418 ERICACEAE andromeda 



CASSIOPE 



length of the calyx-lobes : pedicels solitary in the axils, usually 4-bracteo- 

 late : fruit scarlet. Cascade Mountains, Oregon to Brit. Columbia. 



* * Corolla ovate or urceolate, 5-toothed : filaments hairy: anthers 

 4-awned at the summit. 



G. Shallon Pursh Fl. i, 284, t. 12. (salal) Shrubby, 1-6 feet h ; gh, 

 with rather stout spreading stems : branches, pedicels and even the corollas 

 glandular-hairy or pubescent: leaves ovate to cordate, often acuminate, 

 strongly serrulate, 1-4 inches long : flowers in open bracteate many-flowered 

 secund racemes, from axillary and terminal chartaceous-scaly buds: ped- 

 icels 2-bracteolate below the middle: corolla urn-shaped, 3-5 lines long, 

 5-toothed, viscid: fruit black, 3-6 lines in diameter, edible. Very common 

 in forests, Alaska to California. 



4 ANDROMEDA L. Sp. 393. 



Low shrubs with coriaceous, linear or oblong evergreen leaves, 

 and small white to flesh-colored flowers in terminal umbels. 

 Calyx deeply 5-parted, persistent but not becoming fleshy in fruit. 

 Corolla globose-urceolate, 5-toothed, the teeth recurved. Stamens 

 10, included ; filaments hairy; anthers attached to the filaments 

 at about the middle, ovate, obtuse, the cells opening by large ter- 

 minal pores, each with a recurved awn. Ovary 5-celled. Cap- 

 sule subglobose, 5-angled, the top intruded, loculicidally 5-valved, 

 many-seeded. Placenta borne near the top of the columella, the 

 seeds spreading in all directions. 



A. polifolia L. 1. c. Stem 6-18 inches high, simple or branched: 

 leaves firm-coriaceous, glabrous and glaucous, linear to lanceolate-oblong, 

 with strongly revolute margins, white beneath : flowers in a small termin- 

 al umbel: pedicels from the axils of ovate persistent scaly bracts, naked : 

 calyx small, deeply 5-parted, early open; corolla globose-urceolate, 3-4 

 lines long: anthers short, each cell surmounted by a slender ascending 

 awn: seeds smooth and shining. Wet bogs, northern Washington to 

 Alaska and across the Continent. 



5 CASSIOPE D. Don Edinb. New Phil. Journ. xvii, 157. 



Fruticulose evergreens with small or minute imbricated or 

 crowded, entire and veinless, often opposite or whorled leaves 

 and solitary flowers nodding on the summits of erect naked pedi- 

 cels.. Calyx ebracteolate, of 4 or 5 imbricated sepals that are 

 thickened at base. Corolla open-campanulate, 4- or 5-lobed or 

 parted. Anthers short, attached nearly by their summits, the 

 cells each opening by a large terminal pore, and tipped by a 

 slender recurved awn. Style thickened at base, or conical Pla- 

 centae many-ovuled, pendulous from the summit of the short 

 columella. Capsule globose or ovoid, dry, loculicidally 4- or 5- 

 valved, the valves 2-cleft. Seeds minute, with a thin close coat. 



C. Stelleriana DC. Prodr. vii, 610. Diffusely spreading: leaves ob- 

 long-linear, obtuse, widely spreading, flattish, obscurely serrulate, 2-3 lines 

 long: peduncle terminal, very short: corolla 4- or 5-parted : style conical. 

 Washington to Alaska. 



C. lycopodioides Don 1. c. Stems filiform, very low and creeping: 

 leaves barely a line long, roundish on the bacfc , not ciliate, closely imbri- 



