. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. ERICACEAE (HEATH FAMILY), 635 either flat or revolute, glabrous, generally whitened beneath with a varnishr-like coat, later often green ; tud-soales scarcely glaucous; pedicels in terminal umbels, filiform, straightish, 2-4 times exceeding the nodding flower and erect fruit; corolla pink or white ; calyx with pale or usually reddish slightly ascending lobes; capsule brown or reddish, obovoid or subglobose, as high as broad.—Arctic regions, exte
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. ERICACEAE (HEATH FAMILY), 635 either flat or revolute, glabrous, generally whitened beneath with a varnishr-like coat, later often green ; tud-soales scarcely glaucous; pedicels in terminal umbels, filiform, straightish, 2-4 times exceeding the nodding flower and erect fruit; corolla pink or white ; calyx with pale or usually reddish slightly ascending lobes; capsule brown or reddish, obovoid or subglobose, as high as broad.—Arctic regions, extending very locally s. to the Adirondack Mts., N. Y.(?), L. Huron, etc. May-July. (Eurasia.) Eic. 844. 2. A. glaucophylla Link. (Bog Rosejiart.) Similar in habit; leaves white beneath with close fiae pubescence ; branch- lets and bud-scales glaucous; flowers on thickish curved pedicels rarely twice their length; calyx-lobes whitish, usually spread- ing; capsule depressed, turban-shaped, glau- cous. {A. Polifolia mostly of Am. auth., not L.) — Bogs and wet shores, Lab. to s. to K J., Pa., and Minn. May-July; rarely Sept.,. 844. A. Polifolia. End of fruiting branch x %. Man,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gray, Asa, 1810-1888; Robinson, Benjamin Lincoln, 1864-1935; Fernald, Merritt Lyndon, 1873-1950. New York, American Book Co
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