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612 DIOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



T R I A N D R I A. 



EMPETRUM. Gefi. pL iioo. 

 MASC. Cal. 3-partitus. Cor. 3-petaIa. Siam. longa. 

 FEM. CaL 3-partitus. Cor. 3-petala. Siyli 9. 

 Bacca 9-lperma. 



EMPETRUM procumbens. Sp. pi 1450. (Ger. 



em, isSs.f. g.) 

 Black-berried Heath, Crow, or Crake-berries. 



Preas-nam-Fiantag. Fiantaga, Dearca-fithich. 

 Gaulis. 



It is frequently found both in the dryeft and mod 

 barren rocky foils, and in bogs and moorifh 

 grounds. 1? . V. 



This is a fmall decumbent Ihrub, with branches a 

 foot long. Its outer bark brown and decidu- 

 ous, the interior yellow. 1 he branches are rough, 

 with the remainder of the pedicles of fuch leaves 

 as are fallen off. The leaves are numerous, and 

 crowded, thick and firm, of a fmall elliptic 

 figure, divided in the middle by a white nerve, 

 and generally grow verticillate, four in a whirl. 

 The flowers are axillary and feilile. The calyx is 

 of a pale green colour, the petals reddilh. The 

 filaments very long and red, the anthers and 

 piftils almoft black. The berries are green at 

 firft, but black when ripe. This flirub has been 

 fometimes found with hermaphrodite flowers, bur 

 very rarely. 



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