. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. MBI0ALE8. 509 The EricinesB are doubtless to be regarded as the central or main group, from which the others have diverged. In the diagram the dis- tinguishing characters which are given for Ericineae may be regarded as typical for tlie order, and under each of the other sub-orders are given the exceptional characters, or more properly, the modifications of the original ordinal characters. Sub-Order Ericinem.—About 1000 species of shrubs, many evergreen. Many are j.^^^ ,h7stbation8 of Ebioa cinerea. of great beauty, and are extensively g
. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. MBI0ALE8. 509 The EricinesB are doubtless to be regarded as the central or main group, from which the others have diverged. In the diagram the dis- tinguishing characters which are given for Ericineae may be regarded as typical for tlie order, and under each of the other sub-orders are given the exceptional characters, or more properly, the modifications of the original ordinal characters. Sub-Order Ericinem.—About 1000 species of shrubs, many evergreen. Many are j.^^^ ,h7stbation8 of Ebioa cinerea. of great beauty, and are extensively grown as ornaments ; others are good-sized trees, and furnish valuable tim- ber. (Figs. 436-9.) Arbutus Menziesii, the MadroSa of the Pa- cific coast of the Unit- ed States, is an ever- green tree twenty-four to thirty metres (80 to 100 ft.) in height. Its hard wood is useful in furniture-making. Aretostaphylos pun- gens and A. glauca are large evergreen shrubs of California, which bear the name of Man- zanita. The heavy, dark-colored, and fine- grained wood is used in turnery and furniture- making. The berries are eaten by grizzly bears. A. Uva-ursi, the Bearberry of the colder portions of North America, Europe, and Asia, bears bitter and astringent leaves, which are officinal. Calluna wilgans, the Common Heath of Central and Northern Europe, is a low, straggling evergreen under-shrub. Its stems are made into brooms, and its flowers aflTord an abundance of excellent honey. It occurs in a few scattered localities in Massachusetts, Maine, Nova Scotia, and northward, but it is doubtful whether It is really indigenous to any part of tLe United Fio. 438. Fie. 439. Fig. 436.—Jflowering 6 Fig. 437.—Section of flower. Magnified. Fig. 438.—Diagram of flower. Fig. 439.—Section of ovary. 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
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