6i:- DICliiCIA TRIANDRIA. 



TRIANDRIA. 



EMPETRUM. Gen. pi. iioo. 

 MASC. Cal. 3-partiuis. Cc?-. 3-petala. .S/dw. longa, 

 FEM. Cal. 3-pai-titus. Cor. 3-petala. Styli 9. 

 Bacca 9-fperma. 



nigrufn j. EMPETRUM procumbens. Sj>. pi. 1450. (Ger. 

 em. 1383./. 9.; r ' . 

 Black-berried Heath, Crow, or Crake-berries* 



AngUs. 

 Preas-nam-Fiantag. Fiantaga. Dearca-fithich. 



Gaidis. 

 It is frequently found both in the dryeft and moft 

 barren rocky foils, and in bogs and moorifh 

 grounds. T^ . V» 

 This is a fmall decumbent fhrub, with branches a 

 foot long. Its outer bark brown and decidu- 

 ous, the interior yellow. The branches are rough, 

 with the remainder of the pedicles of fuch leaves 

 as are fallen off. The leaves are numerous, and 

 crowded, thick and firm, of a Imall elliptic 

 figure, divided in the middle by a white nerve, 

 and generally grow verticillate, four in a whirl. 

 The flowers are axillary and fcllile. The calyx is 

 of a pale green colour, the petals reddifh. The 

 filaments very long and red, the anthera and 

 piitils almoft black. The berries are green at 

 -"^■i firft, but black when ripe. This fhrub has been 



fometimes found with hermaphrodite flowers, but 



very rarely. 



The 



