Ericaceae. 



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Chiogenes. Moxie Plum. 

 (Family Ericaceae). 



Low very delicate aromatic 

 trailing shrubs: evergreen. Stems 

 filiform, brown-chaffy, terete: pith 

 minute. Buds solitary, sessile, 

 ovoid, appressed, minute, with 

 about 2 exposed scales. Leaf- 

 scars alternate, low, minute, cres- 

 cent-shaped: bundle-trace 1, scarce- 

 ly discernible: stipule - s c a r s 

 lacking. Leaves small, subellipti- 

 cal, acute, short-petioled, entire. 



In some respects the creeping 

 snowberry, as Chiogenes is called 

 sometimes because of its white 

 fruit, is the most attractive and 

 dainty of our woody plants, and 

 it is rarely seen except by close 

 observers because of its habit of 

 growth and its small size. The 

 name capillaire given it by the 

 French Canadians expresses well 

 the delicacy of its stem. Like the wintergreen, it is pleas- 

 Stem brown-chaffy: leaves slightly chaffy beneath. 



C. hispidula. 



