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Ericaceae 297 
from tip, septicidal. Seeds many, small, subglobose. (Honor of P. Kalm, a Finnish 
botanist.) W.C. E. (K. glauca; K. glauca microphylla. ) 
K. polifolia Wang. 
PHYLLODOCE HEATHER 
Shrubs, low, somewhat glandular. Leaves small, evergreen, linear-obtuse, crowded. 
Flowers long-pedicelled, nodding, mostly pink or blue or purple or yellowish, in terminal 
umbels; pedicels bracted at base. Calyx 4—6-parted. Corolla campanulate or ovoid, 
5-lobed (ours). Stamens 8—]2 (10 in ours). Anther-cells awnless, opening by 
oblique cracks. Stigma capitate or 4—6-lobed. Capsule 4—6-celled (ours 5), glo- 
bose to short-oblong, septicidal, 46-valved (ours 5) to about the middle. Seeds many, 
minute. (Phyllodoce was a sea nymph mentioned by Virgil.) 
A. Corolla red, campanulate. W. C. FE. (Bryanthus empetriformis.) 
P. empetriformis Don. (Red Heather) 
AA. Corolla yellowish, ovoid. W. C. E. 
P. glanduliflora Cov. (Yellow Heather) 
CASSIOPE MOSS HEATHER 
Shrubs, low, matted. Leaves small, opposite, evergreen, sessile, densely imbricated 
or crowded, entire, apparently veinless, 4-ranked (in ours). Flowers solitary, pedun- 
cled, axillary, nodding, white or pink. Sepals 4 or 5, not bracted at base. Corolla 
campanulate, 4—5-lobed or -parted; lobes spreading or recurved. Stamens 8 or 10; 
anther-cells opening by pores, tipped with a recurved awn. Capsule globose or ovoid, 
4—5-celled, 4—5-valved; valves 2-cleft at apex. Seeds many, minute. (Cassiope 
was the mother of Andromeda. ) 
A. Leaves furrowed on the back. C. 
C. tetragona Don. 
AA. Leaves keeled on the back. W. C. E. 
C. mertensiana Don. 
HARRIMANELLA ALASKA HEATHER 
Shrub, low, matted. Leaves small, linear, evergreen, crowded, sessile, entire, not 
in definite ranks or rows, decurrent. Flowers nodding, solitary on the ends of ordinary 
leafy branches. Calyx bractless; sepals distinct, not becoming fleshy, not exceeding the 
capsule in fruit. Corolla campanulate, vertically plaited at the base, 5-lobed: lobes 
pendent and overlapping. Stamens 10, 5 longer; anther-cells awned, opening by pores. 
Capsule globose. Seeds many, oblong. (Honor of E. H. Harriman, an American 
financier.) C. H. stelleriana Cov. 
ANDROMEDA 
Shrubs, 1.5—-9 dm. high (ours). Leaves coriaceous, evergreen, linear or oblong; 
in ours glabrous, glaucous, margins strongly revolute. Flowers small, white or pinkish, 
in terminal umbels. Calyx deeply 5-parted, persistent. Corolla globose-urceolate; teeth 
recurved. Stamens 10; anther-cells with recurved awns, opening by pores. Capsule sub- 
globose, 5-celled, 5-angled, the top depressed, loculicidal, 5-valved. Seeds many. (An- 
dromeda was a mythological Greek beauty, the daughter of Cassiope.) C. 
A. polifolia L. (Bog Rosemary) 
