: X X Capsule ng. 
Corolla funnel. or bell-shaped, 5-cleft ; stamens 5 or 10, declinate ; 
Vaceinium.} ERICACER. : : 85 
ERICACEZ. 
Calyx more or less deeply 5- or 4-lobed or -toothed, the tube 
adnate to the ovary or quite free, sometimes very short. Corolla 
tudinal slits. Hypogynous disk very small or none. Ovary 
usually with as many cells as corolla-lobes, rarely more or fewer 
trees, terrestrial or epiphytic, with simple, usually alternating, penni- 
nerved or 3-nerved leaves. Flowers solitary and axillary, in short 
other kinds. The young shoots and foliage of Andromeda ovalifolia 
* Ovary inferior ; Sruit indehiscent, succulent. 
Calyx 4-5-toothed or -lobéd or -cleft; corolla tubular, campanulate 
or urceolate ; anther-cells produced in a shorter or longer Pe: 
tube; ovary-cells as many as corolla-lobes . . .  . Vaccinium. 
* * Ovary superior. 
x Capsule dry, loculicidally opening. 
Corolla globular to tubular-urceolate, with .a 5-toothed reflexed 
limb; stamens 10, enclosed ; the anthers shortly one-awned ; 
Calyx 2-bracted at base; corolla ovate-urceolate, with a 5-cleft 
revolute limb ; stamens 10, the anthers 2-cleft, the cells. ter- 
hating in 2 awns; hypogynous scales 10, usually uni 
at base ; calyx fleshy and berry-like “cates 
psule dry, septicidally openi 
Andromeda, 
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VACCINIUM, L. 
Calyx adnate to the ovary, the limb 4- or 5-lobed. Corolla 
tubular-bell-shaped or urceolate, 4- or 5-lobed or -cleft. Stamens 
