no Heath (Ericaceae). [No. 14 



(2) Genus CHIOGENES, Salisb. 



Trom two Greek words meaning " snow " and " offspring," with reference to its snow- 

 white berries. 



Fig. 55. Creeping Snowberry. C. serpyllifblia, Salisb. C. 

 hispfdula, T. and G. 



Flowers, white, bell-shape, very small, solitary, on short 

 nodding stems from the axils of the leaves, and with 

 two bractlets under the calyx. Corolla, deeply four- 

 cleft. Calyx, four-parted, persistent. Stamens, eight, 

 not exserted. Filaments, short and broad. Seed-case, 

 four-celled, many-seeded, adherent to the calyx. 

 May. 



Leaves, evergreen, one quarter to one third inch in length, 

 alternate, egg-shape or oval, pointed ; margins rolled 

 under ; upper surface smooth, under surface set 

 sparingly with stiff, rusty hairs. Branches, slender 

 and like the leaves beset with rusty hairs. 



Fruit, one quarter inch in diameter, rounded, bright white, 

 four-celled, many-seeded, edible. A berry. 



Found, in swamps and mossy woods from North Carolina 

 through the Alleghany Mountains, and far northward 

 and westward. 



A slender woody creeper, evergreen, from one to two 

 feet in length ; its berries and foliage pleasantly flavored, 

 with the aroma of wintergreen. 



I pulled my row-boat, one August day, to the shore of 

 <in island in Lake Placid, and left it there safe among the 

 rocks. Walking a few yards inland, I found myself 

 .suddenly in a new world. Instead of water and open 



