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Grenter, Fl. Chaine Jurass. I, 150 (1864) ; Alp. de Candolle, Prodr. 

 XVI, pt. 1, 25 (1869) ; Bentham & Hooker, Gen. PI. Ill, 414 (1880), 

 Handb. Brit. PI. 5 ed. 397 (1887) ; Pax in Engler & Prantl, Nat. 

 Pflanzenfam. Ill, Abt. 5, 127 (1890) ; Baillon, Hist. PI. XI, 193 (l89l); 

 Britton& Brown, Illus. Fl. N.U.S. & Canada II, 383 (1897); Thome, 

 Fl. Dentsch. Ill, 241 t. 395 (1905). 



Syn. Erica baccifera Clusius, Hist. Pann. t. in 29 (1583) ; Bauhintjs, 

 Pinax 486 (1623). 



Fruticuli prostrati dioici. Folia sempervirentia conferta basi arti- 

 culata. Bracteae 2-4 (5). Sepala 3 imbricata. Petala 3 sepalis majora. 

 vStamina 3; antherae dorsifixae introrsae. Ovarium superum 6-9 loculare. 

 Stylus brevis vel subnullus. Stig'mata 6-9 radiata. Fructus succosus 

 edulis vel astringens, nigger vel ruber vel albus vel purpureus. Pyrenae 

 6-9 annulari-collocatae. 



Species 5 in Asia, Europa, America sept. & austr. incola. In Korea 

 tantum unica est indigena. 



Empetrum nigrum Linnaeus, Sp. PI. ed. 1, 1022 (1753;, Fl. Suec. 



ed. 2, 354 (1755). 



var. asiaticum Nakai ex H. Ito in Tokyo Bot. Mag-. XLVII, 895 



(1933), nom.; Nakai. Catal. Sem. & Spor. Hort. Bot. Univ. Tokyo (1936) 



23, nom., Toa Shokubutu 150. 167, 170, 173, 192 (1936), nom. 



Syn. Empetrum nigrum (non Linnveus) Chamisso & Schlechtendal 

 in Linnaea I, 538 (1826), pro parte ; Hooker & Arnott, Bot. 

 Beechey Voy, pt. 3, 116 (1832) ; Trautvetter in Midden- 

 dorf, Reise I, pt. 2, 8, 146, 154 (1847) ; Ledebour, Fl. Ross. 

 Ill pt. 2, 555 (1849), pro parte; A. Gray, Bot. Jap. 39S 

 (1859) ; Maximowicz, Amur. 238 (1859) ; Miotjel in Ann. 

 Mus. Bot. Lug-d. Bat. II, 167 (1866), Prol. 99 (1866) ; Fr. 

 Schmidt in Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb. 7 ser. XII, no. 

 2, 60 n. 321, 117 no. 376 (1868) ; Franchet & Savatier, 

 Enum. PI. Jap. I, 429 (1875) ; Matsumura, Nippon Sboku- 

 butsumeii 73 (1884) ; Miyabe, Fl. Kurile 260 (1891) ; Herder 

 in Acta Hort. Petrop. XI, pt. 2, 350 (1892), pro parte; Matsu- 

 mura, Shoktibutsu Meii 113 (1895) ; Komarov in Acta Hort. 

 Petrop. XXII, 791 (1903) ; Miyoshi & Makino, Pocket Atlas 



