Voi,. II.] 



HEATH FAMILY. 



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g. PHYLLODOCE Salisb. Farad. Lond. pi. 36. 1806. 



Low branching more or less glandular shrubs, with small crowded linear obtuse coria- 

 ceous evergreen leaves. Flowers long-pedicelled, nodding, mostly pink, blue or purple, in ter- 

 minal umbels. Pedicels bracted at the base. Calyx 5-parted, persistent. Corolla ovoid, con- 

 tracted at the throat, 5-toothed. Stamens 10, included; filaments filiform; anthers attached to 

 the filaments by their backs, oblong, obtuse, awnless, the sacs dehiscent by terminal oblique 

 chinks. Disk obscurely lobed. Ovary 5 -celled; ovules numerous; style filiform, included; 

 stigma obscurely 5-lobed, or capitate. Capsule subglobose or globose-oblong, septicidally 5- 

 valved to about the middle. Seeds minute, the testa coriaceous. [Greek, a sea nymph.] 



Three species, natives of arctic and alpine regions of the northern hemisphere. Besides the 

 following, two others occur in northwest America. 



i. Phyllodoce coerulea (L/.) Gren.&Godr. 

 Mountain Heath. (Fig. 2760.) 



Andromeda coerulea L. Sp. PI. 393. 1753. 



A. taxifolia Pall. Fl. Ross, i: 54. pi. 72. f. 2. 1784. 



Phyllodoce coerulea Gren. & Godr. Fl. France 2: 434. 



1850. 



^fenziesia taxifolia Wood, First lessons, 185. 1856. 

 Bryanthus taxifolius A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 368. 



1868. 



A shrub 4 / -6 / high, the branches ascending. 

 Leaves yew-like, 3"-5" long, less than \" wide, 

 articulated with the branches, crowded above; the 

 margins acutish, scabrous or serrulate-ciliolate ; 

 pedicels erect, very glandular, 5 // -8 // long in 

 flower, elongating in fruit, solitary or 2-6 at the 

 ends of the branches; corolla 4 // ~5 // long, about 2" 

 in diameter, pink or purple, heath-like; sepals 

 lanceolate, acuminate, glandular; capsule erect, 

 about 2" high. 



Summits of the higher mountains of Maine and New 

 Hampshire; Mt. Albert, Quebec; Labrador and through 

 arctic America to Alaska. Also in northern and al- 

 pine Europe and Asia. July-Aug. 



10. CASSIOPE D. Don, Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 17: 157. 1834. 



Low tufted branching heath-like evergreen shrubs, with small sessile densely imbricated 

 or crowded, entire apparently veinless leaves, and terminal or axillary solitary peduncled 

 white or pink nodding flowers. Sepals 4 or 5, imbricated at least in the bud, not bracted at 

 the base, persistent, or at length deciduous. Corolla campanulate, 4-5-lobed or 4-5- parted, 

 the lobes spreading or recurved. Stamens 8-10, included; filaments subulate, glabrous, an- 

 thers attached to the filaments near the apex, the sacs opening by large terminal pores and 

 tipped with a recurved awn. Disk lo-crenate. Ovary 4~5-celled; ovules numerous; stigma 

 simple. Capsule globose or ovoid, 4-5-valved, each valve 2-cleft at the apex. Seeds minute, 

 numerous. [Name from Cassiope, mother of Andromeda.] 



About 10 species, natives of the colder parts of the northern hemisphere. Besides the following, 

 3 others occur in the northwestern parts of North America. 



Peduncle terminal; corollas-cleft; leaves subulate, crowded. i. C. hypnoides. 



Peduncles lateral ; corolla 5-lobed ; leaves thick, 4- ranked. 2. C. tetragona. 



i. Cassiope hypnoides (L/.) D. Don. Moss-plant. Cassiope. (Fig. 2761.) 



Andromeda hypnoides L. Sp. PI. 393. 1753. 

 Cassiope hynoides D. Don, Edinb. New Phil. 

 Journ. 17: 157. 1834. 



Densely tufted, glabrous, usually much 

 branched, I'-tf high. Leaves linear-sub- 

 ulate, densely crowded and imbricated, 

 somewhat spreading or appressed, acute, 

 flat above, convex beneath, i // -2 // long; 

 flowers solitary, terminating the branches, 

 3"-4" broad; peduncles very slender; 

 erect, 4 // -i2 // long; corolla deeply 5-cleft, 

 nearly white; style conic; capsule globose, 

 about \y z " in diameter, 2-3 times as long 

 as the ovate calyx-lobes. 



Summits of the higher mountains of New 

 England and the Adirondacks of New York; Quebec and Labrador to arctic America. Also in arctic 

 Europe and Asia. Plant with the aspect of a moss. Summer. 



