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teeth (i to 1 J inches long) : pedicels solitary in the axils, very short : corolla 

 depressed-campanulate, little exceeding the calyx : apex of anthers obscurely 

 4-pointed: fruit scarlet, with pine-apple flavor. — In the mountains from 

 Colorado and Utah to British America and westward. 



4. BEYANTHUS, Steller, Gmelin. 



Heath-like alpine evergreens; with much crowded linear-obtuse leaves 

 (| inch or less long). In ours the flowers are racemose-clustered at the sum- 

 mit of the branches, the pedicels glandular and subtended by foliaceous and 

 rigid bracts, and the almost smooth leaves have strongly revolute thickened 

 margins. 



1. B. empetriformis, Gray. A span or more high: pedicels some- 

 what umbellate : corolla rose-color, 2 or 3 lines long, campanulate, barely 

 5-lobed ; the lobes much shorter than the tube : stamens included : style 

 either included or exserted. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 377. Mountains of W 

 Wyoming, Montana, and northwestward. 



5. K AL MI A, L. American Laurel. 



Leaves evergreen and entire : the showy flowers umbellate-clustered, rose- 

 colored, purple or white : limb of the corolla in bud strongly 10-keeled from 

 the pouches upward, the salient keels running to the apex of the lobes and 

 to the sinuses. 



1. K. glauea, Ait. Shrub 1 or 2 feet high, glabrous, mostly glaucous, 

 branchlets 2-edged : leaves all opposite or rarely in threes, almost sessile, ob- 

 long or linear-oblong, or appearing narrower by the usual strong revolution 

 of the edges, glaucous-white beneath : flowers in spring in a simple terminal 

 umbel or corymb, lilac-purple, £ to if inch in diameter. — Bogs, Colorado 

 and northward, thence eastward across the continent. The forms extending 

 southward into the Colorado mountains are depauperate alpine forms a span 

 high and with leaves barely 4 inch long (var. microphylla, Hook.). 



6. LEDUM, L. Labrador Tea. 



Low shrubs, with alternate persistent leaves, which are entire and more or 

 less resinous-dotted, slightly fragrant when bruised : flowers white, devel- 

 oped in early summer from terminal or sometimes lateral buds ; pedicels 

 recurved in fruit. 



1. L. glandulOSUm, Nutt. Shrub 2 to 6 feet high, stout : leaves oblong 

 or oval, or approaching lanceolate (1 or 2 inches long), glabrous both sides, 

 pale or whitish and minutely resinous-atomiferous beneath : inflorescence often 

 compound and crowded : capsules oval, retuse. — From California northward 

 and eastward into British America, occurring in the northwestern border of 

 our range. 



7. MONESES, Salisb. 



Cells of the anther oblong, abruptly constricted under the orifice into 3 

 conspicuous short-tubular neck. 



