An illustrated flora of the 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 ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 Genus CROWBERRY FAMILY. 479 I. EMPETRUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 1022. 1753. Depressed or spreading herbaceous shrubs, freely branching, dioecious or monoecious, the branches usually densely leafy, the leaves linear-oblong. Flowers inconspicuous, solitary in the upper axils. Sepals and petals mostly 3. Staminate flowe
An illustrated flora of the 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 ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 Genus CROWBERRY FAMILY. 479 I. EMPETRUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 1022. 1753. Depressed or spreading herbaceous shrubs, freely branching, dioecious or monoecious, the branches usually densely leafy, the leaves linear-oblong. Flowers inconspicuous, solitary in the upper axils. Sepals and petals mostly 3. Staminate flowers with 3 stamens, the anthers introrse. Pistillate flowers with a globose 6-9-celled ovary, and a short thick style with 6-9-toothed segments. Drupe black to red, containing 6-9 nutlets. [Greek, on rocks, refer- ring to the growth of these plants in rocky places.] Two known species, the following typical one, and C. rubrum of southern South America. I. Empetrum nigrum L. Black Crowberry. Heathberry. Fig. 2773. Empelrum nigrum L. Sp. PI. 1022. 17S3. Glabrous, or the young shoots and leaves pubescent, usually much branch- ed, the branches diffusely spreading, 2'-lo' long. Leaves crowded, dark green, linear-oblong, thick, obtuse, 2'- 3*' long, about ¥ wide, the strongly revoliite margins roughish; flowers very small, purplish ;_stamens exserted; drupe black, purple or red, 2'-3' in diameter. In rocky places, Greenland to Alaska, south to the coast of Maine, the higher mountains of Xew England and northern New York. Michigan and California. Also in Europe and Asia. Crake-berry. Black- berried heath. Wire-ling. Crow-pea. Monox-heather. Heath. Hog-cranberry. Crowberry. Curlew-berry. Grows in dense beds; the fruit much eaten by arctic birds. Summer. 2. COREMA Don, Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 15: 63. 1826-27. [Oakesi.\ Tuckerm. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. i: 445. 1842.] Low, much branched shrubs, with narrowly linear leaves crowded on the branches, and small dioecious or polygamous flower
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