418 ERICACEAE ANDROMEDA 



CASSIOPE 



length of the calyx-lobes : pedicels solitary in the axils, usually 4-bracteo- 

 late : fruit scarlet. Cascade Mountains, Oregon to Brit. Columbia. 



* * Corolla ovate or urceolate, 5-toothed : filaments hairy : anthers 

 4-awned at the summit. \ 



G. Shallon Pursh Fl. i, 284, t. 12. (SALAL) Shrubby, 1-6 feet high, 

 with rather stout spreading stems : branches, pedicels and even the corollas 

 glandular-hairy or pubescent: leaves ovate to cordate, often acuminate, 

 strongly serrulate, 1-4 inches long : flowers in open bracteate many-flowered 

 secund racemes, from axillary and terminal chartaceous-scaly buds : ped- 

 icels 2-bracteolate below the middle : corolla urn-shaped, 3-5 lines long, 

 5-toothed, viscid : fruit black, 3-6 lines in diameter, edible. Very common 

 in forests, Alaska to California. 



4 ANDROMEDA L. Sp. 393. 



Low shrubs with coriaceous, linear or oblong evergreen leaves, 

 and small white to flesh-colored flowers in terminal umbels. 

 Calyx deeply. 5- parted, persistent but not becoming fleshy in fruit. 

 Corolla globose-urceolate, 5-toothed, the teeth recurved. Stamens 

 10, included ; filaments hairy; anthers attached to the filaments 

 at about the middle, ovate, obtuse, the cells opening by large ter- 

 minal pores, each with a recurved awn. Ovary 5-celled. Cap- 

 sule subglobose, 5-angled, the top intruded, loculicidally 5-valved, 

 many-seeded. Placenta borne near the top of the columella, the 

 seeds spreading in all directions. 



A. polifolia L. 1. c. Stem 6-18 inches high, simple or branched: 

 leaves tirm-coriaceous, glabrous and glaucous, linear to lanceolate-oblong, 

 with strongly revolute margins, white beneath : flowers in a small termin- 

 al umbel : pedicels from the axils of ovate persistent scaly bracts, naked : 

 calyx small, deeply 5-parted, early open; corolla globose-urceolate, 3-4 

 lines long : anthers short, each cell surmounted by a slender ascending 

 awn : seeds smooth and shining. Wet bogs, northern Washington to 

 Alaska and across the Continent. 



5 CASSIOPE D. Don Edinb. New Phil. Journ. xvii, 157. 



Fruticulose evergreens with small or minute imbricated or 

 crowded T entire and veinless, often opposite or whorled leaves 

 and solitary flowers nodding on the summits of erect naked pedi- 

 cels.. Calyx ebracteolate, of 4 or 5 imbricated sepals that are 

 thickened at base. Corolla open-campanulate, 4- or 5-lobed or 

 parted. Anthers short, attached nearly by their summits, the 

 cells each opening by a large terminal pore, and tipped by a 

 slender recurved awn. Style thickened at base, or conical Pla- 

 centae many-ovuled, pendulous from the summit of the short 

 columella. Capsule globose or ovoid, dry, loculicidally 4- or 5- 

 valved, the valves 2-cleft. Seeds minute, with a thin close coat. 



C. Stelleriana DC. Prodr. yii, 610. Diffusely spreading : leaves ob- 

 long-linear, obtuse, widely spreading, flattish, obscurely serrulate, 2-3 lines 

 long: peduncle terminal, very short: corolla 4- or 5-parted : style conical. 

 Washington to Alaska. 



C. lycopodioides Don 1. c. Stems filiform, very low and creeping: 

 leaves barely a line long, roundish on the back, not ciliate, closely imbri- 



