. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. on.—Pyrolacese.—Monotropace^.- Fig. CCCXIV.—Monotropa Hj-popithys. 2. a flower; 3. a pistil; 4. the same divided perpendicularly;5. a seed.—Nees. 6. seed of Pterospora andronaedea; 7. a section of it. Ericales.] ERICACE/E. 453 Order CLXIX. ERICACEAE.—Heathworts. Ericae, Juss. Gen. 159 (17B9).—Erices, R. Brown Prodr. 557. (1810).—Rhododendra, Juss. Gen. 158,(1789).—Ericinea?, Desv. Jonrn. Bot. 28. (1813); Don in Edinb. Phil. Journal, p. 150. (1834);Klotzsch in Linncea, vol. 9. 6
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. on.—Pyrolacese.—Monotropace^.- Fig. CCCXIV.—Monotropa Hj-popithys. 2. a flower; 3. a pistil; 4. the same divided perpendicularly;5. a seed.—Nees. 6. seed of Pterospora andronaedea; 7. a section of it. Ericales.] ERICACE/E. 453 Order CLXIX. ERICACEAE.—Heathworts. Ericae, Juss. Gen. 159 (17B9).—Erices, R. Brown Prodr. 557. (1810).—Rhododendra, Juss. Gen. 158,(1789).—Ericinea?, Desv. Jonrn. Bot. 28. (1813); Don in Edinb. Phil. Journal, p. 150. (1834);Klotzsch in Linncea, vol. 9. 67. Lilt. (183r)).—Rhodoracese and Ericaceae, DC, Fl. Fr. 3. 671. and675. (1815).—Ericaceae, Ed. Pr. clxvi. (1836); Endl. Gen. clxi.; DC. Prodr. 7. 580 ; Mcisner, p. 244. Diagnosis.—Erical Exogens, with monopetcdous ftoioers, free stamens all perfecty loose-sTdmied or tight-skinned seeds, and 2-celled anthers opening by pores. Shrubs or under-shrubs. Leaves evergreen, rigid, entire, whorled, or opposite, with-out stipules. Inflorescence variable, the pedicels generally bracteate. Calyx 4- or. 3 Fig. CCCXV. 5-cleft, nearly equal, inferior, persistent. Corolla hypogynous, monopetalous, 4-or 5-cleft, occasionally separable into 4 or 5 pieces, regular or irregular, often withering, withan imbricated aestivation. Stamens definite,equal in number to the segments of the coroUa,or twice as many, hypogjuous, or scarcely in-serted into the base of the corolla ; anthers 2-celled, the cells hard and dry, separate either atthe apex or base, where they are furnished vAi\\some kind of appendage, and dehiscing by a surroimded at the base by a disk, or secret-ing scales ; many-celled, many-seeded ; style1, straight ; stigma 1, undivided or toothed, or3-cleft, with an indication of an indusium. Fruitcapsular, many-celled, with central placentae ;dehiscence various. Seeds indefinite, minute ;testa firmly adliering to the kernel ; embryocylindincal, in the axis of f
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