ERICACE^. (heath FAMILY.) 229 



teeth (i to 1^ inches long) : pedicels solitary in tlie axils, very short : corolla 

 depressed-campanuhite, little exceeding the calyx : apex of anthers obscurely 

 4-pointed: fruit scarlet, with pine-apple flavor. — In the niomitains fron'i 

 Colorado and Utah to British America ami westward. 



4. BRYANTHUS, Steller, Gmelin. 



HeatJi-like alpine evergreens ; with much crowded linear-<jhtu8e leaves 

 (^ inch or less long). In ours the flowers are racemose-clustered at the suin- 

 niit of the branches, the pedicels glandular and subtended by foliaccous and 

 rigid bracts, and the almost smooth leaves have strongly revolute thickened 

 margins. 



1. B. empetriformis, Gray. A span or more high: pedicels some- 

 wliat umbellate : corolla rose-color, 2 or 3 lines long, campanulate, barely 

 5-lol)ed ; the lobes much shorter than the tube : stamens included : style 

 either included or exserted. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 377. Mountains of W 

 Wyoming, Montana, and northwestward. 



5. KALMIA, L. American Laurel. 



Leaves evergreen and entire: the showy flowers umbellate-clustered, rose- 

 colored, purple or white: limb of the corolla in bud strongly 10-keeled from 

 the pouches upward, the salient keels running to the apex of the lobes and 

 to the sinuses. 



1. K. glauca, Ait. Shrub 1 or 2 feet high, glabrous, mostly glaucous, 

 branchiets 2-edged : leaves all opposite or rarely in threes, almost sessile, ob- 

 long or linear-oblong, or appearing narrower by the usual strong revolution 

 of the edges, glaucous-white beneath: flowers in spring in a simple terminal 

 umbel or corymb, lilac-purple, ^ to i inch in diameter. — Bogs, Colorado 

 and northward, thence eastward across the continent. The forms extending 

 southward into the Colorado mountains are depauperate alpine forms a span 

 high and with leaves barely i inch long (var. microphijUa, Hook.). 



6. LEDUM, L. Labrador Tea. 



Low shrubs, with alternate persistent leaves, which are entire and more or 

 less resinous-dotted, slightly fragrant when bruised : flowers white, devel- 

 oped in early summer from terminal or sometimes lateral buds ; poilicels 

 recurved in fruit. 



1. L. glandule sura, Nutt. Shruh 2 to 6 feet high, stout : leaves oblong 

 or oval, or approaching lanceolate (1 or 2 ii.ches long), glabrous both sides, 

 pale or whitish and minutely resinous-atomiferous beneath : inflorescence often 

 compound and crowded: cap.sules oval, retuse. — From California nt)rth\vard 

 and eastward iuto British America, occurring in the northwestern border of 

 our range. 



7. MONESES, Salisb. 



Cells of the anther oblong, abruptly constricted under the orifice into « 

 conspicuous short-tubular neck. 



