. Rocky Mountain flowers : an illustrated guide for plant-lovers and plant-users. Sepals 4-5, united at base, petals 4-5, white or pink, united, stamens 8-10,included, ovary 4-10-celled, style slender, fruit a drupe, with 4-10 seed-likenutlets coherent into a solid stone; flowers nodding, stalked, in terminalracemes, panicles or clusters; leaves alternate, petioled, firm, ; creeping creeping; leaves oblong to spatulate, 1-3 cm. long; flowers 7-10 mm. long A. uia-ursi Cassiope Don 1834 Cassiope 1 Named for Cassiope) PI. 15, fig. 5. Sepals 4-5, petal- 4-5, white
. Rocky Mountain flowers : an illustrated guide for plant-lovers and plant-users. Sepals 4-5, united at base, petals 4-5, white or pink, united, stamens 8-10,included, ovary 4-10-celled, style slender, fruit a drupe, with 4-10 seed-likenutlets coherent into a solid stone; flowers nodding, stalked, in terminalracemes, panicles or clusters; leaves alternate, petioled, firm, ; creeping creeping; leaves oblong to spatulate, 1-3 cm. long; flowers 7-10 mm. long A. uia-ursi Cassiope Don 1834 Cassiope 1 Named for Cassiope) PI. 15, fig. 5. Sepals 4-5, petal- 4-5, white or pink, united, stamens 8-10, included, ovary 4-5-celled. style 1. stigma, single, capsule globose or ovoid, 4-5- valved, each valve 2-cleft at the apex ; flowers with stalks, solitary, nodding. PLATE 15 HEATHS AND BLUEBERRIESHEATH FAMILY 1. Menziesia ferruginea 2. Kalmia glauca 3. Ledum glandulosum: Labrador Tea 4. Phyllodoce empetriformis: Mountain Heath 5. Cassiope hypnoides 6. Gaultheria humifusa BLUEBERRY FAMILY 7 8. Vaccinium myrtillus: Blueberry9 Vaccinium occidentale. 86 HEATH ORDER terminal or axillary; leaves small, sessile, densely crowded, entire; low tufted branching heath-like evergreen shrubs. Stems tufted, moss-like, 1-5 in. high; leaves 2-5 mm. long; flowers 6-8 mm. wide C. hypnoides Gaultheria Linne 1753 (Named for Gaultier, a Canadian botanist) PL 15, fig. 6. Sepals 5, petals 5, white, red or pink, united into an urn- or bell-shaped corolla, stamens 10, included, stigma obtuse, entire, ovary 5-celled,5-lobed, calyx becoming fleshy and at length surrounding the capsule, form-ing a berry-like fruit; flowers axillary, solitary or in racemes; leaves alter-nate, leathery, persistent, evergreen; creeping, flower branches 1-4 in. high ; leaves oval to roundish, 12-15 mm. long G. humifusa Kalmia Linne 1753 Kalmia (Named for Kalm, a Swedish botanist) PL 15, fig. 2. Sepals 5, petals 5, lilac-purple, united into a saucer-shaped corolla,stamens 10, shorter
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