. 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. Four I. Cassiope tetragona (L.) D. Don. angled Cassiope. Fig. 3234. Andromeda tetragona L. Sp. PI. 393. 1753. Cassiope tetragona D. Don, Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 17: 158. 1834. Tufted, much-branched, 4'-i2' high, the branches ascending or erect. Leaves thick, ovate or ovate- oblong, closely appressed, channeled on the back, concave or nearly flat on the inner (upper) s
. 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. Four I. Cassiope tetragona (L.) D. Don. angled Cassiope. Fig. 3234. Andromeda tetragona L. Sp. PI. 393. 1753. Cassiope tetragona D. Don, Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 17: 158. 1834. Tufted, much-branched, 4'-i2' high, the branches ascending or erect. Leaves thick, ovate or ovate- oblong, closely appressed, channeled on the back, concave or nearly flat on the inner (upper) surface, acute or the lower obtuse, usually puberulent when young, i"-ii" long; peduncles several or numerous, lateral, ascending or erect, slender, s"-i2" long; flowers 3"-4" broad; corolla 5-lobed; style ^slightly thickened below; capsule nearly globular, i"-ii" in in diameter. Labrador. Greenland and Hudson Bay to Alaska and Oregon. Also in arctic Europe and Asia. Summer. 12. HARRIMANELLA Coville, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. 3: 570. 1901. Low heath-like evergreen shrubs, similar to Cassiope, the leaves imbricated in many ranks, the nodding flowers solitary at the ends of the branches. Sepals S, imbricated in the bud, not bracted, persistent; corolla campanulate, vertically plaited at the base, deeply 5-cleft, its lobes overlapping. Stamens 10, included; anthers in 2 planes, their sacs awned just below the apex, opening by terminal pores. Ovary 5-celled; style short, stout; ovules numer- ous. Capsule globose, many-seeded, the numerous seeds oblong. [In honor of Edward H. Harriman, American financier and patron of science.] Two species, of arctic and subarctic regions. Type species: Harnmaitella Slellcrian Coville. (Pall.) I. Harrimanella hypnoides (L.) Coville Andromeda hypnoides L. Sp. PI. 393. 1753. Cassiope hypnoides D. Don, Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 17: 157. 1834. Harrimanella hypnoides Coville, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. 3: 575. 1901. Densely
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