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nally pubescent. Stamina included; filaments hirsute, 

 equal in length with the anthers opening- by 2 terminal 

 pores, eacli pore bicornute. Torus, internally 10-toothed, 

 dentures alternating with the stamina. Style cylindric 

 tubulous, the base immersed in the germ; stigmas 5, in- 

 ternally adnate. Germ roundish, 5-angled, 5-celled, cells 

 about 20-seeded. Seeds attached to the 5 lobes of the 

 central axis. — Very nearly allied to Pyrola.^ although mono- 

 petulous. 2- Shallon. Ph. Apparently an Arbutus; the ca- 

 iix is not caliculate, the peduncle appears to be merely 

 bibracteolate below the middle. 



or tills small genus there appears to be 4 other species 

 Indigenous to the mountains of tropical America, and 1 in 

 New Zealand. 



'9. YACCINIUM. Z. (Whortle-berry, Huckle- 

 berry.) 



Calix superior, 4 or 5 -toothed. Corolla ur- 

 ceolate or campanulate, 4 or S-cleft; border re- 

 llccted. Filaments inserted upon the germ. 

 Berry 4 or 5-celicd, many-seeded. (Stamina 

 sometimes 8.) 



Suffruticose or shrubby, gemmaceous; bud scales often 

 persistent, on the base of the small branches; leaves alter- 

 nate in some species sempervirent; ofien scattered with 

 resinous atoms; flowers pedicellate, solitary, axillary fas- 

 ciculate, or racemose. Berries edible, mostly dark pur- 

 ple. 



§ I. Leaves deciduous. 



Speci ES. 1 . V. staminenm. Berries large, partly pyriform 

 and green when ripe; bitter and scarcely edible. 2. aibicm. 

 5. ardoreum. The largest species of the genus in North 

 America; branches divaricated; flowers partly as in V. sta- 

 mineum; berries rather dry but sweet, with a granular 

 pulp. 4. dumosnm. Very low, and running profusely; ber- 

 ries perfecdy black, to appearance, conspicuously crown- 

 ed by the persistent calix. 5. frondosum. Berries and 

 under side of the leaves glaucous; fruit large and rarely 

 copious; agreeble, bui quickly deliquescent and subject 

 to be infested by the larva of insects. 6. paUidum. 7- rest- 

 voaum. Flowers reddish, angular. Fiuitnot much esteem- 

 ed. 8. corymbosum. Fruit subacid, and agreeable, as uell 

 as diat of th following. 9. amoetiim. 10. xir gat um. H. 

 Juscatum. 12. galezaiis. 13. ligiistHnum 14. tenetltim^ 

 ■ Sometimes called " Sugar Huckleben-ies/' small and ra- 



