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Orokb XCIII. EMPETRACEjE.— Crowbbrries. 



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,11 arid shrubs with heat! rgreen leaves without stipules, and minute 



rs in their arils. Flowers . * . Sepals, hypogynous persistent imbricat 

 the innermost of which are Bometimes petaloid, or 

 even combined into ;i raonopetalous corolla (as in 

 Oakesia). / Stamens equal in number to the inner 

 Bepals, and alternate with them ; anthers roundish, 

 2-celled, the cells distinct, bursting longitudinally. 

 i >va ;. free, seated in ;i flesh) disk, -c< lied ; 



ovules solitary, anatropal, ascending; Btyle 1 ; 

 stigma radiating, the number of it- rays correspond, 

 ing with the cells of the ovary. Fruit fleshy, seated 

 in the persistenl calj k, U< '1 : the coating 



of the cells bony. Seeds solitary, ascending ; i mbryo 

 taper, in the axis of fleshy wat< rj albumen ; radicle 



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This little group can in nowise 1»' separated from 

 Spurgeworts, from which indeed it i- scarcely distin- 

 guishable by any positive character exc< pt the asc< n>i- 

 inu' seeds and inferior radicle. In habit too it quite 

 corresponds with such heath-like genera of Spurge- 

 worts ;i- Micrantheaand Pseudanthus, which ilo not 

 seem to differ from that i hrder. 



A \ ery small group, comprising :i f< w specii - from 

 the North of Europe, North Ainerica, the South of * 

 Europe, and the Straits <<\' Magellan. 



The l>-:i\t^ :in«l fruit are Blightly acid. The black 

 berries ol theCrowberrj . Empetrum nigrum, sub-acid 

 and unpleasant to the taste, an eaten in the arctic 

 parts of Europe, and are regarded there as Bcorbutic 

 and 'hurt tii- ; tin- Greenlanders prepare :i fermenti 1 

 liquor from them. The white berries of th«- Cama- 

 riuheira (Corema) are employed b) the Portugu 

 in preparing an acidulous beverage, which the 

 mestic physicians esteem in fevers. i . c \< \ ti 



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