392 THE KINDS OF PLANTS 



monopetalous and 4- or 5-cleft: stamens hypogynous, as many or 

 twice as many as petals, anthers usually opening by terminal pores: 

 style 1 : ovary generally as many celled as corolla has lobes. A large 

 family, represented by Heaths, Cranberry, Azaleas, Arbutus, Laurel. 



A. Shrubs, or creeping shrubby plants. 

 B. Ovary inferior: fruit a berry. 



o. Berry lO-seeded 1. Gaylussacia 



cc. Berry many-seeded 2. Vaccinium 



BB. Ovary superior. 



c. Low creeping or procumbent. 



D. Fruit berry-lilse: leaves aromatic 3. GauUheria 



DD. Fruit dry 4. Epigwa 



cc. Shrubs, erect. 



E. Corolla broadly open, with 10 little pouches 



holding the anthers .5. Knlmia 



EE. Corolla bell-shaped, no pockets: flowers 



from terminal, scaly buds 6. Azalea 



AA. Parasitic herbs, destitute of green fol'age, about the 



roots of trees 7. Monotropa 



1. GAYLUSSACIA. Low-bush Huckleberry. 



Shrubs low and branching, leaves and branches sometimes witn resinous 

 dots: leaves alternate, entire or serrate: flowers in lateral racemes, small, 

 white or pink, nodding on bracted pedicels, in late spring: corolla bell-like 

 or ovoid, with 5 lobes erect or reflexing: stamens 10, usually included: 

 ovary 10-celled: fruit berry-like, containing 10 little stones, blue or black, 

 sweet and edible, ripe in late summer. 



G. resindsa. Torr. & Gray. Highland huckleberrij. Shrub, 1 to 3 ft., 

 with stiff branches and deciduous entire oval leaves, sprinkled with 

 resinous dots: flowers, in one-sided racemes: corolla white, tinged with 

 pink, cylindrical or somewhat 5-angled, and contracted at margin: berry 

 bhick, not glaucous. 



G. fronddsa, Torr. & Gray. Tangle-berry. Shrub 1 to 3 ft., with stiff 

 spreading branches: leaves oblong to obovate, thin, smootli and pale below, 

 resinous-dotted: corolla white, tinged with pink, short: berry large, dark 

 blue, with a bloom. 



2. VACClNIUM. Blueberry. Cranberry. Bilberry. High-bush Huckle- 



berry. 



Shrubs much resembling Gaylussacia, but the ovary only 4- to 5-celled, 

 although appearing to have twice as many cells by false partitions: fruit a 

 many-seeded berry, generally edible. Fruit ripe in summer and autumn. 



V. Pennsylvinicum, Lam. Divarf earl;/ blueberry. Shrub, 6 to 20 in., 

 with sinootli green warty branches: leaves deciduous, lance-oblong, smooth 

 and glossy, but edges serrated and tipped with little bristly spines: flowers 



