236 THE FLORA. 
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Analysis of the Genera. 
§ Shrubs or trees, or shrublets....2 
§ Herbs evergreen, with green herbage and leaves....m 
§ Herbs leafless, without verdure. Bracts scale-like....a 
2 Calyx adherent, crowning the berry in fruit....a 
2 Calyx free from the ovary, or inferior....3 
8 Petals united into a gamopetalous corolla....4 
8 Petals entirely or very nearly separate and distinct....5 
4 Flowers 4-parted. Stamens 8....b 
4 Flowers 5-parted. Stamens 5 or 10.... 
5 Pods 2 or 8-celled, cells only 1-seeded. Southern....k 
5 Pods 3-celled, cells many-seeded....g 
5 Pods 5 or 7-celled, cells many-seeded....h 
6 Corolla urn-shaped (oval or globular), lobes small.... 
6 Corolla not urn-shaped, open or spreading....« 
a Erect shrubs with 5-parted tlowers and 10-seeded berries. 
Hluckleberries, G@aYLussa/cla, 
a Erect shrubs with 5-parted flowers and cw-seeded berries. 
Blueberries, Vaccrn’1uM. 
a Trailing shrublets. Corolla 4-cleft, reflexed. Fr. red. Cranberry. Oxycoc’cus. 
a Trailing shrublets. Corolla 4-cleft, spreading. Fruit white. 
Boxberry. CH10@/ENES. 
b Leaves linear-acerose, whorled or crowded. Cultivated. Heath. Er’tca. 
b Leaves oval-lanceolate. Shrub, 4f. high. Penn.8. 
ce Pod dry, opening bet. the cells. Lvs. lin. N. 
ce Pod dry, opening into the cells....d 
ce Drupe fleshy, 5-seeded. Shrubs trailing. Bearberry, ARcrosTapn’YLos. 
ce Berry fleshy, many-seeded. Little shrublets. Checkerberry, GAULTHE’RIA. 
d Shrublet moss-like, on high Mts. Leaves linear. Moss Andromede. Casst’oPE. 
\ Mountain Heath. Menzie’sta. 
d Shrubs with ample leaves. Pod-valves entire. Andromede. ANDROM’EDA. 
d Tree with ample leaves and slender racemes. Sorrel-tree. OXYDEN’DRUM. 
e Corolla saucer-form, holding the anthers in 10 pits. Laurel. Kau/Mta. 
e Corolla salver-form, very fragrant. Trailing. Muy-flower. Kvien’a. 
e Corolla funnel or bell-form, with spreading lobes....f 
f Stamens 5, included. Plant and leaves very small. Mts. N. H. Leroseiev’rra. 
f Stamens 5 (rarely more), long-exserted. Corolla funnel-form. AZA’LEA. 
f Stamens 10 (rarely fewer), exserted. Corolla bell-form. Bay. Ruopoprn’prRon, 
g Leaves alternate, deciduous, serrate. Flowers racemed. 
g Leaves mostly opposite, evergreen, entire. Flowers umbeled. 
Sand Myrtle. Le1opnyy Lum. 
h Flowers 5-parted. Corolla regular. Labrador Tea. Le’pum. 
h Flowers 5-parted. Corolla irregular. 
h Flowers 7-parted, regular. Stamens 14, 8, 
CLE/THRA, 
Ruopo/Ra, 
Bera/Ria, 
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