LEDUM ERICACE 423 
CLADOTHA MNUS 
veloped from separate mostly terminal buds with well imbricated 
caducous scales and bracts. Calyx 5-lobed or 5-parted, persistent. 
Petals 5, widely spreading. Stamens 4-10: filaments filiform : 
cells of the anthers opening by terminal pores. Style filiform, . 
persistent. Pedicels recurved in fruit. Capsule oval or oblong, 
septicidally 5-valved from the bas> upward : placentse pendulous, 
Seeds slender, with a loose coat. : 
* Leaves densely tomentose beneath, the wool soon ferruginous and 
the margins strongly revolute: inflorescence all terminal. 
L. Grenlandicum (der Fl. Dan. t. 567. L. latifolium Ait. Stems 
erect or ascending, 1-4 feet high, the branchlets rusty-tomentose: leaves ob - 
long, obtuse, 1-2 inches long, green an1 slightly rugose above: flowers 4-5 
lines broad, umbellate or short-corymbose, numerous: pedicels brgwn-canes- 
cent, 10-12 lines long, recurved in fruit: stamens 5-7,: capsule oblong, canes- 
cent, 3-4 lines long. In cold marshes, northwest Washington to Alaska and 
across the Continent. 
* * Leaves glabrous both sides: inflorescence terminal or sometimes 
lateral, | 
L. glandulosum Nutt: Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. viii. 270. Stout, 2-6 
feet high: leaves oblong or oval, 1-2 inches long, green above, white and 
resinous atomiferous beneath: inflorescence often compound and crowded: 
_ flowers numerous, white, 3-4 lines in diameter: calyx 5-parted : capsule oval, 
-retuse. In wet places, California to Brit, Columbia and the Rocky Mountains. 
* * Leaves entire. No thin-scaly strobilaceous buds. Corolla of 
distinct petals or 5-cleft.. Anthers opening longitudinally from the 
apex nearly or quite to the base of the cells, or by terminal pores. 
Capsule 2-5-valved from above. | 
14 CLADOTHAMNUS. Bong. Veg. Sitk. 37, t. 1. 
Erect branching shrubs with alternate deciduous leaves and 
solitary terminal or axillary reddish flowers from leafy shoots of 
the season. Sepals 5, somewhat foliaceous, as long as the five 
spreading petals, persistent. Stamens 10: ‘filaments dilated below: 
anthers oblong, opening longitudinally from the apex nearly or 
quite to the base of the cells. Style long, declined and incurved, 
thickened at the apex, and annulate around the discoid stigma. 
_ Capsule depressed-globose, 5—6-celled ; septicidally 5-valved from 
above, many-seeded. Seeds oval, with a loose cellular coat. 
? C. campanulatus Greene Eryth. iii, 65. ‘‘ Shrub 4 to 5 feet high, 
. with few. and stoutish ascending branches: leaves lanceolate, 1 to 3 inches 
long, tapering to a short petiole which, together with the veins beneath, is 
-more or less strigose-hirsute with red hairs: flowers solitary or in pairs or in 
threes, from lateral buds, on pedicels 44 inch long, these setose-hispid with 
red hairs: sepals ovate-oblong, densely ciliate with short gland-tipped hairs: 
corolla light salmon-color, campanulate, the petals joined together at base 
into a short tube; anthers opening only by a pair of large round terminal 
pores. High mountains of Washington and British Columbia; hitherto 
coufused with the typical species, which belongs to Alaska.’’ 
, Orper LV a. PYROLACEA Agardh Cl. Pl. 18, 
Low mostly evergreen perennials with petioled leaves, and 
