258 ERICACEyE. (iIEATH FAMILY.) 



Suborder III. PYROLEiE. Calyx free from the ovary. Corolla 

 5-petalous. — Low nearly herbaceous plants. Leaves evergreen. 



* Capsule 5-celled. 

 15. FYROLA. Flowers racemose, on scape-like stems. Style filiform, elongated. 

 1G. CHIMAPHILA. Flowers umbellate. Style very short, top-shaped- 



* # Capsule 3 -celled. 



17. SIIORTIA. Flower solitary, terminating the scapo-likc scaly stem. 



Suborder IV. MONOTROPE^E. Calyx of 4-5 scale-like or 

 bract-like sepals. Corolla o-lobed or 5-petalous. Seeds very minute. 

 ■ — Flesln- scaly herbs, parasitic on roots, and destitute of green foliage. 



18. BCHWEINITZIA. Corolla monopetalous, bell-shaped, 5-lobed. Anthers 2-celled. 



19. MONOTltOl'A. Corolla 4- 5-petalous. Anthers kidney-shaped, opening across the top. 



Suborder I. VACCIJ\IEiE. The Whortleberry Family. 



1. GAYLUSSACIA, Kunth. Huckleberry. 



Corolla tubular, ovoid, or bell-shaped, 5-cleft. Stamens 10 : anthers armless. 

 Fruit a berry-liko drupe containing 10 seed-like nutlets. — Low branching mostly 

 resinous-dotted shrubs, with white or reddish nodding flowers, in lateral bractcd 

 racemes. 



1. G. frondosa, Torr. & Gray. Leaves entire, oblong or obovate, obtuse, 

 rugose, glaucous, and, like the spreading branches, slightly pubescent ; corolla 

 Binall (2"), short-bell-shaped, reddish; berry depressed-globose, blue, glaucous ; 

 bracts small, oblong. (Vaccinium frondosum, Ell.) — Low ground, Florida to 

 Mississippi, and northward. April. — Shrub l°-2° high. 



2. G. dumosa, Torr. & Gray. Branches and racemes pubescent ; leaves 

 thick, oblong-obovate, serrulate, mucronatc, soon smooth and shining; corolla 

 (4" long) bell-shaped, angled, white; bracts ovate, leafy ; berry globose, smooth, 

 black. (Vaccinium duroosnm, Ell.) — Var. hibtella. Stem taller (l°-2° 

 high) ; branches, leaves, and berries hirsute or hairy. — Low sandy pine barrens 

 and swamps, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. April and May. — Shrub 

 6'- 12' high. Berry 4" - G" in diameter. 



3. G. resinosa, Torr. & Gray. Stem much branched ; leaves oblong or 

 obovate. entire, coated, like the branehlcts, &c, with resinous viscid globules; ra- 

 cemes few-flowered ; bracts small, deciduous ; corolla small, ovoid or cylindrical, 

 reddish; berry black, smooth. (Vaccinium resinosum, Ell.) — Sandy woods in 

 the upper districts of Georgia, and northward. April and May. -- Shrub 2° -3° 

 high. 



4. G. Ul'Sina, Gray. Leaves large (2'-.V long), thin, lanceolate-oblong, 

 acute, entire; the veins, like the branches, rosty-tomentose ; racemes remotely 

 few-flowered : bracts minute ; corolla bell-shaped ; berry black. ( Vaccinium ur- 

 Hiium, .1/. A. Curtis.) — Mountains of North Carolina. — Shrub 2°-3° high. 



