POPULAR FLORA. 169 
Ovary with many ovules in each cell, making small seeds. 
Stamens 10, rarely 8, incladed in the cylindrical or cblong-bell-shaped b-toothed 
corolla. Berry blue or black, sweet, many-seeded, (Vaccinium) BLUEBERRY. 
Sticdisns 10, longer than the open bell-shaped 6-cleft corolla. Berry ripening few 
seeds, mawkish, (Vaccinium stamineum) DEERBERRY. 
Stamens 8, much projecting beyond the deeply depatied reflexed corolla. Berry 
4-celled, many-seeded, red, sour, ( Vaccinium, § Oxycéccus) CRANBERRY. 
Il. HEATH Susraminy. 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 at 'y) (Erica) *HEATH. 
& Corolla falling off after blossoming. 
Fruit a berry or berry-like. 
Trailing small-leaved evergreen. Corolla roundish, (Aretostéphylos) BEARBERRY. 
Fruit a dry pod enclosed in a berry-like calyx, (Gaulthéria) CHECKERBERRY.* 
Fruit a naked dry pod. 
Corolla salver-shaped, with a slender tube. A trailing, scarcely woody ever- 
green, with round-heart-shaped leaves, (Epigea) May-FLOwER. ft 
Corolla ovate or oblong-cylindrical, 5-toothed, (Andrémeda) 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) RHopora. 
Flowers bell-wheel-shaped, 5-lobed, with 10 pouches, (Kalmia) AMERICAN LavREL. 
Flowers bell-shaped or short funnel-shaped without pouches, 5-lobed. 
Stamens 10. Leaves evergreen, (Rhododéndron) RHODODENDRON. 
Stamens 5. Leaves falling in autumn, (Azalea) AZALEA. 
Ill. WINTERGREEN or PYROLA Susraminy. 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 ina raceme. Petals not widely spreading. Style long, (Pyrola) WinTERGREEN. 
Flowers in a general corymb or umbel, or only one or two. Style very short, ( Chimdphila) Prrsisszwa. 
IV. INDIAN-PIPE Susramity. 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, (Monétropa) Inptan-PrPE. 
Flowers several in a scaly raceme; the terminal blossom with 6 petals and 10 stamens, 
all the others with only 4 petals and 8 stamens, ( Hypépitys) PINESAP. 
* Called WinTERGREEN in the country in most places; also BOXBERRY or PARTRIDGE-BERRY; but 
the latter name rightly belongs to Mitchella, and that of Wintergreen to Pyrola, which is so named in 
England. 
t Also called TrarLinc-ARBUTUS and GrouND-LAUREL. Nearly the earliest-flowering plant in the 
Northern States, prized for the rich spicy fragrance of its pretty rose-colored blossoms. 
