KRICACE^. (lIKATII FAMILY.) 31o 



1 . C. serpyllif 61ia, Salisb. Leaves 3 - 4" long ; berries 3" broad, bright 

 white. (C. liisi)i(luhi, Torr. <J' Gray.) — Peat-bogs, and mossy woods, N. J. and 

 Pcnn. to Minn., and northAvard ; al.so southward in the Alleghanies to N. C. 

 May. — Plant with the aromatic flavor of Gaultheria or Sweet Birch. 



4. ARCTOSTAPHYLOS, Adans. Bkakhkkkv. 



Corolla ovate and urn-shaped, with a short revolute 5-toothed limb. Stamens 

 10, included; anthers with 2 reflexed awns on the back near the apex, opening 

 by terminal pores. J^rupe berry-like, with 5- 10 seed-like nutlets. — Shrubs, 

 with alternate leaves, and scaly-bracted nearly white flowers in terminal ra- 

 cemes or clusters. Fruit austere. (Name composed of ApKTos, a bear, and 

 (TTarpvXi], a fjrape or hern/, the Greek of the popular name.) 



1. A. Uva-lirsi, Spreng. (Bkarbekrv.) Trailing; leaves thick avd 

 evergreen, obovate or spatulate, entire, smooth ; fruit red. — Rocks and bare 

 hills, N. J. and Penn. to Mo., and far north and westward. May. (Eu., Asia.) 



2. A. alpina, Spreng. (Alpine Bearberrv.) Dwarf, tufted and de- 

 pressed; leaves deciduous, serrate, wrinkled with strong netted veins, obovate; 



fruit black. — Al])ine summits in N. Eng., and high northward. (Arctic-alpino 

 around the world.) 



5. EPIG-2EA, L. Ground Laurel. Trailing Arbutus. 



Corolla salver-form; the tube hairy inside, as long as the ovate-lanceolate 

 pointed and scale-like nearly distinct sepals. Stamens 10, with slender fila- 

 ments ; anthers oblong, awnless, opening lengthwise. Style slender, its apex 

 (as in Pyrola) forming a sort of ring or collar around and partly adnate to the 

 5 little lobes of the stigma. Capsule depressed-globular, 5-lobed, 5-celled, 

 many-seeded. — A prostrate or trailing scarcely shrubby plant, bristly with 

 rusty hairs, with evergreen and reticulated rounded and heart-shaped alter- 

 nate leaves, on slender petioles, and with rose-colored flowers in small axillary 

 clusters, from scaly bracts. (Name composed of iiri, upon, and yri, the earth, 

 from the trailing growth.) 



I. E. rdpens, L. — Sandy woods, or in rocky soil, especially in the shade 

 of pines, Newf. to Minn., south to Fla., and Ky. — Flowers appearing in early 

 spring, exhaling a rich spicy fragrance, dimorphous as to style and stamens 

 and subdioecious. In New England called Mayflower. 



6. GAULTHERIA, Kalm. Aromatic Winter(;reen. 



Corolla cylindrical-ovoid or a little urn-.<<haped, .5-toothed. Stamens 10, in- 

 cluded ; anther-cells each 2-awncd at the summit, opening by a terminal pore. 

 Capsule depressed, 5-lobed, .'j-celled, .5-valved, many-seeded, enclosed when ripe 

 by the calyx, which thickens and turns fleshy, so as to appear as a globular red 

 berry ! — Shrubs, or almost herbaceous plants, with alternate evergreen leaves 

 and axillary (nearly white) flowers; pedicels with 2 bractlets. (Dedicated by 

 Kalm to " Dr. Gaulthier," of Quebec.) 



1. G. proCTimbens, L. (Creeping Wintergreen.) Stems slender 

 and extensively creeping on or below the surface; the flowering branches iis- 

 cending, leafy at the summit (3-5' high); leaves obovate or oval, obscurely 

 serrate ; flowers few, mostly single in the a.xils, nodding. — Cool damp woods. 



