ERICACE/E 



Leaves alternate, lower ones bipinnate or tripinnate, upper pinnate, seg- 

 ments hair-like, fragrant, glabrous or soiiiewhat pubescent, deep green. 



A deciduous shrub, 2-4 ft. ; Stem straight, puberulent or glabrous, much 

 branched ; Branelies short, erect or ascending. 



Native of S. Europe; introduced about 1548. Also called I^ad's-love and 

 Old Man. Generic name Artemisia derived from Artemis, one of the names 

 of Diana. 



SAGE BUSH, Artemisia tridentata. 



Gardens. A small erect bushy shrub covered with a dense silvery-grey 

 tomentum, and exhaling a strong and agreeable odour. August. 



Fknvers yellowish, all perfect and fertile, in a dense pauiele of eapitula, 

 5-8-flowered ; sessile or nearly so ; involucre oblong, tomentose ; inner bracts 

 oblong ; outer short, ovate, obtuse ; Anthers obtuse, entire at base ; Fruit a 

 cypsela. 



Leaves alternate, 3-7-toothed, apex truncate, narrowly cuneate at base, 

 ^1| in. long, |-i in. wide, silvery tomentose. 



An evergreen shrub, 4-5 ft. ; much branched, silvery canescent. 



Native of Western U.S.A. 



Class I Dicotyledons 



Division III. . . . Gamopetalce 

 Natural Order . . . Ericaceae 



Mostly evergreen shrubs, occasionally growing into small trees, with 

 simple, exstipulate leaves and hermaphrodite flowers, regular or nearly so, 

 mostly white or red ; Ca/i/.r gamosepalous, 4-5-toothed or lobed, superior or 

 inferior; ('o/o/la usually gamopetalous, 4-5-cleft or toothed, sometimes per- 

 sistent ; Stanieiis usually twice as many as corolla lobes, hypogynous or 

 epigynous, anthers dehiscing by pores or slits, often appendiculate ; Ovary 

 superior or inferior, 4-5-celled, placentation axile ; Fruit a capsule or berry. 



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