. Class-book of botany [microform] : being outlines of the structures, physiology, and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Plants; Plants; Botanique; Botanique; Plantes; Botanique. ^ Ordkr 73.—ERICACEAE. 493 23. CYRILXA, L. (In honor of Do^ninico Ct/rilli, physician and botanical author, Naples.) Calyx 6-partcd, minute, petals 5, distinct, pointed, spreading; stamens 5, hypo^ynous anthers opening length- wise ; style short, with 2 stigmas; capsule 2-celled, 2-8eeded, indehis- cent; seeds suspended.—A large shrub with the branches irregularly
. Class-book of botany [microform] : being outlines of the structures, physiology, and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Plants; Plants; Botanique; Botanique; Plantes; Botanique. ^ Ordkr 73.—ERICACEAE. 493 23. CYRILXA, L. (In honor of Do^ninico Ct/rilli, physician and botanical author, Naples.) Calyx 6-partcd, minute, petals 5, distinct, pointed, spreading; stamens 5, hypo^ynous anthers opening length- wise ; style short, with 2 stigmas; capsule 2-celled, 2-8eeded, indehis- cent; seeds suspended.—A large shrub with the branches irregularly whorled, with entire, elliptic-oblong, perennial Ivs, and the white fls. in •lender clustered racemes. C. racemiflora Walt.—Margins of swamps and streams, in pine barrens, N. Car. to Fla. Siirub 12 to 18F high, with spreading brandies and a liglit gray bark. Lvs. varjMng from oval ta narrow-oblong, mostly acute, very smooth, tapering to a short petiole. Fls. very small, in racemes 4 to 6' long. The racemes and new branches simultaneously spring from the apex of the preceding years' growth. Jn. 24. MYLOCA'RIUN, Willd. Buckwheat Tree. (Gr. fxvXr}, a mill, Kdpvov, a kernel, a fanciful name.) Calyx 5-toothed, minute ; petals 5, obovate, obtuse ; stamens 10, very short; pistil with winged angles; cap- sule corky, 2 or 3-winged, 3-celled, with 3 subulate seeds.—An ever- green shrub, with branches irregularly whorled, elliptical lvs., and ter- minal rac. of white, fragrant fls. (Cliftonia, Banks.) M. ligUBtrinum "Willd.—Borders of swamps, Ga. and Fla. A perfectly smooth, elegant shrub, 4 to 8f higii. Lvs. thiclc, rather acute, entire, Hat, veinless, ses- sile, 1' to 18" long. Fruit drupe-like, pendulous, 2, rarely 3 of the angles pro- duced into corky wings, suggesting the idea of buckwheat. Apr., May. Suborder IV. PYROLEJE. The Winteroreen Tribe. 25. PYR'OLA, Salisb. Winteroreen. (Lat. diminutive of Pyrus, as the leaves (of P. elliptica) resemble those of the p
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