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to human beings after feeding on Kalmia berries, and the honey 

 which poisoned Xenophon's Greeks during the famous retreat 

 of the Ten Thousand was probably that of Azalea pontica, which 

 still grows on the shores of the Black Sea and is known to possess 

 this property. 



1. Arbutus. — Leaves broad; corolla globose, deciduous; sta- 

 mens 10 ; fruit fleshy, tubercled, 5-chambered, many-seeded. 



2. Arctostaphylos.— Fruit fleshy, smooth, 5-chambered, 5- 

 seeded ; otherwise like Arbutus. 



3. Andromeda. — Fruit a dry, 5-chambered, 5-valved capsule ; 

 otherwise like Arbutus. 



4. Calluna. — Leaves small ; sepals 4, coloured, longer than 

 the corolla ; corolla bell-shaped, 4-cleft, persistent ; stamens 8 ; 

 capsule 4-chambered, septicidal ; seeds few in each chamber. 



5. Erica. — Leaves small; sepals 4 ; corolla bell-shaped, tubular, 

 or urceolate, 4-cleft, persistent ; stamens 8 ; capsule 4-chambered, 

 loculicidal ; seeds many in each chamber. 



6. Azalea. — Leaves small ; sepals, petals, and stamens 5 each ; 

 corolla bell-shaped, deciduous ; capsule 2 — 3-chambered, septi- 

 cidal. 



7. BryXnthus. — Sepals 5 ; corolla urceolate, 5-fid, deciduous; 

 stamens 10 ; capsule 5-chambered, septicidal. 



8. Daboecia.— Sepals 4 ; corolla urceolate, 4-fid, deciduous ; 

 stamens 8 ; capsule 4-chambered, septicidal. 



9. Pyrola. — Herbs ; leaves chiefly radical, broad ; sepals 5 ; 

 petals 5, free, incurved; stamens 10; capsule 5-chambered, 

 loculicidal. 



10. Moneses. — Petals united; anthers prolonged into tubes; 

 otherwise mainly like Pyrola. 



1. Arbutus (Strawberry-tree). — Trees or shrubs with scattered, 

 broad, usually evergreen leaves; flowers in terminal panicles, 5- 

 merous ; corolla globose, deciduous ; stamens 10 ; fruit fleshy, 

 tubercled, 5-chambered, many-seeded. (Name, the Classical 

 Latin name of the plant.) 



1. A. unedo (Strawberry-tree). — A beautiful evergreen tree with 

 a rough, reddish bark ; large elliptical, tapering, smooth, serrate, 

 deep-green leaves; numerous terminal clusters of drooping creamy- 

 white flowers ; and nearly globular, scarlet, berry-like fruits, rough 

 with minute hard grains. — About the lakes of Killarney, abundant 

 and truly wild ; common in English gardens, and naturalised 

 about Clifton. The flowers are in full perfection when the fruit 

 of the preceding year is ripening ; and then the tree presents 

 its most attractive appearance. The fruit is so much less agreeable 

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