264 DECAXDRIA. MOXOGYXIA, 



ther too saccharine, but a very agree able fruit, brought ir. 

 great quantities to the t^hiladelphia market. 15. uligino- 

 sum. The European Whortle-berry. 16. miirtilloides. 17. 

 acspitosum. 



§ II. Leans sejnpervirent . 



18. Vitisldoea. Berries scarlet, farinaceous and insipid. 

 A small subalpine species, indigenous also to the north of 

 Europe. 19. myrtifoUum. 20. crasaifoUum. A variety proba- 

 bly of the following. 21. nitidnm. Branches procumbent and 

 repent. — From Virginia to Georgia. '22.myrs'i7iites. 23. bux- 

 ifoliinn. 24. ovafinn. 25. obtvsum. These 2 last are indi- 

 genous to the North West coast. 



A North American genus, with the exception of 3 

 species in Europe, 1 m Jamaica, 1 in the island of Tahei- 

 li in the Pacific, 1 indigenous to Madeira and Cappado- 

 cia, and 3 in Japan. 



580, ANDROMEDA. Z. 



Cfl/ia; 5-parted« minute, inferior. CcfrallamoY^. 

 or less ovate, or siibcylindric, smooth; border 

 5-cleft, reflected. Capsule 5-celled, 5-vaIved; 

 valves producing dissepiments from the middle, 

 margins naked. 



A genus not altogether natural, including species of 

 various aspects; they are mostly shrubs, in A.arborea and 

 A. pyrifoliay bordering upon trees, 4 species indigenous 

 to Siberia and the coldest parts of Europe, with 2 near 

 the extremity of South America, resemble the genus 

 Erica, and are amongst the most humble suffrutices; the 

 leaves of most are alternate and sempervirent; flowers ax- 

 illary and terminal, rarely solitary, more commonly aggre- 

 gated, or racemose, in 2 or 3 species paniculated, pro- 

 tected by gemmaceous and proper bractes. (Seeds nu- 

 merous, angular, usually tnmcate at one extremity, 

 transversely attached to a 5 lobed pendulous receptacle, 

 septa of the valves bipartile in A. caUculaiu.) 



Species. 1. A. teti^ugona. In Canada. 2. hypnoides. 

 North West coast. S-polifoha. Common also to Europe. 

 5. caliculata. Obs. Flowers unilateral, axillar}, solitary, 

 approximating towards the end of the bi-anches in the 

 manner of a raceme; calix bibracteate; capsvde roundish, 

 coated; septa spontaneously bipartile in a longitudinal 

 direction, exhibiting 5 distinct capsules primarily at- 

 tached to a common axis openmg externally, and con- 

 nected by a 5-parted external envelope, seeds n4i- 

 imerous, truncatei angular, transversely accumulated. 



