EPIGAEA— CHAMAEDAPHNE 



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or crowded and nearly opposite; flowers in terminal clusters from scaly 

 buds, sepals 5, large, persistent, petals 5, united to form a salver-shaped 

 corolla, stamens 10, not exserted, ovary 5-lobed, 5-celled, style columnar, 

 stigma 5-lobed; fruit a fleshy capsule, finally loculicidal ; seeds oval. 

 Two species, the other Japanese. 



Epigaea repens L i n 11 e 1753 Trailing Arbutus 



Leaves petioled, elliptical, rough hairy, tip round, base round or heart- 

 shaped, 3-6 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide; flowers pink, very fragrant, sepals 

 lanceolate, about 7 mm. long, corolla 1 cm. across, corolla-tube about 1 

 cm. long ; repens, creeping. 



Newfoundland to Saskatchewan, south to Florida, Kentucky, the 

 region of the Great Lakes, and Minnesota. In Minnesota common in the 

 northeastern and northern parts in sandy evergreen forest, extending as 

 far southwest as the head waters of the Mississippi. Flowers opening 

 in earliest spring. 



Chamaedaphne M o e n c h 1794 

 (Gr. charaae upon the ground, daphne a kind of shrub) 



An erect shrub, branches slender, stiff; buds scaly; leaves alternate, 

 petioled, leathery, scurfy, evergreen, flowers in leafy racemes; flowers with 

 two small bractlets just below the calyx, sepals 5, separate, corolla cylindric 

 of 5 united petals, stamens 10, included in the corolla, anthers not 



awned, the sacs elongated above into long tubes with terminal pores, 

 pistil of five united carpels, ovary superior, 5-celled, style straight, stigma 



