BEAR-BERRY, ETC. 837 



[The resemblance of the fruit to a Strawberry is purely 

 superficial, the wart-like excrescences being on the car- 

 pellary walls, and the seeds enclosed in the fleshy fruit ; 

 whereas in the Strawberry the flesh is the floral axis 

 and the " pips " the achenes (fruits) borne on it.] 



Prociimhent suh-shruh. Ovary-cells each 

 with one ovule. Fruit a small red smooth 

 herrv. 



Arctostaphijlos Uva-ursi, Spreng. Bear-berry. A pro- 

 cumbent evergreen sub-shrub, with Box-like leaves and 

 Cranberry-like habit. 



Flowers homogamous with hidden honey ; like those 

 of Arbutus, but smaller, and red berries like those of 

 the Cranberry, but the ovary is superior. 



[The much rarer Arctostaphylos alpina has narrower, 

 thinner leaves, withering in autumn, and black berries.] 



tt Flowers large, 50 60 mm. or more long, 

 zygomorphic. Parts of flowers in fives or 

 multiples of 5. Median sepal anterior. 

 Anthers devoid of awns, opening by apical 

 pores ; pollen connected by fine threads. 

 Capsule septicidal. 



Floioers yellow, very fragrant, viscous. Sta- 

 mens 5. Leaves deciduous and haii'y. 



Azalea pontica, L. Yellow Azalea, Shrub with de- 

 ciduous, ciliate and clammy leaves, and large, fragrant, 

 yellow flowers in terminal umbellate clusters, appearing 

 before the foliage. Protandrous, with abundance of 

 honey. 



Calyx short, glandular- viscid, irregularly 5-lobed. 

 Corolla with a long grooved tube, glandular-viscid, and 

 a spreading limb divided into 5 irregularly ovate-lanceo- 

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