262 HEATH FAMILY. 



•w. ++ Floii;ers spicate or rncpmose. 

 = Stylp strongly declined and upwardly curved; corolla shalhrw. 



C. Americana, Linn. Rich moist ground especially W. ; stem 3"-6° 

 high, thin, lance-ovate, taper-pointed, serrate leaves, and long loose spike 

 of flowers, the almost wheel-shaped, light-blue corolla 1' broad, and long 

 curved style. ® @ 



= = Style straight; corolla deep. 



C. rapuncu/o'ides, Linn. Spreading inveterately by the root, sparsely 

 hairy, the erect leafy stems l°-2° high, with lowest leaves heart-shaped 

 and petioled, upper lance-ovate and sessile, nodding flowers in the axil 

 of bracts forming a leafy raceme, and tubular-bell-shaped corolla 1' long. 

 Cult, and escaped. Eu. 21 ■ 



C. Trachelium, Linn. l?oudush -hairy, 2°-3° high, with more coarsely 

 toothed and broader leaves than the last, and rather larger bell-shaped 

 corolla. Gardens. Eu. 2/ 



•C. persicifdiia, Linn, bmonth, with upright stems l°-2',° high, and 

 bearing small lance-linear leaves, root leaves broader, all beset with 

 minute, close teeth ; the flowers nearly sessile and erect, rather few in a 

 sort of raceme, the open bell-shaped corolla lA'-2' long, sometimes double. 

 Cult. Eu. 2/ 



LXIV. ERICACEiE, HEATH FAMILY. 



A very large family, of shrubs, herbs, or even small tiees, 

 difficiilt to define as a whole ; the leaves are simple and mostly 

 alternate (sometimes reduced to white or colored scales) ; the 

 flowers almost all regular, and with as many or twice as many 

 stamens as there are petals or lobes of the corolla ; their 

 ailthers 2-celled, each cell more commonly opening by a pore 

 or hole at the end ; ovary mostly with as many cells as there 

 are lobes to the corolla; style only one, and seeds small. The 

 Heath and Heather (the former cult, in some greenliouses 

 in several species, and the latter sparingly wdld E.) belong to 

 tlus family, and are distinguished by small or needle-like ever- 

 green leaves, the corolla becoming dry and persisting, its lobes, 

 and those of the calyx, 4 ; stamens 8. 



T. WHORTLEBEREY SUBFA]\riLY, known by having 

 the tube of the calyx adherent to' the ovary, on which the 

 monopetalous corolla and the stamens are therefore mounted. 

 All are shrubs, with scaly buds. Fruit a berry or berry-like. 



1. GATLUSS.\CL\.. St.nmens 10 ; anthers with the cells ojienint,'- by a chiuk at the blunt 



or tjiperinB top. Ovary 10-ceIled with one ovule in each cell, foi-ming a berry-like 

 fruit contaiuiufT 10 apparent seeds, or properly little stones. Flowers in lateral ra- 

 cemes ; branchlets and leaves beset with resinous or clammy dots. 



2. VACCINII'M. Stamens 10 or S ; anthers taperinff up into a tube with a hole at the 



top. Ovary with several or many ovules in e^ich cell, forniinjj a pulpy uiauy-secUed 

 (rarely rather few-seeded) berry. 



