208 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
twice as many as the lobes or petals ; anthers 2-celled, often with awn-like appendages, 
cca bt by pores at the summit. Sytle 1. Ovary 3-10-celled. Fruit a 
or m. ~~ oo pips 
ng Orde ing some plants of a medicinal character, and & 
eeciber ‘that are ‘exceedingly teal cutifesl calla ecistey the Azaleas, Rhododendrons, Kalmias, 
and many species of the multitudinous genus (Erica) which is the te J ach wh pat? e family. 
1. He so ini Y SURYA: x. berry 
or berry-like fruit. Anther-cells agns distinct, 5 ae = ad by poop a yoo . 
Ovary 10-celled, with a single ovule in each cell, Berry with 8-10 
largish seeds or nutlets. 1. GaYLUSSACIA. 
4-5-celled, with several ovules in each cell. Berry many- " 
Vaccinium. 
§2. Heara Svp-rammy. Calyx free from the ovary. Corolla = 
ang of ‘nearly or quite distinct petals. Seed-coat mostly thin an 
c) 
Fruit a “eng rupe. 
Corolla dro ee off after Fea ng. 3. ARCTOSTAPHYLOS. 
Fruit berry-like ; the citeg fal ing enlarged and fleshy. 
yee 4-awned wot. ; 4. GAULTHERIA. 
ry pod ; hes not enlarging. 
Coron ovate ee eee 8 id ere 5-toothed. 5. ANDROMEDA, 
— - bell-shaped or whee L-shaped, with 10 depressions or ‘ 
Corolla of 5 separate petals. 
§3. Pyrora Sup-rammty. Calyx free from the ovary, 5-parted, per- 
sistent. Corolla of SA separate petals. Seeds with a loose transpa- 
an 
Flowers in a c Gory mb er wiht Style very short ; stigma broad and 
orbicular. 8. CHIMAPHILA. 
1. GAYLUSSA’CIA, . B. K. Hucxieserry 
[Dedicated to Gay Lussac, a distinguished French Came 
poi ovoid or bell-shaped ; the border 5-cleft. Stamens 10 ; anthers 
thg cells , Png and tubular above, eatin by a pore or 
summit. ly a berry-like drupe, containing 10 nutlets. 
y d ee utire. Branching shrubs, commonly 
sprinkled with resinous ate wales white (purple or red tinged) flowers 
in bracted racemes. 
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1 G. frondo’sa, Torr. § Gr. Smooth ; leaves obovate-oblong, obtuse, 
glaucous benea: » bracts oblong oF linear, Soetnem shorter than the 
Sake drooping pedicels ; coro’ oid campanulate 
Leary Gassossuca oe Blue Tangles 
2. ma resino’sa, “Torr Gr. Pubescent hile oung ; leayes oblong 
oval, at first ciliate rs 4 Pant dots eres bracts 
and bractlets (reddish) small and deciduous ; corolla ovoid-conical 
Restrous Gayiussacta. Black Huckleberry. 
_ Stem 1-3 feet high, much branched. Leaves 1-3 inches long, thick’ with 
rar a eee et tae ee Menem Benoa] eS ane 
