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1. S. perfoliata, A. DC. Somewhat hairy ; leaves roundish or ovate, 

 clasping by the heart-shaped base, toothed; flowers sessile, solitary or 2-3 to- 

 gether in the axils ; the upper and later ones only with a conspicuous expanding 

 (purple-blue) corolla ; pod oblong, opening rather below the middle. Dry Mia 

 or open fields ; common. May - Aug. 



ORDEK 62. ERICACEJ3. (HEATH FAMILY.) 



Shrubs, sometimes herbs, with the flowers regular or nearly so: the stamens 

 as many or twice as many as the 45-lobed or 4 - 5-petatted corolla, free 

 from but inserted with it: anthers 2-cetted, commonly appendaged or open- 

 ing by terminal chinks or pores: style 1 : ovary 3 -10-celled. Seeds small, 

 anatropous. Embryo small, or sometimes minute, in fleshy albumen. A 

 large family, very various in many of the characters, comprising four well- 

 marked suborders, as follows : 



SUBORDEB I. VACCINIE-32. THE WHORTLEBERRY FAMILY. 



Calyx-tube adherent to the ovary, which forms an edible berry or berry- 

 like fruit, crowned with the short calyx-teeth. Anthers 2-parted. Pollen 

 compound (of 4 united grains). Shrubs or somewhat woody plants, with 

 scaly buds. 



1. GAYLUSSACIA. Ovary 8 -10-celled, with a single ovule in each cell. Fruit a berried 



drupe with 8-10 email nutlets. 



2. VACCINItJM. Berry 4 - 6-ceUed (or imperfectly 8 -10-celled by false partitions), many- 



seeded. Anther-cells tapering upward into a tube. 



8. CHTOGENES. Berry 4-celled, many-seeded, its summit free. Anther-cells not prolonged 

 into a tube, but each 2-pointed. 



SUBORDER II. ERICINEJE. THE PROPER HEATH FAMILY. 



Calyx free from the ovary. Corolla monopetalous, or rarely nearly or 

 quite polypetalous, hypogynous. Pollen- of 4 united grains. Shrubs or 

 small trees. 



TRIBE I. ARBUTE.3E. Fruit indehiscent, a berry or drupe. Corolla deciduous. 

 4. ARCTOSTAPHYLOS. Corolla urn-shaped Drupe berry-like, 6 - 10-seeded. 

 TKIBE II. ANDROMEDEJE. Fruit a pod opening loculicidaUy. Corolla deciduout . 



* Anthers upright in the bud, the cells opening lengthwise. Corolla salver-shaped. 

 6 EPIG^EA. Calyx of 5 separate dry and pointed sepals. Anthers not appendaged. 

 * * Anthers upright in the bud, opening only at the top. Corolla monopetalous, either glob- 

 ular, urn-shaped, bell-shaped, or cylindrical. 

 - Calyx enlarged and berry -like in fruit. 



6. GAULTIIERIA. Calyx 6-cleft, hi fruit enclosing the small many -seeded pod. Anthers 4- 



awned at the top. 



*- *- Calyx dry, not becoming fleshy after flowering. 



7. LEUCOTHOE. Calyx imbricated hi the bud. Corolla cylindraceous. 5-toothed. Pod de- 



pressed, 6-lobed, the valves entire. 



8. CASSANDRA. Calyx imbricated. Corolla cylindraceous, 6-toothed. Pod splitting when 



ripe into an outer and inner layer, the inner of 10 valves. 



