EMPETRACEAE. 



[VOL. II. 



i. Corema Conradii Torr. Conrad's 

 Broom Crowberry. (Fig. 2344.) 



Km pet rum Conradii Ton. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 4: 83. 



1837. 

 Corema Conradii Torr.; Loudon, Encycl. Trees, 



1092. 1842. 



Much branched, 6 / -2 high, the young twigs 

 puberulent and densely leafy, the branches 

 minutely scarred by the persistent pulvini. 

 Leaves 2"-$" long, rather less than %" wide, 

 obtuse, glabrous when mature, bright green; 

 flowers numerous in the terminal sessile heads, 

 the pistillate ones almost concealed by the 

 upper leaves, the staminate conspicuous by the 

 exserted purple stamens; drupes nearly dry, 

 less than i" in diameter. 



In rocky or sandy soil, Newfoundland to New 

 Jersey, mostly near the coast, but occurring in one 

 station on the Shawangunk Mountains in Ulster 

 Co., N. Y. Local. Usually growing in large 

 patches. April-May. 



1822. 



Family 60. BUXACEAE Duniort. Coinni. Hot. 54. 



B<\ FVMII.Y. 



Monoecious or dioecious trees, shrubs or perennial herbs, with alternate or 

 opposite simple mostly evergreen leaves, the sap not milky. Flowers clustered 

 or solitary, regular, bracted, with or without a perianth (calyx). Petals none. 

 Staminate flowers with 4-7 distinct stamens, the anthers 2-celled; sometimes 

 with a rudimentary pistil. Pistillate flowers with a 2-4-celled (mostly 3-celled) 

 ovary, with 2 or i anatropous ovules in each cavity; styles as many as the 

 ovary-cavities, simple. Fruit a capsule or drupe, its carpels i-2-seeded. Km- 

 bryo straight; endosperm fleshy, or almost wanting. 



About 6 genera and 30 species, only the following and the California!! Simmondsia in North 

 America. 



i. PACHYSANDRA Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 177. 1803. 



Monoecious perennial herbs, with matted rootstocks, the stems procumbent or ascending, 

 leafy above, scaly or naked below. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, petioled, persistent, broad, 

 3-nerved, coarsely toothed, or entire. Flowers spicate, the pistillate and staminate in the 

 same spike. Staminate flowers with 4 sepals; stamens 4, opposite the sepals; filaments 

 thick, long-exserted; anthers 2-celled, the sacs longitudinally dehiscent. Pistillate flowers 

 with 4 sepals or more; ovary 3-celled, the cavities with a partition at the base; styles 3, 

 spreading; ovules 2 in each cavity. Capsule of 3 2-seeded carpels. [Greek, thick stamen.] 



Two species, the following of southeastern North America, the other Japanese. 



i. Pachysandra procumbens Michx. 

 Alleghany Mountain Spurge. (Fig. 2345.) 



Pachysandra procumbens Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 177. 

 pi. 45 1803. 



Somewhat pubescent; stems stout, simple, i 

 long or less. Leaves ovate, oval, or obovate, 2'-4' 

 long, obtuse or acutish at the apex, coarsely den- 

 tate or some of them entire, cuneate or abruptly 

 narrowed at the base into a petiole shorter than or 

 equalling the blade; spikes i or several in the 

 axils of the lower scales, densely many-flowered, 

 2 / ~3 / long, the staminate flowers forming most of 

 the spike, the pistillate few toward its base; sepals 

 green or purplish; filaments white, 4 // -5 // long. 



In woods. West Virginia to Florida and Louisiana. 

 Flowers fragrant. April-May. 



