212 ERICACi2;E. 



Dry hills and open ■wood.?, common. May. Stem 1 to 2f«.Hhigh, with numerous 

 yellowish-given branches. Leaves pale and dull, fringed with bristly 01 irlanuular 

 Lairs, which lip the purraturcs. Fkaotrt greenish white tinged, with red, on short 

 petioles. Berries dark blue, glaucous, very sweet, ripening a liUIo Inter than those 

 »f No. 5. 



9. V. LIGUSTRINUM, Michx. Privet Whortleberry. 



Branches angular, erect, slender; leaves sub-sessile, eract, thick, lanceolate, 

 macronate, serrulate, pubescent; faieicles sessile, with short glomerate pedieals; 

 mrolla oyoid-oblong. 



Dry woods and mountains. May — June. A fmill phrnb, -with straight and 

 ■lander branches. Flowers purplhsh-red. Berries black. Yarj variable in the 

 ahau« and size of the ltaTe*. 



2. OXYCOCCUS, Pen. 



Gr. osys, acid, and coccus- a berry. 



Calyx superior, 4-cleffc. Corolla 4-parted, with elonga- 

 ted, rcvolute divisions. Stamens 8, convergent. AwTHlKi 

 tubular 2-par ted, opening by oblique pores. Ovary 4- 

 eelled, many-seeded. — Slender trailing shrubs, with alternaU 

 evergreen leaves, with revolate margins, and red acid forties. 



1. 0. MAOROCARPUS, Fefs; Common Cranberry. 



Stems elongated, creeping, the flowering branches aEcending; }eayes oblong, oV 

 tiree, glaucous underneath ; peduncles lateral, from the base of the young fhepte. 



Peat logs, common. June. Stem creeping, and throwing up short eract branch - 

 •at Leaves about l / 2 inch long; and nearly l < «]<!••. rounded at each end, en vrry 

 short petioles, obscurely serrulate. Flowers flesh-polored on slci es V£ to • 



1 inch long, solitary in the- axils of the upper leaves, the 4 segments reflcxed. 

 Berry large, scarlet or purplish, ripe in October. Highly prized for its £na acid 

 Iruit. 



Sub-order 2. ERICINEiE. The Proper Heath Family, 



Ovary free from the calyx. Seed-coat close and thin, 

 rarely loose and cellular. — Shrubs or small trees. 



Tribe 2. ANDHO'MEDE^. Fruit a capsule- opening 



hculicidally. 



• Calyx leccming lerry-hle in fruit cnil enclcting Vie capsuli. 



3. GAULTHEMA, Kalim 



Dedicated by Kalm to " Dr. Gaulthier," of Queboe. 



Calyx cylindrical-ovoid, 5-toothed. Corolla ovoid-tubu- - 

 lar, limb with 5 small revolute lobes. Stamens 10, in- 

 cluded. Capsule depressed, 5-lobed, 5-cellcd, 5-valved, 

 many-seeded, inclosed when ripe by the calyx which thickens, . 

 booming fleshy, io as to appear like a globular red berry t — i 





