POPULAR FLORA. 169 



Ovary witli many ovules in each cell, making small seeds. 



Stamens 10, rarely 8, included in the cylindrical or oblong-bell-shaped 5-toothed 



corolla. Berry blue or black, sweet, many-seeded, ( Vaccinium) Blueberky 



Stamens 10, longer than the open bell-shaped 5-cleft corolla. Berry ripening few 



seeds, mawkish, ( Vaccinium stamineum) Deerberby 



Stamens 8, much projecting beyond the deeply 4-parted reflexed corolla. Berry 



4-celled, many-seeded, red, sour, [ Vaccinium, \ Oxycdccus) Cranberry. 



II. HEATH Subfamily. Calyx, corolla (generally monopetalous), and stamens free from the 

 ovary, inserted on the receptacle. Shrubby plants (except Checkerberry), sometimes small trees. 



1. Corolla remaining dry after blossoming. Stems covered with very small and narrow 



leaves. Only house-plants in this country, {Erica) *Heath. 



2. Corolla falling off after blossoming. 



Fruit a berry or beny-like. 



Trailing small-leaved evergreen. Corolla roundish, {Arctosidphylos) Bearberry. 



Fruit a dry pod enclosed in a berry-like calyx, ( Gaullheria) Checkerberry.* 



Fruit a naked dry pod. 



Corolla salver-shaped, with a slender tube. A traihng, scarcely woody ever- 

 green, with round-heart-shaped leaves, (Epigwa) MAY-FLOWER.t 

 Corolla ovate or oblong-cylindrical, 5-toothed, (Andrdmeda) Andromeda. 

 Corolla of 5 separate petals, regular, white. 



Flowers in panicled racemes, appearing in summer, ( Clethra) Sweet-Pepperbush. 

 Flowers in umbels. Leaves rusty-woolly beneath, {Ledum) Labrador-Tea. 



Flowers irregular, rose-purple, two of the petals nearly separate, {Rhoddra) Rhodora. 

 Flowers bell-wheel-shaped, 5-lobed, with 10 pouches, (Kdlmia) Americah Laurel. 

 Flowers bell-shaped or short funnel-shaped without pouches, B-lobed. 



Stamens 10. Leaves evergreen, (Rhododendron) Rhododendron. 



Stamens 5. Leaves falling in autumn, (Azalea) Azalea. 



m. WINTERGREEN or PYROLA Subfamily. Calyx, &c. free from the ovary; the 5 separate 

 petals and 10 stamens on the receptacle. Low and herbaceous, or nearly so, and with evergreen leaves. 

 Flowers in a raceme. Petals not widely spreading. Style long, (Pyrola) Wintebgreen. 



Flowers in a general corymb or umbel, or only one or two. Style very short, ( Chimdphila) Pipsissewa. 



IV. INDIAN-PIPE Subfamily. Low herbs growing in leaf-mould in woods, destitute of green 

 foliage (parasitic on roots), having white or flesh-colored scales in place of leaves. 

 Flower one, nodding at first. Calyx of 2 to 4 scales : petals of 5 spatulate scales : 



stamens 10, (Monotropa) Indian-Pipe. 



Flowers several in a scal;^ raceme ; the terminal blossom with B petals and 10 stamens, 



all the others with only 4 petals and 8 stamens, (EypipHys) Pinesap. 



* Called WiNTBRGREEN in the country in most places ; also Boxberry or Paetridge-beeey ; but 

 the latter name rightly belongs to Mitchetta, and that of Wintergreen to Pyrola, which is so named in 

 England. 



t Also called Trailing-Aebutus and Ground-Laueel. Nearly the earliest-floweiing plant in the 

 Northern States, prized for the rich spicy fragrance of its pretty rose-colored blossoms. 



