ERICACEAE. 



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ENKIANTHUS. 

 (Family Ericaceae). 



Shrubs: deciduous. Twigs sub- 

 verticillate, slender, 3-sided or 

 rounded, often reddish: pith 

 rather small, roundish, continu- 

 ous. Buds minute, sunken and in 

 the notch of the leaf-scar, solitary, 

 sessile, indistinctly scaly, the ter- 

 minal flower-buds large, ovoid 

 and with some half-dozen mucro- 

 nate scales. Leaf-scars minute, 

 crescent-shaped or triangular, low: 

 bundle-trace 1, minute, round: 

 stipule-scars lacking. The small 

 oblong or ovoid 5-celled few-seeded 

 capsules are present in winter. 



Winter-characters of Enkian- 

 thus japonicus are given by 

 Shirasawa, 284, pi. 13. 



Like many of our common na- 

 tive Ericaceae, among them the 

 dwarf blueberries which cover 



barren hills in the Eastern States, these Asiatic species color 

 brilliantly in autumn. 

 Pedicels straight: capsules subglobose: sepals ovate. 



(1). E. subsessilis. 

 Pedicels bent: capsules oblong: sepals elongated. 



(2). E.campanulatus. 



