68 ERICACE. (HEATH FAMILY.) 
lower mostly apetalous, with 3 or 4 short calyx-lobes; the upper with 5 longer calyx- 
lobes, which are shorter than the blue or purple corolla. Capsule with openings near 
the top. 
2. &. perfoliata, A. DC. Stouter, with clasping cordate leaves, 
8 HETEROCODON, Nutt. 
Flowers of two sorts. Stamens and styles as in Campanula. Capsule 3-angled. 
Otherwise sufficiently characterized in the synopsis. 
1. H. rariflorum, Nutt. <A delicate annual, with leafy filiform stems, diffusely 
branching; the thin leaves clasping by cordate bases, coarsely toothed. Corolla blue. 
4 CAMPANULA. Tourn. BELLFLOWER. 
Flowers all alike. Calyx-lobes narrow. Corolla campanulate or near it, 5-lobed. 
Stamens 5; filaments dilated at the base. Capsule 3-5-celled, opening on the sides o7 
near the base by 3 to 5 small uplifting valves leaving round holes. 
1. ©. prenanthoides, Dur. foot or two high; stems several-flowered; leaves 
ovate-oblong or lanceolate, sharply serrate, sessile, or the lower short-petioled; lobes of 
the blue corolla narrowly lanceolate, widely spreading; style long exserted; capsule 
5-ribbed. 
Orver 33. HBRICACHZ. 
Woody plants or perennial herbs, with symmetrical and mostly regular flowers; the 
stamens as many or twice as many as tle petals or lobes of the corolla, and inserted with 
but rarely upon it; the anthers 2-celled, and the cells opening by a terminal pore; the 
ovary with as many cells as the divisions of the corolla or calyx; the seeds small. Corolla 
generally gamopetalous, sometimes of distinct petals, the insertion and that of the sta- 
mens hypogynous, or when the calyx is adnate epigynous around an annular disk. Style 
single. Leaves simple. 
Susp-orpER 1. VACCINIEZ., 
Shrubs. Ovary wholly or partly inferior. Fruit a berry, crowned with 
the vestiges of the calyx-teeth........... sistelateveiaatalstarostanieiers .....Waccinium, 1 
Sus-orprr 2. BRICINEZA. 
Shrubs or trees. Calyx free. Corolla gamopetalous (in our own species). Stamens 
hypogynous. Anthers introse in the bud. 
