. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 6gi ERICACEAE. Vol. Corolla 4-5-toothed, the short teeth spreading or recurved. Stamens 8 or 10, included; anther with 2 recurved dorsal awns. Ovary 4-s-celIed;. ovules i in each cavity. Drupe globose, with 4 or 5 separate l-seeded nutlets. [Greek, referring to its shining leaves.] A monotypic genus of the arctic zone and high mountain summits. I. Mairania
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 6gi ERICACEAE. Vol. Corolla 4-5-toothed, the short teeth spreading or recurved. Stamens 8 or 10, included; anther with 2 recurved dorsal awns. Ovary 4-s-celIed;. ovules i in each cavity. Drupe globose, with 4 or 5 separate l-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. Arbutus alpina L. Sp. PI. 395. 1753. Mairania alpina Desv. Journ. Bot. (II) I : 37, 292. 1813. Arctostaphylos alpina Spreng. Syst. 2: 287. 1825. Arctoiis alpina Niedenzu, Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 11 : 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, 4'-i' long, 3"-y" wide; flowers few, appearing from scaly buds before or with the leaves; corolla white, 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 Asia. Summer. 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- like 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 reflexed appendage. Di
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