. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 69^ ERICACEAE. Vol. II. Corolla 4-S-toothed, the short teeth spreading or recurved. Stamens 8 or lo, included; anther with 2 recurved dorsal awns. Ovary 4-5-celled; ovules I in each cavity. Drupe globose, with 4 or s separate i-seeded nutlets. [Greek, referring to its shining leaves.] A monotypic genus of the arctic zone and high mountain summits. I. Mairania alpina (
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 69^ ERICACEAE. Vol. II. Corolla 4-S-toothed, the short teeth spreading or recurved. Stamens 8 or lo, included; anther with 2 recurved dorsal awns. Ovary 4-5-celled; ovules I in each cavity. Drupe globose, with 4 or s separate i-seeded nutlets. [Greek, referring to its shining leaves.] A monotypic genus of the arctic zone and high mountain summits. I. Mairania alpina (L.) Desv. Alpine or Black Bearberry. Fig. 3250. r aZ/'ma L. Sp. PI. 395. 1753- a alfina Desv. Journ. Bot. (II) I : 37, 292. 1813. jphylos alfina Spreng. Syst. 2: 287. 1S25. Arctous alfhia Niedenzu, Engl. Bot. Jahrb. II; 141. 1890. Tufted or depressed-prostrate; branches 2'-$' high, the twigs glabrous or very nearly so. Leaves obovate, crenu- late, conspicuously reticulate-veined, ciliate at least when young, i'-i' long, 3"-7" wide; flowers few, appearing from scaly buds before or with the leaves; corolla wdiite, ovoid, constricted at the throat; drupe black (or bright red, according to Macoun), juicy, 3"-s" in diameter. Summits of the higher mountains of New England ; Que- bec to Newfoundland. Alaska and British Columbia. Also in northern Europe and .^sia. 25- CALLUNA Salisb. Trans. Linn. Soc. 6: 317. 1802. A low much branched evergreen shrub, with minute linear opposite crowded and imbricated leaves, and small white or pink flowers, in terminal one-sided dense, spike- ke racemes. Sepals 4, scarious, concave, obtuse, longer than and concealing the corolla. Corolla campanulate when expanded, 4-parted, slightly twisted, persistent, becoming scarious. Stamens 8, distinct; filaments short; anthers oblong, attached to the filaments by their backs, opening by a longi- tudinal slit, each sac with a dorsal refiexed appendage. Disk 8-lobed. Ovary depressed-
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