub- 
elliptical leaf-scars with 1 bundle-trace; no stipule-scars; ovoid 
solitary buds with several pairs of scales; slightly revolute 
more or less toothed short-stalked leaves; pinkish urceolate 
perfect flowers in terminal racemes or axillary; and thin-walled 
capsules in fleshy berry-like calyx. 
1. Erect stems short and simple, few-leaved. G. procumbens. 
Bushy. 2, 
2. Leaves round or cordate at base: fruit blackish. G. Shallon. 
Leaves cuneate: fruit blue. G. Veitchiana. 
Erica. Heath. 
Usually delicate evergreen shrubs with brown close wood 
with minute diffused ducts, sometimes sparser in autumn, and 
fine medullary rays; slender twigs with raised round leaf-scars 
with I bundle-trace; no stipule-scars; small solitary buds; small 
narrow spreading short-stalked leaves decurrent as_ raised 
ridges on the stem; small perfect urn-shaped mostly pinkish 
gamopetalous flowers crowded at the ends of the branches; and 
small roundish capsules with small seeds. 
1. Leaves bristly, in whorls of 4. E. Tetralix. 
Leaves not bristly. 2. 
2. Leaves in whorls of 4: stamens protruding. E) ‘carnea: 
Leaves in whorls of 3: stamens not protruding. E. cinerea. 
CALLUNA. Heather. 
Delicate small evergreen shrubs with slender terete twigs; 
minute angular homogeneous pith; opposite roundish minute 
leaf-scars with 1 bundle-trace; no stipule-scars; very small 
