226 Crow- Berry (Empetrdcece) 



A low or prostrate shrub, spreading thickly over a 

 surface from one to two feet in diameter. 



Herb Willow. Arctic Willow. S. herbcicece, L. 



Leaves, about one inch long, nearly round. Base, hear 

 shaped, toothed, veiny, smooth, and shining. 



Found, on 'the high summits of the mountains of New 

 England and far northward. 



The smallest of its family, with half underground 

 creeping stems, and branches that seldom rise more than 

 one or two inches above the surface. 



33. Family EMPETRACE^. (Crow-Berry Fam.) 

 Genus COREMA, Don. (Broom Crow-Berry.) 



From a Greek word meaning " broom." 



Fig. 114. Broom Crow-Berry. C. Conrddii, Torr. 



Flowers, sometimes in the staminate and pistillate forms, 

 and on different bushes ; in terminal heads of ten to 

 fifteen blossoms, each blossom in the axil of a scaly 

 bract. Corolla, lacking. Stamens, three (rarely four), 

 long and purple. Style, slender, mostly three-cleft. 

 Seed-case, three- to four-celled, not adherent to the 

 calyx. March, April. 



Leaves, evergreen, one quarter inch long, very narrow, 

 almost line-like, short, crowded, margins entire and 

 rolled under. 



Fruit, round, minute, with three (sometimes four or five) 

 small nutlets ; a drupe. 



