262 HEATH FAMILY. 



** ** Flowers spicate or racemose. 



= Style strongly declined and upwardly curved; corolla shallow. 



C. Americana, Linn. Kich moist ground especially W. ; stem 3°-6° 

 high, thin, lance-ovate, taper-pointed, serrate leaves, and long loose spike 

 of flowers, the almost wheel-shaped, light-blue corolla 1' broad, and long 

 curved style. (J) @ 



= = Style straight; corolla deep. 



C. rapuncuMdes, Linn. Spreading inveterately by the root, sparsely 

 hairy, the erect leafy stems l°-2° high, with lowest leaves heart-shaped 

 and petioled, upper lance-ovate and sessile, nodding flowers in the axil 

 of bracts forming a leafy raceme, and tubular-bell-shaped corolla 1' long. 

 Cult, and escaped. Eu. % 



C. Trachelium, Linn. Roughish-hairy, 2°-3° high, with more coarsely 

 toothed and broader leaves than the last, and rather larger bell-shaped 

 corolla. Gardens. Eu. % 



C. persicifdlia, Linn. Smooth, with upright stems l°-2£° high, and 

 bearing small lance-linear leaves, root leaves broader, all beset with 

 minute, close teeth ; the flowers nearly sessile and erect, rather few in a 

 sort of raceme, the open bell-shaped corolla l£'-2' long, sometimes double. 

 Cult. Eu. % 



LXIV. ERICACEAE, HEATH FAMILY. 



A very large family, of shrubs, herbs, or even small trees, 

 difficult to define as a whole ; the leaves are simple and mostly 

 alternate (sometimes reduced to white or colored scales) ; the 

 flowers almost all regular, and with as many or twice as many 

 stamens as there are petals or lobes of the corolla; their 

 anthers 2-celled, each cell more commonly opening by a pore 

 or hole at the end ; ovary mostly with as many cells as there 

 are lobes to the corolla ; style only one, and seeds small. The 

 Heath and Heather (the former cult, in some greenhouses 

 in several species, and the latter sparingly wild E.) belong to 

 this family, and are distinguished by small or needle-like ever- 

 green leaves, the corolla becoming dry and persisting, its lobes, 

 and those of the calyx, 4 ; stamens 8. 



I. WHORTLEBERRY SUBFAMILY, known by having 

 the tube of the calyx adherent to the ovary, on which the 

 monopetalous corolla and the stamens are therefore mounted. 

 All are shrubs, with scaly buds. Fruit a berry or berry-like. 



1. GAYLTJ9SACTA. Stamens 10 ; anthers with the cells opening by a chink at the blnnt 

 or tapering top. Ovary 10-celled with one ovule In each cell, forming a berry-like 

 fruit containing 10 apparent seeds, or properly little stones. Flowci-s In lateral ra- 

 cemes ; branchlets and leaves beset with resinous or clammy dots. 



3. VACCINIUM. Stamens 10 or 8 ; anthers tapering np into a tube with a hole at the 

 top. Ovary with several or many ovules in each cell, forming a pulpy many-seeded 

 (rarely rather few-seeded) berry. 



