702 FLORA. 



quite glabrous; sepals acute, hirsute or ciliate, longer than the capsule, at length 

 deciduous ; capsule depressed, about 3 mm. in diameter, glabrous. In moist pine- 

 barrens, Va. to Fla. May-Aug. 



9. PHYLLODOCE Salisb. 



Low branching shrubs, with small crowded linear obtuse evergreen leaves. 

 Flowers long-pedicelled, nodding, mostly pink, blue or purple, in terminal umbels. 

 Pedicels bracted at the base. Calyx 5 -parted, persistent. Corolla contracted at 

 the throat, 5 -toothed. Stamens 10, included; anthers attached to the filaments by 

 their backs, oblong, obtuse, the sacs dehiscent by oblique chinks. Disk obscurely 

 lobed. Ovary 5-celled; ovules numerous; style included; stigma obscurely 5-lobed, 

 or capitate. Capsule subglobose or globose- oblong. 5-valved to about the middle. 

 Seeds minute, the testa coriaceous. [Greek, a sea nymph.] Three species, of 

 arctic and alpine regions of the northern hemisphere. 



I. Phyllodoce coerulea (L.) Gren. & Godr. MOUNTAIN HEATH. (I. F. f. 

 2760.) A shrub, 1-1.5 dm. high. Leaves yew-like, 6-10 mm. long, articulated 

 with the branches, crowded above, the margins acutish, scabrous or serrulate- 

 ciliolate; pedicels erect, very glandular, elongating in fruif; corolla 8-10 mm. long, 

 about 4 mm. in diameter, pink or purple; sepals acuminate, glandular; capsule 

 erect, about 4 mm. high. Summits of the higher mountains of Me. and N. H. ; 

 Mt. Albert, Quebec; Lab. to Alaska. Also in Europe and Asia. July-Aug. 



10. CASSIOPE D. Don. 



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

 crowded, entire apparently veinless leaves, and solitary peduncled white or pink 

 nodding flowers. Sepals 4 or 5, not bracted at the base. Corolla campanulate, 

 4~5-lobed or 4-5 -parted. Stamens 8-10, included; filaments glabrous ; anthers 

 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, of the colder parts of the northern 

 hemisphere. Besides the following, 3 others occur in northwestern N. Am. 



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



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



1. Cassiope hypnoides (L.) D. Don. MOSS-PLANT. CASSIOPE. (I. F. f. 

 2761.) Glabrous, 2.5-7.5 cm. high. Leaves imbricated, acute, flat above, convex 

 beneath, 2-4 mm. long; flowers 6-8 mm. broad; peduncles erect, 8-24 mm. long; 

 corolla nearly white; style conic; capsule globose, about 3 mm. in diameter, 23 

 times as long as the ovate calyx-lobes. Summits of the higher mountains of 

 N. Eng. and the Adirondacks; Quebec and Lab. to arctic Am. Abo in arctic 

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



2. Cassiope tetragona (L.) D. Don. FOUR- ANGLED CASSIOPE. (1. F. f. 

 2762.) Tufted, 1-3 dm. high. Leaves imbricated, thick, ovate or ovate oblong, 

 closely appressed, channeled on the back, usually puberulent when young, 2-3 mm. 

 long; peduncles slender, 10-24 mm. long; flowers 6-8 mm. broad; style slightly 

 thickened below; capsule nearly globular, 2-3 mm. in diameter. Lab., Greenland 

 and Hudson Bay to Alaska and Ore. Also in Asia. Summer. 



it. LEUCOTHOE D. Don. (See Appendix.) 



Shrubs, mostly tall, with alternate petioled leaves, and small usually white 

 bracted flowers in racemes, jointed with their pedicels, or the pedicels jointed with 

 the rachis. Sepals 5, distinct. Corolla cylindric or ovoid-urceolate, 5-toothed. 

 Stamens 10, included; anthers attached to the filaments near their bases, oblong, 

 the sacs opening by terminal pores, obtuse, 2-mucronate or i-2-awned at the apex. 

 Disk lo-lobed. Ovary 5 celled; stigma capitate or 5-lobed; ovules numerous. 

 Capsule depressed-globose, often 5-lobed, 5-valved, the valves membranous, entire. 

 Seeds numerous, minute. [Name mythological.] About 35 species, natives of 

 N. and S. Am. and eastern Asia. 



