PHYLLODOCE 7 ERICACE 4 419 
BRYANTHUS 
cated in 4 ranks: pedicels filiform: corolla 5-lobed: style slender, slightly 
thickened downward. In the Blue Mountains of Oregon to the Aleutian 
Islands and Siberia. 
C. Mertensiana Don |. c. Rather stout, with rigid ascending stems 
and fastigiate branches, a foot or less high: leaves 1-2 lines long, glabrous, 
carinate and not furrowed on the back, imbricated in four ranks: pedicels 
rather short: corolla 5-lobed: style slender, slightly thickened downward. 
On the highest mountains, California to Alaska and the Rocky Mountains. 
C. tetfagona Don |. c. Stems erct or ascending 4-12 inches high, 
with fastigiate branches: leaves 1-2 lines long, thick and with a deep fur- 
row on the back, imbricated in four ranks, often pubescent when young: 
flowers sometimes four-merous: peduncles 5-12 lines long: style slender, 
slightly thickened below. Higher parts of.the Cascade Mountains in 
Oregon to the Arctic regions and across the Continent. 
Tribe 3, Rhodorex Don. Corolla deciduous, its lobes or petals 
imbricated in the bud. Anthers without awns or appendages. Stig- 
ma not rarely surrounded by a ring or border. Frutt a septicidal 
capsule: the valves (in ours) in dehiscence separating from the per- 
sistent placentiferous columella. 
* Anthers opening by a pore or chink at the apex of each cell. 
+ Flowers from the axils of coriaceo-foliaceous persistent bracts, 
or rarely from those of ordinary leaves. Corolla gamopetalous. 
Filaments and, style filiform. Capsule globular, 4- or 5-valved 
from above. | 
6 PHYLLODOCE Salisb. Parad. Lond. t. 36. 
Low branching more or less glandular shrubs with small linear 
evergreen leaves and white to purple or blue flowers in terminal 
umbels. Pedicels bracted at the base. Calyx 5-parted, persist- 
ent. Corolla ovoid, contracted at the throat, 5-toothed, Stam- 
ens 10, included: filaments filiform; anthers attached by their 
backs, oblong, obtuse, the cells opening by terminal oblique chinks. 
Ovary 5-celled ; ovules numerous ; style filiform, included ; stigma 
obscurely 5-lobed or, capitate. Capsule subglobose or globose- 
oblong, 5-valved to about the middle. Seeds minute, the testa 
coriaceous. . 
P. glandulifiora. Bryanthus glanduliflorus Gray. Stems rather rig- 
id, fastigiately branched, 3-12 inches high: leaves numerous and crowded 
but somewhat spreading, linear-oblong, obtuse, 3-6 lines long, thick, with 
a white line through the centre below and a deep furrow above, narrowed 
at base to a short petiole, the margins thick and scabrous: pedicels 6-12 
lines long, glandular-hirsute: sepals lanceolate, acutish to acuminate 2 
lines long, glandular-hirsute: corolla yellowish, ovoid, 3-4 lines long, 
the short lobes glabrous. On rocky banks and cliffs near perpetual snow, 
Oregon to Alaska and the Rocky Mountains. 
7 BRYANTHUS Gmel. Fi. Siber. iv, 132. 
Small evergreen shrubs with much crowded, linear alternate 
leaves and showy rose-color to purple flowers umbellate or racem- 
ose-crowded at the ends of the branches, Calyx 4—6-toothed or 
