HEATH FAMILY, Ericaceae. 
under side. The flowers are a good deal less than half an 
inch across, with five, very small sepals; five, spreading, 
white petals; a green ovary, and from five to seven, long, 
conspicuous stamens, giving a feathery appearance to the 
pretty flower-clusters, which before blooming are en- 
closed in large, scaly buds. Both foliage and flowers are 
aromatic. This is found across the continent, as far south 
as Pennsylvania, and in Greenland. L. glanduldsum is 
similar, but not woolly. These plants grow in swamps and 
damp places and are considered poisonous. 
There are only a few kinds of Phyllodoce, of arctic and 
alpine regions; low shrubs, with small, leathery, evergreen 
leaves; flowers nodding, with bracts, in terminal clusters; 
calyx usually with five divisions; corolla more or less bell- 
shaped, usually five-lobed; stamens usually ten; stigma 
with a round top, or four to six lobes; capsule roundish: 
often called Heather, but we have no native Heather. 
A charming little shrub, from six to ten 
Red Heath M ; 
tiaras inches tall, with gay flowers and dark 
Phyllédoce Bréweri 
(Bryanthus) yellowish-green leaves, standing out 
Piak stiffly from the stem, like the bristles of a 
Summer bottle-brush. The flowers are sweet- 
Northwest 
scented, nearly half an inch across, with 
reddish calyxes and pedicels and bright pink, saucer- 
shaped corollas, with from seven to ten, long, purple 
stamens, a purple pistil and crimson buds. This makes 
heathery patches on high mountain slopes, up to twelve 
thousand feet in the Sierra Nevadas. 
Much like the last, but the nodding 
Red Heather 
Phyllédoce em- 
pelriformts 
flowers are smaller and not quite so 
pretty, with bell-shaped corollas and the 
stamens not protruding. It forms beauti- 
( Bryanthus) ‘ : ‘ 
Pink ful patches of bright purplish-pink color 
Summer on mountainsides, up to eleven thousand 
Northwest 
Yellow Heather 
feet, farther north than the last. 
This makes heather-like patches on 
rocks and has many rough, woody stems, 
ek crowded with yellowish-green leaves, 
(Bryanthus) shorter and broader than those of Red 
Yellowish Heather. The drooping flowers are about 
any oad three-eighths of an inch long, with a hairy, 
greenish-yellow calyx and yellowishcorolla, 
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