250 ERICACE^. (heath FAMILY.) 



tioned is the most remarkable, and the only one which has any claims to be 

 regarded as a species, 



Var, gln.bruni. Wholly or nearly glabrous throughout ; leayes entire. 



Var. anioennin. Leaves bristly-ciliate, shining above, green both sides, 

 beneath somewhat pubescent on the veins. (V. amcenum, Ait., &c.) 



Var. pdliidum. Leaves mostly glabrous, pale or whitish-glaucous, espe- 

 cially underneath, seiTulate with bristly teeth. (V. pallidum, Ait.) 



Var. atrococcum. Leaves entire, downy or woolly underneath even 

 when old, as also the branchletsj benies smaller, black, without bloom. (V. 

 fuscitum. Ait. ? ^ Ed. 1.) 



3. CHIOCrENES, Salisb. Ceeeping Snowebket. 



Calyx-tube adherent to the lower part of the ovary ; the limb 4-parted. 

 Corolla bell-shaped, deeply 4-cleft. Stamens 8, included, inserted on an 8- 

 toothed epigynous disk : filaments very short and broad : anther-cells ovate- 

 oblong, quite separate, not awned on the back, but each minutely 2-pointed at 

 the apex, and opening by a large chink down to the middle. BeiTy white, glob- 

 ular, crowned with the 4-toothed calyx, rather diy, 4-celled, many-seeded. — A 

 trailing and creeping evergreen, with very slender and scarcely woody stems, 

 and small Thyme-like ovate and pointed leaves on short petioles, with rovolute 

 margins, smooth above, the lower surface and the branches beset with rigid 

 rusty bristles. Flowers very small, solitary in the axils, on short nodding pe- 

 duncles, with 2 large bractlets under the calyx. (Name from x">»'i snow, and 

 ■yeVos, offspring, in allusion to the snow-white berries.) 



1. C. hispidula, Ton-. & Gr. (Vaccinium hispidulum, L. Gaultheria 

 serpyllifolia, Pursh. G. hispidula, MuM.) Peat-bogs and mossy mountain 

 woods, in the shade of evei-greens ; common northward, extending southward in 

 the AUoghanies. May. — Plant with the aromatic flavor of the Boxberry, Win- 

 tcrgreen, or Birch. Leaves J' long. Bcn-ies \' broad, bright white. 



Suborder II. EBIciNEjE. The proper Hfatii Family. 



4. ARCTOSTAPHYEOS, Adans. Beabbekry. 



Corolla ovate and nm-shaped, with a short revolute 5-toothed limb. Stamens 

 10, included : anthers with 2 reflexed awns on the back near the apex, opening 

 by tci-minal pores. Drupe berry-like, with 5 seed-like nutlets. — Shrubs with 

 alternate leaves, and scaly-bracted nearly white flowers in terminal racemes or 

 clusters. Fruit au.stere. (Name composed of apxTOS, a bear, and (rTa(jivKri, 

 a grape or berry, the Greek of the popular name.) 



1. A. Uva-ursi, Spreng. (Bearbeert.) Trailing; leaves thick and 

 evergreen, obovate or spatulate, entire, smooth; fruit red. (Arbutus Uva-ursi, L.) 

 — Eocks and bare hills ; New Jersey to Wisconsin, and northward. May, (Eu.) 



2. A. alpina, Spreng, (Alpine Beakbeery,) Dwaif, tufted .and de- 

 pressed ; leaves deciduous, serrate, vyrinhled with strong netted veins, obovato ; 

 fruit black. — Alpine region of the White Mountains, New Hampshire, Mount 



Katahdin, Maine, and high northward. (Eu.) 



