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OXYCOCLUS ERICACE 4 413 
@. palustris Pers. Syn. i, 419. Vaccinium oxycoccus L. Stems very 
slender, creeping, rooting at the nodes, 6-18 inches long; branches erect or 
ascending, 2-6 inches high, very leafy: leaves thick, evergreen, ovate, 
acute at the apex, rounded or eerdate at base 2-5 lines long, green above, 
white beneath, the margins revolute, entire: flowers 1-5 in a fasicle from 
terminal thin-scaly buds, nodding on erect long filiform 2-bracteolate pedi- 
cels: corolla pink, about 4 lines broad, cleft nearly to the base; filaments 
fully half as long as the anthers: berries globose, 3-5 lines in diameter, 
often spotted when young. In cold bogs, Uregon to and around the sub- 
. Arctic Zone. | 
Var. intermedium. Vaccinium Oxycoccus var. intermedium Gray. 
Leaves from ovate to oblong, mostly obtuse, 3-6. lines long: flowers strictly 
umbellate from the scaly bud, but this not rarely proliferous into a leafy 
shoot: berries 3-5 lines in diameter. Cold bogs in the Cascade Mountains, 
Oregon to Brit. Columbia. ; 
Orper LV. ERICACEAS DC. Fl. Franc. iii, 675. 
Shrubs trees or herbs with simple leaves without stipules, 
and mostly perfect flowers. Calyx inferior, free from the ovary, 
4-5-parted or 4-5-cleft, mostly persistent. Corolla regular, or 
rarely somewhat irregular, usually 4-5-toothed or 4-5-lobed. 
Stamens hypogynons, usually as many or twice as many as 
lobes or divisions of the corolla: filaments mostly separate and 
free or nearly free from the corolla: anthers 2-celled, the cells 
often prolonged upwardly into tubes, opening by terminal pores 
or chinks, or longitudinally, often awned: the pollen composed 
of 4 united grains. Ovary 2-5-celled with placentae in the 
axis, the ovules usually numerous, sometimes solitary, anatro- 
ro style single: stigma peltate or capitate. Fruit a capsule 
erry or drupe. Embryo small or minute, in fleshy albumen. 
TriBE 1, ARBUTE® Fruit a berry or berry-like drupe. Corolla 
4-5-toothed, deciduous. ° 
1 Arbutus Ovary 5-celled, many-ovuled: fruit a many-seeded berry. 
2 Aretostaphylos Ovary 5-10-celled, with a single ovule in each cell: 
fruit a 5-10-seeded drupe, or by abortion 3-9-seeded. 
TRIBE 11, ANDROMEDE® Fruit a loculicidal, chiefly 5-celled 
and many-seeded capsule.. Corolla usually 5-toothed, deciduous. 
* Calyx becoming fleshy and berry-like in fruit, enclosing the small 
capsule. | 
3 Gaultheria Corolla campanulate and 5-lobed, or urceolate, 5-toothed. 
* * Calyx remaining dry under the naked capsule. 
4 Andromeda. Low shrubs with moderately broad leaves: calyx valvate 
or open in bud: corolla from globular-urceolate to cylindraceous: cap- 
sule 5-celled. ) . 
5 Cassiope Small fruticulose plants with small thick or acerose mostly 
imbricated leaves: calyx of ovate imbricated sepals: corolla open-cam- 
panulate, 4-5-lobed or parted: capsule 4-5-valved, the valves 2-lobed. 
TRIBE ut, RuoporER. Fruit a septicidal capsule, the valves 
in dehiscence separating from the persistent placentiferous col- 
