Okdbe 73.— HEATHWOETS. 



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• ■ Oeder LXXIII. ERICACE^. Heathworts. 



Merbs, or more generally shrubs, with simple, often evergreen lemes ; 

 flowers regular or nearly so, 4 or 5-parted; petals rarely almost distinct; 

 stamens as many or twice as many as the lobes of the corella, and the 

 anthers oddly appendaged and generally opening by two terminal pores ; the 

 style 1, and the ovary 4r-10-celled, with albiiminous seeds. 



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Fig. 532. Azalea procumbens. 3. A flower enlarged. 4. A stamen, mnch enlarged, showing 

 the lengthwise opening of each of the cells. 5. Cross-section of a 5-ceIled capsule of Ehododen- 

 dron, showing the inflexed margins of the valves. 6. Pyrola secunda. T. A flower enlarged. 

 8. A stamen enlarged, showing the terminal tubes and pore-s. 9. Cross-section of a 5-celled, 

 many-seeded capsule. Ftff. 54^. CheGkerheTry (GauUUeria). 1. A flower enlarged. 2. A berry. 

 3. Vertical section of the ovary, showing the free, fleshy calyx. 4. Anther of the Taccinium 

 Vitis-Idese. 5. Stamen uf Be&rheTTy (^Aj'ctostaphylos). 6. Awned stamen of a Blueberry (Kuc- 

 cinitmi). 



