47. ERICACEAE. 211 



7. C. Rapunculus (L.) ; 1. crenate, root-1. elliptic-lanceolate 

 narrowed into a petiole, stem-1. linear-lanceolate, panicle erect 

 racemose, cal.-segments subulate. E. B. 283. St. 3 feet high, 

 angular, rough. Fl. small, pale blue. Cal.-segments entire. 

 Sandy soil in the south. P. VII. VIII. Rampions. E. 



8. C. patula (L.); 1. crenate, root-1. oblong-elliptical narrowed 

 into a petiole, stem-1. linear-lanceolate, panicles lax, fl. on long 

 stalks erect, cal.-segments toothed at thebase subulate. E. B. 42. 

 St. 2 feet high, terminating in a very loose spreading panicle. 

 Fl. purplish-blue, funnelshaped, open. Hedges and thickets. 

 B. VII. VIII. E. 



5. SPECULARIA Heist. 



1. S. kybrida(K. DC.); st. simple or branched, 1. slightly cre- 

 nate wavy oblong sessile, lower 1. spathulate, cal. scabrous, seg- 

 ments lanceolate longer than the cor. shorter than the ovary. 

 Campanula Sm., E. B. 375. St. 6 12 in. high, rough with 

 rigid minute hairs. Fl. few, terminal, solitary, small. Corn- 

 fields. A. VI. IX. E. S. 



6. WAHLENBERGIA Schrad. 



1. W. hederacea (Reich.); 1. roundish-cordate angularly 5-lobed 

 stalked alternate, st. filiform prostrate, peduncles solitary, "seeds 

 punctate." Campanula Sm., E. B. 73. St. branched and creep- 

 ing to a great extent. Peduncles longer than the leaves. Fl. pale 

 blue, at first nodding, afterwards erect. Cal.-segments subulate. 

 Caps, nearly globose. Damp peaty places in the south and west. 

 P. VII. VIII. Ivy-leaved Bell-flower. 



Order XLVTL ERICACE^l. 



Cal. 4 5-parted, persistent. Cor. monopetalous, 4 5-parted, 

 usually regular and marcescent. Stam. 8 10. Anth. 2-celled, 

 opening by pores and often appendaged. Ovary surrounded by 

 a disk or scales, free or adhering to the corolla. Fr. capsular or 

 baccate with several cells, many-seeded. 



Tribe I. ARBUTE^E. Fr. baccate, fleshy. Anth. 2-celled. Disk 

 hypogynous. 



1. ARBUTUS. Cal. 5-parted. Cor. globose or ovate-cam- 

 panulate with a small contracted 5-cleft reflexed border, de- 

 ciduous. Stam. 10, with flattened filaments. Anth. com- 

 pressed, with 2 pores at the apex, fixed at the back beneath 

 the apex and there furnished with 2 reflexed awns. Berry 

 globose, granular j cells 5, many-seeded. 



