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EM PET RACEME 



a circle ; linear-lanceolate, i -veined leaves, resembling those of a 

 Toad-flax ; and clusters of whitish flowers ; bracts 3.— Dry chalky 

 and limestone hills in the south of England ; rare.— Fl. May- 

 July. Perennial. 



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th£sium humiflsum (Bastard Toad-flax). 



Series II. ACHLAMYTJE^E 



§ Flowers not in calkins 



Ord. LXXI. Empetrace^e. — Crowberry Family 



A very small Order of small heath-like evergreen shrubs, of 

 obscure affinities, inhabiting North Temperate, Arctic, and Sub- 

 Antarctic regions. They have scattered exstipulate leaves ; minute, 

 axillary, polysymmetric, polygamous flowers, with 4 — 6 imbricate 

 scales, either bracts or perianth-leaves ; stamens 3 —4, alternate with 

 the inner scales ; ovary 2 — 9-chambered, on a fleshy disk ; style 1 ; 

 stigma radiate ; fruit fleshy, with bony, i-seeded chambers. The 

 slightly acid berries of the Crowberry (Emfetrum nigrum), though 



