ERICACEAE. 281 



Stamens mostly fewer than the corolla-lobes ; ovary 

 1-celled with 1 pendulous ovule, or 3-celled with 



2 of the cavities without ovules. Order 8. Valerianales. 



Anthers united (except in Ambrosiaceae). Order 9. Campanulales. 



Order 1. ERICALES. 



Flowers complete, regular. Calyx toothed, lobed, or divided, superior, 

 except in Vacciniaceae. Corolla mainly gamopetalous. Stamens free from 

 the corolla, or adnate only to its base, as many as its lobes and alternate 

 with them, or twice as many. Ovary compound. 



Family 1. ERICACEAE DC. 



Heath Family. 



Shrubs, perennial herbs, or trees, with simple estipulate leaves, and 

 mostly perfect flowers. Calyx free from the ovary, -i-o-parted or 4-5-cleft. 

 Corolla regular, or rarely somewhat 2-lipped, usually 4— 5-toothed, -lobed or 

 -parted. Stamens hypogynous, usually as many or twice as many as the 

 corolla-lobes, teeth or petals; anthers 2-celled, attached to the filaments by 

 the back or base, the sacs often prolonged upwardly into tubes. Ovary 

 2-5-celled ; stigma peltate or capitate ; ovules usually numerous, anatropous. 

 Fruit a capsule, berry or drupe. Seeds usually numerous and minute, or 

 sometimes only 1 in each cavity; endosperm fleshy. About 60 genera and 

 1100 species, of wide distribution. 



Lefroy records bringing an Azalea and a Bhododendron to Mount Lang- 

 ton and having them flower in a conservatory there. No native nor naturalized 

 plants of the family exist in the Bermuda flora. 



A species of Erica was growing at Wood Haven in 1914, recently planted. 

 Soils containing much lime are not suited to plants of this family. 



Order 2. PRIMULALES. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees. Corolla usually present, gamopetalous. Calyx 

 mostly free from the ovary. Stamens borne on the corolla, as many as its 

 lobes, or twice as many, or more. 



style 1 ; fruit a capsule ; herbs. Fam. 1. Pbimulaceae. 



Styles 5 ; fruit an achene or utricle : herbs. Fam. 2. Plumbaginaceae. 



Style 1 ; shrubs or trees, the fruit drupaceous. Fam. 3. Myrsixaceae. 



Family 1. PRIMULACEAE Vent. 



Primrose Family. 



Herbs, with perfect regular flowers. Calyx free from the ovary, usually 

 5-parted. Corolla gamopetalous in our species, usually 5-cleft, deciduous. 

 Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes and opposite them, inserted on the 

 corolla; filaments distinct, or connate at the base; anthers introrse, 2-celled, 

 the sacs longitudinally dehiscent. Disk obsolete, or none. Ovary superior, 

 1-celled; placenta central, free; ovules anatropous, or amphitropous; style 



