. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries. Illustrated by a flora of northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Botany; Plants; Plants. LXXVI1L ERICACEAE. 367 and roadsides, Can., N. Eng.! to Ga. and 111.! The strict, upright stem, is furnished with distant, short, alternate, heart-reniform, veiny, stem-clasping leaves, containg 1—4 crowded flowers in the concavity of their upper surface. Flowers axillary and terminal, the upper clusters larger. Corolla blue or pur- ple, with spreading segmen
. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries. Illustrated by a flora of northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Botany; Plants; Plants. LXXVI1L ERICACEAE. 367 and roadsides, Can., N. Eng.! to Ga. and 111.! The strict, upright stem, is furnished with distant, short, alternate, heart-reniform, veiny, stem-clasping leaves, containg 1—4 crowded flowers in the concavity of their upper surface. Flowers axillary and terminal, the upper clusters larger. Corolla blue or pur- ple, with spreading segments, calyx segments acute, lanceolate. June, July. 2. S. speculum. Venus' Looking-glass.—St. diffuse, very branching; Ivs. ob- long-crenate; fis. solitary; scales at the base of the corolla sometimes wanting. —A pretty border flower named from the form of the blue corolla, which resem- bles a little, round, concave mirror (speculum). Aug. Order LXXVIII. ERICACEAE.—Heathworts. Plants shrubby or suffruticose, sometimes herbaceous. Lvs. simple, alternate or opposite, mostly evergreen, entire or toothed, -without stipules. Inflorescence various. Cat. interior or superior, 5- (seldom 4—G-) leaved or cleft, rarely entire. Cor. regular or somewhat irregular, 4—5- (rarely 6-) cleft, the petals rarely almost distinct. Sta. Generally distinct and inserted with the corolla. [appendaged. Anth. as many or twice as many as the lobes of the corolla, 2-eelled, generally opening by pores, often Embryo straight, lying in the axis of, or in the end of fleshy albumen. Genera 66, species 1086, diffused throughout all countries, but comparatively rare in the torrid zone. The true Ericaceae (Heaths) are chiefly natives of the Cape of Good Hope, there being none in Asia, New Holland, and but one or two in America. The Tribe Vaccineae are chiefly natives of N. America. Properties—-The Ericaceae are, in general, astringent and diuretic. Some of them yield a stimulating and aromatic resinous
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