418 ERICACEZ 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. 38s 
G. Shallon Pursh Fl. i, 284, t. 12. (sanaL) 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 razemes, 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 termina! 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 it he 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, 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- 
centze 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. vii, 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- 
