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long, few, in a rather close cluster, half hidden by the foliage. 

 Fruit a dry pod, -with a fleshy white interior. In dry woods. 

 Newfoundland to Florida, and westward. April. Fig. 668. 

 See No. ']2(^. 



669. Creeping Snowberry. Chiogenes hispidula. {Vaccinia- 

 ceae.) A creeping prostrate plant with a rough-hairy, very 

 slender, woody stem. Leaves alternate, shining, oval, stalk- 

 less, evergreen, about % in. long. Flowers solitary at the leaf 

 joints, short-stalked, nodding. Corolla short bell-shaped, 

 about % in. long. Fruit a white berry, about 34 ^^- ^^ diam- 

 eter. June. In cold woods, or in bogs. Newfoundland to 

 No. Carolina, only in the uplands, and westward to northern 

 Michigan and British Columbia. Often on Alpine summits. 

 June. Fig. 669. 



670. Leaves opposite, or clustered, or crowded, never alter- 

 nate (except the upper leaves of the Purslane Speedwell, No. 

 793, and the Butterfly-weed, No. 697). Nos. 671-797. 



Corolla decidedly unsymmetrical or distinctly 2-lipped. . .no. 738 

 Corolla regular and symmetrical, not 2-lipped. 

 Leaves more than 2 at a joint, often several, sometimes 



crowded no. 725 



Leaves truly opposite ; (clustered in tlie Closed Gentian, no. 

 673, and in two Milkweeds, nos. 702 and 704). 

 Leaves lobed, or divided, or with obvious marginal teeth 

 no. 708 



