ERICACEAE. 297 
CHIOGENES. Moxie Plum. 
(Family Ericaceae). 
Low , very delicate aromatic 
trailing shrubs: evergreen. Stems 
filiform, brown-chaffy, terete: pith 
minute. Buds solitary, sessile, 
ovoid, appressed, minute, with 
about 2 exposed scales. Leaf- 
scars alternate, low, minute, cres- 
cent-shaped: bundle-trace 1, scarce- 
ly discernible: stipule-scars 
lacking. Leaves small, subellipti- 
cal, acute, short-petioled, entire. 
In some respects the creeping 
snowberry, as Chiogenes is called 
sometimes because of its white 
fruit, is the most attractive and 
dainty of our woody plants, and 
it is rarely seen except by close 
observers because of its habit of 
growth and its small size. The 
name capillaire given it by the 
French Canadians expresses well 
the delicacy of its stem. Like the wintergreen, it is pleas- 
Stem brown-chaffy: leaves slightly chaffy beneath. 
C. hispidula. 
